Guinness

[Ken L]

Guinness production in the UK appears to have stopped and it's now being imported from Dublin.

The Irish stuff appears to be lighter bodied and distictly dark brown instead of black. I may be haled as a heretick for saying this but I reckon a well kept pint of English Guinness was better than the stuff we've been getting fron Ireland for the last couple of weeks.

[DavyR]

They're probably importing inferior stuff. How else would they stop Irishmen claiming that Irish Guinness was so much better than English?

[DavyR]

DavyR:

They're probably exporting inferior stuff. How else would they stop Irishmen claiming that Irish Guinness was so much better than English?

[DavyR]

Whoops! Thought I'd edited it, not replied...

[DavyR]

Probably the excitement of becoming a Super-Poster (I've just noticed).

[John Ellison]

When I got slaughtered at chess the other day, we'd begun the day at Saltaire beer festival.

The chess hustler's wife, declared that all the decent stuff had gone by the time we got there.

The very first barrel I clapped eyes on was Ossett brewery's 'Hercules'. We've been searching for that one for three years. Our regular landlady told us it must have been a special, the type they do for festivals such as this. Well, it was 6% and the last time we had it, My Joan, landed flat on her Arsenal, on the bus on the way home. The driver asked if she was ok. I told him, that after what we'd been drinking, it was a wonder I was not on the floor as well. Superb!