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So, I had a few beers in Dublin centre last night (I did some QC evaluation on Hooker in the Porterhouse Central and the B&C). In the P'house Central, I noticed they have a new printed beer/wine menu entitled "SIPS". I suppose that "sipping" instead of "chugging" is to be encouraged, especially with stronger brews. As I browsed the menu, I struck by the amount of mediocre beers stocked from around the world (Tiger, Tsingtao, Brahma, and mediocre brews from Canada and Australia etc.) - sad but understandable. Also, they listed Trappist Rochfort under the heading Rocheford, and later as Rochford 8 and Rochford 10. (Didn't Rochford have some minor hits in the 80s?). Does someone not proof read these things?

It wa sinteresting to have a beer or two and observe the punters in this bar. It's a bit of a culture clash thing, typified by these two guys drinking Budweiser Budvar, but from the bottle. Ah well!

I'm amused by the inclusion in their menu of an article which highlights the "evils" of brewing magnate Joseph Coors (described as "far right to Atilla the Hun"), perhaps in an attempt to paint the big macro brewers as the enemy. All very laudable until you look behind the bar and see bottles of Coors Light sitting in the fridge. A triumph of head over heart perhaps?

"DrJohn":3gmyypo3 wrote: Does someone not proof read these things?[/quote:3gmyypo3]Slightly OT, my favourite thing ever written on a drinks menu was on the old Luigi Malone's one where the editor had half-remembered a really cool quotation but couldn't be arsed looking it up. It said, contrary to Bigears's sig,[quote:3gmyypo3]I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a lobotomy behind me -- Tom Waits[/quote:3gmyypo3]Brilliant.

"bigears":3gmyypo3 wrote: All very laudable until you look behind the bar and see bottles of Coors Light sitting in the fridge. A triumph of head over heart perhaps?[/quote:3gmyypo3]It's weirdly bi-polar where it says BUL Coors Light is terrible rubbish, and on the other side of the page how much a bottle costs.

Anyway, yes: new Porterhouse menu is a terrible thing and they should know better. /pontification

Where do you begin with the Porterhouse?

I'll start by listing all the good things.
1.They stock some very nice beers
2.eh....... Some of the beers which they brew can be excellent some of the time.

I'll work on the negatives when I have a few weeks' spare time.

"TheBeerNut":102gikpu wrote:

"bigears":102gikpu wrote: All very laudable until you look behind the bar and see bottles of Coors Light sitting in the fridge. A triumph of head over heart perhaps?[/quote:102gikpu]It's weirdly bi-polar where it says BUL Coors Light is terrible rubbish, and on the other side of the page how much a bottle costs.[/quote:102gikpu]

I'm not sure there's anything so terrible about having Coors Light behind the bar.

The ladies seem to like it, the ol' dieting mania has taken hold and there's people who won't touch anything that isn't fat free, calorie reduced, carbo free, taste free. There's even nutters out there who go to the gym, (personally I think anyone who hands over gym membership fees should be sectioned.)

You might as well face up to the fact that there's people out there who react like the they've been offered a pint of donkey sperm to drink if they haven't seen the name in countless advertisements. If they want to go to the likes of the Porterhouse and overpay for Coors Light, I for one, commend the Porterhouse for charging them accordingly.

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