Cat(h) wrote:
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> You are, I believe, quite right. Fact is, most Irish people I know
> have *their* drink when ordering in the pub and rarely deviate from
> it. A Guinness drinker is unlikely to drink anything else, except in
> Summer, because as we all know, Irish Summers are so stiffling that
> you could not possibly drink somethign as substantial and warming as
> stout.
> You don't go to the pub to sample new things, you go to the pub for
> whatever "yours" is.
> If you want truly goddawful stuff, though, it is hard to beat
> something called Bramah (sounds terribly Indian**, but if memory
> serves, it is even more exotically Brazillian), available in some
> offies and other retailers
> **I've since learned that Joseph Bramah invented some contraption to
> pump beer as draught, back in the 18th century some time.
It didn't agree with me at all.
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J/
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