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KB Started conversation Jul 4, 2015
The blood is up in me now. The hackles are roused. The pike will be coming out of the thatch. There'll be whigs on the green.
I just heard a free-stater telling a group of American tourists that the beer is better in County Louth than in County Down. 
That is a lot of rubbish up with which I will not put.
I hereby challenge any Louth man, who wishes to defend this notion, to a twelve-round bare-knuckle bout on neutral ground - the boundary line in Carlingford Lough. Then we'll see if you really can walk on water. 
[All of the above should be taken with a large dose of 
. I have been reading rather a lot of Myles na gCopaleen of late and I think the boundaries are blurring.]
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There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho Posted Jul 4, 2015
I'd have thought a drinking contest, rather than fisticuffs, would be more apropos 
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Jul 4, 2015
Yeah, pick a neutral beer. 
(And I LIKED that prose, good job.)
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jul 4, 2015
I'm waiting for them to develop a beer that tastes like coffee. 
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Bald Bloke Posted Jul 4, 2015
You're wish is our command...
http://www.foodrepublic.com/2013/08/14/10-coffee-beers-that-pull-serious-double-duty/
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KB Posted Jul 4, 2015
Yesterday they had in the bar beer infused with black tea, bergamot oil, and a couple of mad other things I can't remember. I never tried it. I had something more...normal.
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KB Posted Jul 4, 2015
Ah, here's what it was http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/by-the-horns-old-smoke-english-tea-bitter/334345/
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KB Posted Jul 4, 2015
This thread is turning into Beer Quest too, now - oh well, you can never have too many beer quests.
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Bald Bloke Posted Jul 5, 2015
By the Horns Brewery is only about a mile or so from me, behind Wimbledon Dog track in Summerstown, That Tea beer is a bit of an acquired taste but not unpleasant.
I prefer my 
plain Indian / Sri Lankan in a mug with a splash of milk 
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Gnomon - time to move on Posted Jul 5, 2015
Perhaps it just tastes better if you drink it south of the border.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jul 5, 2015
Regardless, it goes south of my border pretty quickly. 
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KB Posted Jul 5, 2015
Actually in my experience, beer tastes best in the south-west. But I don't know if that's actually anything to do with the beer, I think it might just be because the south-west tends to make me feel so chilled out and mellow when I'm there. 
Steak is seems tenderest there, too.
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- 1: KB (Jul 4, 2015)
- 2: There is only one thing worse than being Gosho, and that is not being Gosho (Jul 4, 2015)
- 3: Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor (Jul 4, 2015)
- 4: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Jul 4, 2015)
- 5: Bald Bloke (Jul 4, 2015)
- 6: KB (Jul 4, 2015)
- 7: KB (Jul 4, 2015)
- 8: KB (Jul 4, 2015)
- 9: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Jul 4, 2015)
- 10: Bald Bloke (Jul 5, 2015)
- 11: Gnomon - time to move on (Jul 5, 2015)
- 12: paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant (Jul 5, 2015)
- 13: KB (Jul 5, 2015)
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