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James, Give the bottled Black Rock Stout another try; maybe from another offie that goes through it quicker.

The very first bottle I had of Black Rock Stout at the Salthouse in Galway is one of my happiest beery memories in Ireland. (Galway on a hot sunny day is almost impossible to beat, as is fresh bottled Black Rock Stout; together they're even better.) <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->

This is literally the first complaint I've ever heard about Black Rock stout; definitely give it another go.
(Apart from my own complaint that the bottle caps might be rusty months ago because the bottles are capped on foam and when a little bit of stout dries under the cap it looks sort of like rust when you open the bottle. -Oops! My bad!)


Adam

One change I'd make to Black Rock is put it in pint bottles. A stout from the South East in anything other than pint bottles just aint right, because without them we can't say: "A large bottle of Black Rock off the coooooler boy, and a Ritz for the lack" <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

&amp;quot;Tube&amp;quot;:3rpik2xg wrote: One change I'd make to Black Rock is put it in pint bottles. A stout from the South East in anything other than pint bottles just aint right, because without them we can't say: "A large bottle of Black Rock off the coooooler boy, and a Ritz for the lack" <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->[/quote:3rpik2xg]

I'm going to need a translation on this one. (I know; after almost 5 years you'd think I wouldn't need any more translations.)



Adam

&amp;quot;Biertourist&amp;quot;:1wd8x0qw wrote: "A large bottle of Black Rock off the coooooler boy, and a Ritz for the lack"

I'm going to need a translation on this one. (I know; after almost 5 years you'd think I wouldn't need any more translations.) [/quote:1wd8x0qw]

This is an approximation of Waterford slang.

A large bottle means a pint bottle of usually Guinness stout if another brand is not specified. Waterford is one of the few places where the pint bottle is still popular. A bottle off de cooler (usually extended to the nasal coooooler in the local city accent) is one of the ways it can be served - from a chiled cabinet, the other being "off de shelf" although some places will also serve it "off the (usually stone) floor" or "out of the crate" (usually fresh from the cold room) providing the punter with 4 different temps of bottle. Mount Sion GAA club is rumoured to have 5 temps of large bottle utilising 2 chillers at different temps.
Boy is used as punctuation at the end of a sentence when addressing a male.
Ritz is a dry perry once popular with Irish females (or in Waterford slang the lacks) in the eighties/nineties therefore....
A pint bottle of Black Rock my good man and I believe my girlfriend will have a bottle of Ritz

I feel much better considering it took an entire paragraph of explanation to translate that one sentence.

Thanks guys. I don't think I could even attempt to order one like a local but I DO like multiple temp options being available.


Adam

&amp;quot;Lugh Longhand&amp;quot;:3twmcfgp wrote:

&amp;quot;Biertourist&amp;quot;:3twmcfgp wrote: "A large bottle of Black Rock off the coooooler boy, and a Ritz for the lack"

I'm going to need a translation on this one. (I know; after almost 5 years you'd think I wouldn't need any more translations.) [/quote:3twmcfgp]

This is an approximation of Waterford slang.

A large bottle means a pint bottle of usually Guinness stout if another brand is not specified. Waterford is one of the few places where the pint bottle is still popular. A bottle off de cooler (usually extended to the nasal coooooler in the local city accent) is one of the ways it can be served - from a chiled cabinet, the other being "off de shelf" although some places will also serve it "off the (usually stone) floor" or "out of the crate" (usually fresh from the cold room) providing the punter with 4 different temps of bottle. Mount Sion GAA club is rumoured to have 5 temps of large bottle utilising 2 chillers at different temps.
Boy is used as punctuation at the end of a sentence when addressing a male.
Ritz is a dry perry once popular with Irish females (or in Waterford slang the lacks) in the eighties/nineties therefore....
A pint bottle of Black Rock my good man and I believe my girlfriend will have a bottle of Ritz[/quote:3twmcfgp]

LOL! Nicely explained/translated <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->