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[Not Bob]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
This is not cutting it for me today. Could we return to a beer discussion or something? What is the proper beer to follow my Guinness this evening? Is Harp English or Irish?

Harp is Irish. But why not hit the Bushmills or Jamesons instead?

[dtb]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Yeats depresses me. I've never recovered from reading "The Second Coming" as a young Not Bobby.

Hmmm. Now that I think of it, it's a perfect addition to my typical St. Patrick's Day routine of drinking whiskey and crying while singing "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Wearin' O' The Green." I'll recite it at the Michael Collins Inn later.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Is it the Irish, or just St. Patrick's Day that is inherently depressing? My boyfriend? John Mayer? Like, has totally cool songs (well, other than the vile "Daughters"), but his "St. Patrick's Day" tune makes me want to slit my wrists. But damned if I can't stop listening to it.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Not Bob
I always thought of Easter: 1916 as his "Boulevard of Broken Dreams." (I am assuming that this term means something along the lines of it being his most popular, but not his best, work.)

Overplayed, overquoted. Seems everyone memorizes lines from the Second Coming and it's always showing up in trivia games and the like.

[bilmore]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
This is not cutting it for me today. Could we return to a beer discussion or something?

Pick something roughly in the same color shade. Otherwise it clashes on the sidewalk.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
This is not cutting it for me today. Could we return to a beer discussion or something? What is the proper beer to follow my Guinness this evening? Is Harp English or Irish?

Is Guiness/Harp a black and Tan or a half and half? then what is the beer in the other?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by dtb
Is it the Irish, or just St. Patrick's Day that is inherently depressing? My boyfriend? John Mayer? Like, has totally cool songs (well, other than the vile "Daughters"), but his "St. Patrick's Day" tune makes me want to slit my wrists. But damned if I can't stop listening to it.

As a History of a People, the only more depressing sagas involve nationalities that were completely wiped out by plague.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Is Guiness/Harp a black and Tan or a half and half? then what is the beer in the other?

I sort of use the terms interchangably, and either way, I always end up with Guinness/Harp.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Is Guiness/Harp a black and Tan or a half and half? then what is the beer in the other?

Guinness/Harp is a half and half. Guinness/Bass is a black and tan.

Guinness/Mich Ultra is a dark brown mess. I invented that drink.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Guinness/Mich Ultra is a dark brown mess. I invented that drink.

Mich Ultra has got to be the absolute worst beer I have ever ever tried. Is the dark brown mess at all palatable?

and another question. this "double chocolate" of which you speak. What nationality is this beer? Does it actually have chocolate in it? (I suspect not) Is it widely available?

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by Not Bob
My plan of inebriated melancholy for today.

You plan this? For me, it always just sort of happens.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Mich Ultra has got to be the absolute worst beer I have ever ever tried. Is the dark brown mess at all palatable?

and another question. this "double chocolate" of which you speak. What nationality is this beer? Does it actually have chocolate in it? (I suspect not) Is it widely available?

I think they are talking about this stuff.

http://www.youngs.co.uk/htmldocs/pro...?SelectedID=12

And yes, it actually contains chocolate. Not just "chocolate malt," which is different.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Mich Ultra has got to be the absolute worst beer I have ever ever tried. Is the dark brown mess at all palatable?

and another question. this "double chocolate" of which you speak. What nationality is this beer? Does it actually have chocolate in it? (I suspect not) Is it widely available?

I like Mich Ultra. I admit that it has virtually no taste, but when I drink light beers, that is basically what I'm going for. I find the Coors low carb thing repulsive (Aspen Edge?). Like Coors Light, but with fewer carbs.

Anyway - with that in mind, the dark brown mess is fairly tasty. Not as good as Guinness straight, so I haven't repeated the experiment.

Young's Double Chocolate appears to be English. I've had it at some of those 50 beers on tap sorts of places, but I'd think most self-respecting full service beer stores would carry it too. Here's the website description - http://www.youngs.co.uk/htmldocs/pro...?SelectedID=12

Chocolate bars are added to the boil; chocolate essence (whatever that is) is added after filtration.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by dtb
Is it the Irish, or just St. Patrick's Day that is inherently depressing?

Yes. And watch for me with the rest of the Hibernians on Fifth Avenue later today. I may need a shoulder to cry on. Don't worry -- I may be a sad drunk, but I am not a sloppy one.

Originally posted by dtb
My boyfriend? John Mayer? Like, has totally cool songs (well, other than the vile "Daughters"), but his "St. Patrick's Day" tune makes me want to slit my wrists. But damned if I can't stop listening to it.

The voice I heard reading the first line (not including the parenthetical, of course) was that of Roxanne from American Dreams. It made me laugh.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
This is not cutting it for me today. Could we return to a beer discussion or something? What is the proper beer to follow my Guinness this evening? Is Harp English or Irish?

O but there is wisdom
In what the sages said;
But stretch that body for a while
And lay down that head
Till I have told the sages
Where man is comforted.

[spookyfish]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
Chocolate bars are added to the boil; chocolate essence (whatever that is) is added after filtration.

You're such a little helper.

I think chocolate essence is like a flavor extract. I brew and I've used the fruit-flavored ones in lieu of real fruit.