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Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 4:00 pm
by Dave_L
You'd better be quick guys, Asda have some seriously cheap deals on at the moment.....
£10 for 1 box, £16 for 2 or £20 for 3.
In the offer
20 cans of Carlsberg
18 cans of Fosters
20 bottles of 1664
20 bottles of Stella
18 cans of Strongbow
18 cans of John Smiths
18 cans of Boddingtons
Result! I'm going back later to stock up for the summer months - there are limits to what quantities you can buy in one visit.
Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 4:52 pm
by Tony McC
I'm trying to keep off the ale in a forlorn attempt to lose weight so I can see my toes again, and get the go ahead for another heart op. This sort of offer from Asda is, quite frankly, just NOT helping! 
Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 5:06 pm
by seanandruby
why is it never guinness, thars all i drink. 
Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 5:18 pm
by Tony McC
I never used to drink Guinness on this side of the water, as it was never as good as the genuine article, but since they stopped churning out that muck from Park Royal, and brewed everything back in Dublin, I've started to have the odd pint or four, which is disastrous for my alleged diet.
Still not mad keen on tins, though.
Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 6:59 pm
by seanandruby
That's true, i find the G in Dublin far superior. what i couldn't drink at the end of a session i would pour over meself, feck wasting it a? 
. Don't drink much now tho so a can a day does the trick, couldn't trust meself having one pint of draught in the boozer.
Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 7:25 pm
by Dave_L
Have I made a pig of myself?
Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 7:26 pm
by lutonlagerlout
was in dublin last may and drinking in the patriot pub opposite kilmainham jail.
anyway i remarked to the landlord that although we were getting irish guiness in luton his tasted far superior
he then told me that he bought his guiness from nigeria as the irish stuff was more expensive!!
anyway he may have been pulling my leg but i found this
makes you wonder
LLL ???
Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 7:27 pm
by lutonlagerlout
party round yours tomorrow dave,shall i bring a cordless drill?
cheers LLL 
Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 7:31 pm
by Dave_L
lutonlagerlout wrote:party round yours tomorrow dave,shall i bring a cordless drill?
cheers LLL
Please do Tony oh and please bring your string line, we might need it after a few!!!! 
Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 9:17 am
by squire
lutonlagerlout wrote:was in dublin last may and drinking in the patriot pub opposite kilmainham jail.
anyway i remarked to the landlord that although we were getting irish guiness in luton his tasted far superior
he then told me that he bought his guiness from nigeria as the irish stuff was more expensive!!
anyway he may have been pulling my leg but i found this
makes you wonder
LLL ???
LOL, ROFL, around here that is called "Dublin Wit".
Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 4:14 pm
by lutonlagerlout
"Dublin Wit"
does that rhyme with bulls**t?? by any chance?
funny thing was i had only had 2 pints ,then the landlord bought me one and said tell yer mates
i can handle all the tall tales in the world, for free guiness
still doesn't make sense that it tastes loads better in Dublin ,when its supposed to be the same drink???
LLL
Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 5:10 pm
by squire
lutonlagerlout wrote:"Dublin Wit"
does that rhyme with bulls**t?? by any chance?
Lets just say he say you coming. :;):
I always heard that Guinness does not travel well. That pub is about 500m from the brewery so by that logic the pint should have been excellent.
I could never stand the stuff when I lived across the pond but that was 15 years ago so it might have improved.
The ironic thing is that there is a little small pub, not far from The Patriot (across road from Kilmainham Garda Station) that in my humble opinion serve the best pint of black stuff in Ireland. You get a late pint too 'cos all the guards drink in there after their shift
Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 9:02 pm
by lutonlagerlout
i think the travel may have summat to do with it,when i went on holiday with my Irish in laws,they all started drinking Carling
when i asked why Carling, when you are all guiness men, and they serve it here ,they replied "look around? who is drinking guiness here? no-one,it has to have a swift turnover to be any good" which sounds about right because the only 2 pubs in Luton that serve it right ,every tom dick and harry in them drinks guiness.
FTR the guiness in Wetherspoons outlets is always abysmal
cheers LLL
Posted: Tue May 29, 2007 10:24 pm
by Dave_L
Well after a hard day [of work] at home, getting all those jobs done etc, I'm enjoying a few beers from my stash!
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 10:50 am
by bobhughes
Back in the 60s I worked in a factory in Park Royal. We used to convince the Irish labourers there that the tankers fetched Liffey water for the brewery because the local stuff was no good.
They used to do tours of the brewery but no one could remember much about them because of the free samples at the end.
Before that I was a cellerman in the pub on Wembley High Street. We used to shift 300 dozen bottles of the black stuff every week
