No more English Guinness

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Park Royal Brewery to close, St James's Gate to export to the UK.

TS: hundreds out of work Vs our young men and women in the land of the Sassenachs being able to get a decent pint.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, on closer reading (IE reading) it's only 90 jobs. Still, those poor alcoholic robot taste-testers, adrift on the robot streets of robot London.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:07 (twenty-two years ago)

They'll be joining ILX soon enough.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:09 (twenty-two years ago)

TOP GUINNESS DRINKERS
UK
Ireland
Nigeria
US
Cameroon

Thank god we're still above Cameroon. U-S-A!!!! U-S-A!!!!

― Skottie, Friday, 16 April 2004 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Cameroon? What the fuck?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Next to Nigeria, innit.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 16 April 2004 00:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, we drink the St. James Gate stuff in Vermont. It's good enough for us. But people getting down-sized sucks. I know.

So this weekend, I will drink only Kool-Aid as a gesture of solidarity.

― jim wentworth (wench), Friday, 16 April 2004 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I assume the stats are total volume of Guinness drunk. Total Guinness drunk per capita would be more interesting.

My mother went to Dublin in the sixties and was told that Guinness was made using water from the Liffey. Looking in the river, Guinness suddenly seemed very unappetising (mebbe they've cleaned it up since).

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 16 April 2004 06:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Nigerian Guinness is fucking fantastic, it's even stronger than the export stuff. Like drinking an alcoholic marmite/treacle mix.

Shame to see any brewery close especially one that produces a drink that London invented. There's precious little stout and porter produced in London anymore. (Youngs a notable survivor)

― Ed (dali), Friday, 16 April 2004 07:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, but it is STRAINED THROUGH THE SKIN OF A FISH. Think of the poor fishes! Think of the poor fish allergic people who go funny if they drink Guinness! Good to get it out of London. Yes.

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 16 April 2004 07:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Weren't they talkingfor a while of closing St James Gate? The difference between British and Irish Guinness doesn't seem as great as it once did, to me. The Dublin-brewed stuff used to be unpasteurised, didn't it?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 16 April 2004 07:26 (twenty-two years ago)

James Joyce's favourite whiskey was Jameson's (i think) becuase it was made from the water from the liffey, litter mud and all...

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 16 April 2004 07:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never been to Dublin but I'm imagining that the Liffey is probably about as drinkable as the Genessee River. (And they still make beer out of that!)

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 16 April 2004 07:53 (twenty-two years ago)

all these things have to be boiled in order to make the drink, so no germs'll be there. so nae worries, like.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Friday, 16 April 2004 08:10 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not the germs in the Gennesse River, it's the industrial waste. No amount of boiling gets rid of PCB or nuclear waste!

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 16 April 2004 08:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Does this mean Irish Londoners can stop fucking whining about how much better the Guinness is in Ireland? Of course not.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 16 April 2004 08:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I had a whole bottle of Nigerian Guinness at a card game at the weekend. I thought it would kill me. Fine in girly little shots before an AFC Wimbledon game, lethal in larger doses.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 16 April 2004 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Guinness is no longer made with Liffey water, by the way.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 16 April 2004 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Good, coz I hear the Liffey has random Thom Yorkes floating in it!

― Super-Kate (kate), Friday, 16 April 2004 08:19 (twenty-two years ago)

The Liffey is filthy! I wouldn't cry into it let alone drink something made from it.

I went on a sort of Guinness crawl with my friend Mark from London there last week, actually here last week but anyway, he definitely was of the opinion that the Guinness is still a good bit better. I think it's to do with taps and things aswell cos there are pubs here where it's terrible aswell, obviously.

The Long Hall seems to be the best, I think Tim H was there when he visited before but I forget if he had a Guinness.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 16 April 2004 09:09 (twenty-two years ago)

the Gennesse can't be worse than the Cuyahoga.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 16 April 2004 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Nigerian Guinness with Ribena, mmmmmmmm.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 16 April 2004 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)

you silly twisted girl, you.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 16 April 2004 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Thousands of Africans can't be wrong.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Also goths like it!

http://www.netgoth.org.uk/gothmap/examine.php?person=12349

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:45 (twenty-two years ago)

How is that a defence???

― robster (robster), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:46 (twenty-two years ago)

But Guinness & Black is made with regular Guinness!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Favourite hangouts: My workshop, where I make swords, axes, muskets, and cannon

I don't care about defence anymore. Netgoth is distracting me from rational thought.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

*looks at link*

Oh. My. God.

Does the Gothfynder General know of this?

― robster (robster), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

he's on a plane to the true home of Nu-Goth, where he aims to eradicate the sad sad breed

― chris (chris), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

It is a ph34rsome thing indeed, is that site.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 16 April 2004 12:57 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.netgoth.org.uk/gothmap/examine.php?person=3166

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Aw maaaaaaaaaaan!

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

:)))))))

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

(Hahaha Ricardo may be interested to know that it is very simple and v hilarious to pull up a profile for BtG on that site!!)

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

So it is, so I said, so I did!

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

West Yorkshire Net.goths (369)

I PH34R.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

that's their natural habitat

― chris (chris), Friday, 16 April 2004 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

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