Posted in Ireland, UK, food, travel, tagged cod, Ulster on May 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A fairly inventive name for a chippy!
From the menu:
Ian Paisley
bacon, cheese, salad and an onion ring & any sauce!
Gerry Adams
bacon, cheese, salad & any sauce
Looking at the photos, the salad seems to consist of a twig of paisley parsley, but that’s hardly the main thing!
They say on their web site they plan to make t-shirts. I [...]
Posted in Ireland, beer, beer marketing on April 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Diageo Ireland are very proud of their new innovations – Budweiser Ice Cold and Budweiser Aluminium. Their Brand Manager for something is particularly fond of the aluminium-coated bottle, which will only be available for drinkers who really deserve it.
Consumers in these outlets are actively seeking cutting-edge premium products with a truly refreshing taste and temperature, [...]
Posted in Ireland, beer, beer books, beer history, beer marketing, brewing, travel, tagged Dublin, Guinness, Irish beer, stout on March 16, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Yet another American hack has tried to give a potted history of porter. Let’s just open up for rebuttals for my more scholarly inclined fellow beer bloggers to this:
The credit for inventing porter ordinarily goes to Ralph Harwood of the Bell Brew house in Shoreditch, who developed it around 1722. Before that, En gland’s best- [...]
Posted in Ireland, beer, beer marketing, craft beer, tagged beer on December 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It is still Christmas, and if you haven’t read the Beer Nuts wonderful tale of shame and redemption, it’s about time.
Posted in Ireland, Prague, beer, beer blogs, pubs, travel on May 29, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’m going to Prague next month. Oh, you’ll sure say. You mean going back to Prague? As a beer hound you must have been there before?
Yes, I’ve been there, but that was way back. 1988. I won’t bore you with the endless hours of haggling with our totalitarian hosts, nor with the long discussion we [...]
Posted in Ireland, beer, craft beer, travel on May 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’m terribly sorry, but there is a life outside the blogsphere intruding on my time and priorities. In the meantime, I would like to proclaim the first floor beer hall of the Bull and Castle, Christ Church, Dublin, as the most photo-friendly pub on the planet.
Posted in England, Ireland, UK, beer, beer marketing, travel on May 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
By Herschell Hershey. From the Londonist.
Posted in Ireland, beer, pubs, travel on May 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I learned a new word when in Dublin. Well, two if you count the fact that a hooker is a fishing vessel.
The word is shebeen. There was media coverage about a splendid excample, and it was easy to understand what it was all about. I looked it up in wikipedia anyway:
Chiefly in Ireland, Scotland, South [...]
Posted in Ireland, beer, beer blogs, craft beer, pubs, travel on April 25, 2008 | 9 Comments »
It had to happen sooner or later. I travel a lot, and while I do not actively seek out the seedy parts of town, I sometimes stumble across them. I booked a Brussels hotel on the web focusing on the rate and proximity to the centre. It was only when I returned there in the [...]
Posted in Ireland, beer, beer blogs, brewing, craft beer, pubs, travel on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When I was told I had a business meeting in Dublin, I was not hard to convince. There are direct flights, the taxi drivers are friendly, there are good beers to be had if you know where to find them.
Since my last visit two years ago, it seems the micro movement has evolved further, and [...]
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