Saturday, March 17, 2012

Stout Day!

I posted over at my other, main blog about St. Patrick's Day, and while some of it's about whiskey, there's a good chunk about how this is a huge session beer day. People suck down dry Irish stouts of various manufacture -- mostly Guinness -- and they're almost all under 4.5%. It's a good day for session beer, and I should have done more to point that out. I have to think about this stuff!

Hmmm...maybe April 5th -- 4.5 -- as Session Beer Day?

4 comments:

  1. To get the good Irish stuff on draught you have to go to a pub, probably an "Irish" pub, which is the very last place to be on St Pat's. On any other day, sure, preferably some place that has Beamish & Murphy's as well (both of which I prefer to Guinness).

    If you ever need a blog topic, how about a definitive, evidence-based distinction between stout and porter?

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    1. Well, he could either make one up or accept that there isn't one!

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  2. The Victory Donnybrook and Sly Fox O'Reilly's I'd cheerfully put up against "the good Irish stuff," so I'm good to go.

    And I'd sooner sit on a rattlesnake than write about the distinction between stout and porter. I'll leave that to Pattinson and Cornell.

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  3. Could we get Troegs to send an extra-large shipment of their recent Scratch mild?

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