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"TheBeerNut":2fl8hdwg wrote: Of course! Beoir has never, will never, tell people that they shouldn't drink any specific beer, macro or micro. Beoir is not a campaign against anything.

If you like it: drink it. Now and always.
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Which is what I signed up for. I did find the Beoir material at the RDS a little cringey when it temporarily deviated to an anti-multinational rant.

"Tube":32v95wp0 wrote: If the Revenue decide in these lean time to start fiddling with the limit, then what? If the biggest "craft" brewer finds themselves no longer a micro at the stroke of Michael Noonan's pen, then what?[/quote:32v95wp0]

I could be wrong, and I don't have numbers to hand, but my understanding is that it would have to be a pretty big stroke of the pen to change anything. Are any of the micros any way close to the line at all? If they're all as far away as I believe I was once told they were (although where that was, specifically, I don't remember) then this is a conversation we don't need to be having for a long, long time (if ever).

"TheBeerNut":2flqx2vu wrote: Last I heard Carlow and Porterhouse were both around the 10k mark. So yes: a long way to go to the line, and even further to make crossing the line economical.[/quote:2flqx2vu]
More rumour here than anything else, as I didn't ask Carlow, but last I was told was they were in the region of 13k.

A couple of big contracts and whaddya know.

Does anyone remember the Y2K bug? "Ah that's so far away we don't need to worry about it" <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->

&amp;quot;Tube&amp;quot;:1skg3e6l wrote: Does anyone remember the Y2K bug? "Ah that's so far away we don't need to worry about it" <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) -->[/quote:1skg3e6l]

I remember the Y2K bug but not that attitude- I was working on Y2K compliancy projects from 1995. I got a call from a journalist in 1998 looking for me to supply the doom-and-gloom story she wanted to write about the millennium bug- I told her that everyone was fully aware of the issues and that it would be relatively uneventful (I was right); However that was not the story she wanted to write so she found some teacher of computer science to help her concoct her nightmare scenario.

I actually had more issues with the GPS Rollover bug but thankfully the general public hadn't heard about SatNav at that point.

&amp;quot;Tube&amp;quot;:30pg9fwb wrote: A couple of big contracts and whaddya know.[/quote:30pg9fwb]Yep, perfectly possible, and wouldn't it make sense that a brewery making so much money from contracts wouldn't need the formal support of a consumer movement to help it survive?