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Ireland -- Added
Posted by Fred Waltman on 2013-02-27 14:43:00
I said that imports from England were filling the void by there being not enough Irish beers -- I should have said in addition to American craft beers. Sierra Nevada was all over the place -- one pub had four different SN beers on tap: Daught Ale, Celebration, Torpedo IPA and one other (forget which one). There was also Anderson Valley (Boont Amber and Imperial IPA) and lots of Dogfish Head, Flying Dog and Rogue in bottles (many more I'm sure) Two saddest things I saw: 1) An Irishman comes into the Porterhouse and asks for the closest beer to Heineken. 2) An Irishman comes into the Brew Dock and asks for Heineken. When told that didn't have it but that they had some good light ales, he asks for a Guinness. When told they didn't have that but they had two Irish stouts (theirs -- Galway Bay Brewery and Porterhouse Plain) he angrily stomped out. I told the bartender, "Who goes into a butcher shop and orders vegetarian?" That being said I've seen the same thing dozens (hundreds?) of times in the US.
 
Followups:
                   Ireland -- Added by barryriley on  2013-02-28 06:08:38
                     Ireland -- Added by Mark Andersen on  2013-02-28 06:52:07
                     Beamish Murphy's by Nick B. on  2013-02-28 07:05:04
                       OT: Beamish Murphy's by barryriley on  2013-03-01 03:54:08
                     Galway by Fred Waltman on  2013-03-01 08:01:47
                       Galway by barryriley on  2013-03-02 03:53:12
                         Galway by Fred Waltman on  2013-03-02 07:22:08
                           Galway by barryriley on  2013-03-03 03:45:15
                             Cask Ales in Ireland by Fred Waltman on  2013-03-03 06:37:44
                               Cask Ales in Ireland by barryriley on  2013-03-04 01:37:11
                                 Cask Ales in Ireland by Mark Andersen on  2013-03-04 06:40:14
                                   Cask Ales in Ireland by Mark Andersen on  2013-03-04 06:49:39
                                 Cask Ales in Ireland by Fred Waltman on  2013-03-04 07:04:19
                                     Cask Ales in Ireland by barryriley on  2013-03-04 08:59:25
                                   Cask Ales in Ireland by barryriley on  2013-03-04 09:20:30
                                       Cask Ales in Ireland by Mark Andersen on  2013-03-04 09:54:52
                                         Cask Ales in Ireland by Mark Andersen on  2013-03-04 10:21:03
                                           Cask Ales in Ireland by Nick B. on  2013-03-04 23:27:13
                                     Cask Ales in Ireland by barryriley on  2013-03-05 06:38:54
                                       Cask Ales in Ireland by Mark Andersen on  2013-03-05 07:09:41
                                         Cask Ales in Ireland by barryriley on  2013-03-05 08:14:57
                                           Cask Ales in Ireland by Mark Andersen on  2013-03-05 12:15:39
                                         Cask Ales in Ireland by Nick B. on  2013-03-06 01:24:44