Drink of choice for St. Patrick's Day

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  1. Vino Bevo

    Vino Bevo Wine - how classy people get drunk

    Being primarily of Irish descent on both sides, this is one of my favorite holidays. If you celebrate, what will you be pouring tomorrow? For me, Guinness followed by a row that will be sipped over the course of the evening on a Zoom call with friends - Green Spot, Redbreast 15, Jameson Distillery Edition and Bushmills Distillery Reserve.

    Slainte
     
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  2. BevoJoe

    BevoJoe 10,000+ Posts

    A 4 pack of Guinness Extra Stout, which I drink while watching the John Wayne movie, "The Quiet Man." No Irish blood, family is primarily Nordic with some Welsh markers.
     
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  3. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    I have both kinds of Irish in my ancestry (among lots of other places), so I drink both Jameson and Bushmills.

    Kilkenny beer by Guinness is very good. Didn’t have any on St Patrick’s day though. Drank plenty in Asia and Australia. Not sure if they sell it in America yet.
     
  4. BevoJoe

    BevoJoe 10,000+ Posts

    I'll have to try those. Haven't seen any available here though. Like you said, might not be available in the US.
     
  5. Run Pincher

    Run Pincher 2,500+ Posts

    Bushmills, Harp or Guinness Extra Stout
     
  6. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    Little known fact. The Guinness family ("Lord Iveagh") are Dublin Protestants. When you make beer that good, you can go to whatever church you want to and they won't mess with you in Ireland.
     
  7. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts



    At the pub on the crossroads there's whiskey and beer
    There's brandy from Cognac that's fragrant but dear
    But for killing the thirst and for raising the gout
    There's nothing at all beats a pint of good stout
    Drink it up men, it's long after ten

    At the pub on the crossroads I first went astray
    There I drank enough drink for to fill Galway Bay
    Going up in the mourning I wore out me shoes
    Going up to the cross for the best of good booze
    Drink it up men, it's long after ten

    Some folk o'er the water think bitter is fine
    And others they swear by the juice of the vine
    But there's nothing that's squeezed from the grape or the hop
    Like the black liquidation with the froth on the top
    Drink it up men, it's long after ten

    I've travelled in England, I've travelled in France
    At the sound of good music I'll sing or I'll dance
    So hear me then mister and pour me one more
    If I cannot drink it up then throw me out the door
    Drink it up men, it's long after ten

    It's Guinness's Porter that has me this way
    For it's sweeter than buttermilk and stronger than tea
    But when in the morning I feel kind of rough
    Me curse on Lord Iveagh who brews the damned stuff
    Drink it up men, it's long after ten
    Drink it up men, it's long after ten


    I love the Irish (not Notre Dame though).
     
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  8. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts



    The French drink wine, the English tea.
    The Yankee gulps his hot black coffee.
    The child drinks milk nine times a day.
    The Scotsman sips his whiskey toddy.
    You can keep you wine and keep your tea!
    My curse on him that brings me coffee!
    I'll have porter, if I may.
    It makes me feel content and happy.

    Porter quaffed down with a laugh.
    The gentry have their aching livers.
    Water is all right in tea,
    For fish, and things that swim in rivers.

    The poor man and the beggar, too,
    The poet in the corner thinking.
    If they'd money enough to spend,
    It's pints of porter they'd be drinking.

    Porter quaffed down with a laugh.
    The gentry have their aching livers.
    Water is all right in tea,
    For fish, and things that swim in rivers.

    The miser hoards and stores his gold.
    The bee collects the summer honey.
    When that miser's dead and cold,
    Someone else will kiss his money!

    Porter quaffed down with a laugh.
    The gentry have their aching livers.
    Water is all right in tea,
    For fish, and things that swim in rivers.

    Some go in for counting beads.
    More go in for chasing women.
    The scholar stays at home and reads.
    Give me the glass with porter in it.

    Porter quaffed down with a laugh.
    The gentry have their aching livers.
    Water is all right in tea,
    For fish, and things that swim in rivers.
     
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  9. Vino Bevo

    Vino Bevo Wine - how classy people get drunk

    Well done sir!
     
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