UK is running short of Guinness

Brookswood

Brookswood

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Stop worrying about trivial matters like taxes, wars, spying, immigration, Prince Harry, and other minor irritants. The UK is facing a major crisis. There is a shortage of Guinness this holiday season.

Pubs up and down the U.K. say they are running low on Guinness after a surge in demand that caught the beer’s brewer off guard. The timing couldn’t be worse, with millions across the country heading to Christmas parties and other gatherings as the festive season here kicks into high gear.
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I suspect sabotage by foreign agents trying to stir up anger in the UK population. Or perhaps French wine makers are trying to force the sale of more wine to give their business a boost. In the meantime try a Murphy’s.
Guinness rival Murphy’s— owned by Heineken—is getting a boost from the shortages. At the Lamb, a pub in north London, a handwritten Murphy’s sign was stuck on the Guinness tap. The pub is also offering drinkers Eccles stout, made by an east London brewery.
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Or maybe the USA could send a load of Bud Lite to the UK. :eek:
 

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Gotta go stock up on Guinness!! Love it with fish and chips.

I do a regular run to Colorado...they can't get Kilt Lifter in Colorado, both my brother in laws like it. Made in Arizona.
 
I can't stand Guinness or any other stout .. I like a good 'hoppy' English real ale, and this is one of the things I miss in Scotland.
However, rescue is at hand in the form of either 'Old Jock' or Hopo 6.2 IPA. If I'm making batter for fish and chips, I use 'Hobgoblin' from the Wychwood brewery.

Where I lived in England, there was a great family owned brewery - George Gale and Co. This produced one of the best ales that you could buy. The story goes....... At a drinks convention, Mr Gale went to the bar along with a representative from Budweiser and one from Coors.

The man from Budweiser ordered a pint of Bud. The man from Coors ordered a pint of Coors and George Gale ordered a cup of tea. As he put it, 'If you guys aren't drinking beer, then neither will I'.
 
Capt Lightning said:
I can't stand Guinness or any other stout .. I like a good 'hoppy' English real ale, and this is one of the things I miss in Scotland.
However, rescue is at hand in the form of either 'Old Jock' or Hopo 6.2 IPA. If I'm making batter for fish and chips, I use 'Hobgoblin' from the Wychwood brewery.
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Have you ever had the Bishops Finger?
 
Capt Lightning said:
The man from Budweiser ordered a pint of Bud. The man from Coors ordered a pint of Coors and George Gale ordered a cup of tea. As he put it, 'If you guys aren't drinking beer, then neither will I'.
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I tried a Budweizer once, to try to understand what the fuss was all about. My taste buds found it difficult to find anything in it that resembled anything to do with taste. It seemed heavily carbonated though.

I then shook it up several times to release the carbonation, and let it stand for a while. I got the impression that any little taste it originally had was coming from the carbonation. Without the carbonation, it seemed as though I was drinking lightly coloured water.
 
No problem for me. It's just slightly creamy bland black stuff. Give me a proper Imperial Stout at over 8% - or even better a thick hazy double NEIPA :)
 
Slightly off topic (although maybe inot :unsure: ) but there's another huge problem for UK/Ireland communications, whether trade or individual journeys. The port of Holyhead suffered storm damage a couple of weeks ago and apparently (according to BBC news yesterday) is unlikely to reopen before mid January. It's UK's busiest port after Dover so it's a massive problem for British haulage firms.
 
I tended bar for awhile after college. Guinness stout was quite popular. I did not like it at all, but the tap next to it was something called Harp, Irish I think. I like that a lot.
 
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Harp is a lager made by Guinness. The Guinness logo is a harp :)
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That's what I thought, because the both came in identical 2 gal mini kegs, that required their own special taps, like it was one company. We had to tap new kegs of Guinness and Harp, more than that Budweiser and other local brands, because the Harp kegs were about a 10th of the size, and we did sell a lot of the stuff.
 
Magna-Carta said:
I tried a Budweizer once, to try to understand what the fuss was all about. My taste buds found it difficult to find anything in it that resembled anything to do with taste. It seemed heavily carbonated though.

I then shook it up several times to release the carbonation, and let it stand for a while. I got the impression that any little taste it originally had was coming from the carbonation. Without the carbonation, it seemed as though I was drinking lightly coloured water.
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And I know it's hard to believe, but they do use hops. You probably know the parent brewery is Belgian, but it's an American beer, introduced here sometime in the 1800s by a guy named Conrad. I don't remember his 1st name. It wasn't until over 100yrs later that Americans started getting a taste for real beers.
 
[a-bit off topic] But how are the DUI laws in the UK ?

Over here [USA] the BAC ratings are about the same , going back for some time now .08 limit . But the police are really head-hunting in some areas , and they just LUV first-timers.

Here in my state we have two laws, DUI [driving under the influence] and DWI [driving while intoxicated] . It all means that if they want ya, they got ya.

A person is under the influence after just a half a glass of wine, intoxicated is the up charge .08 or higher.
 

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