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Comment on Heather ale: Scots or Irish? by Bheóir Lochlannach and other tales « Knut Albert’s beer blog

Bheóir Lochlannach and other tales « Knut Albert’s beer blog — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:50:00 +0000

[...] Zythophile has a very interesting post about Irish and Scottish heather ales, showing connections to a Viking [...]

Comment on Heather ale: Scots or Irish? by zythophile

zythophile — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:38:03 +0000

Gary - I have no objection at all to you putting a link through to this post, but please don’t copy it, as it sets a bad precedent.

Ed - thanks for your compliments. Trivia - Rheingold lager was the beer featured in the book Ice Cold in Alex (in the film version they used Carlsberg …)_

Comment on Heather ale: Scots or Irish? by Ed Carson

Ed Carson — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:04:53 +0000

“Which tale came first, the story of the Rheingold or the story of the heather ale?”
Is not beer sometimes known as “liquid Gold”? As a product of the Mercantile 19th century,R. Wagner could have been confused by his sources or was attempting to make the story more universal or acceptable (more violence and incest,less drinking.) Here in the USA, the Liebman brewing family made the connection with their brand Rheingold,a lagerbier in the standard lager beer mold. A point of irony, the Liebman family was Jewish.
Also, a note of praise, this is consistently one of the most informative websites I read. Thank you and keep up the good work.

Comment on Heather ale: Scots or Irish? by sylvarwolf

sylvarwolf — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:55:05 +0000

I love this post

Would you mind if I mirrored it on our site, http://celticmythpodshow.com, fully credited, of course. I think our readers would love to hear your thoughts

Thank you for your time and all the best

Gary
gary@celticmythpodshow.com

Comment on Bonkers Boris backs barmy booze-buying ban by zythophile

zythophile — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:23:29 +0000

Indeed. The statistics show that Britons are now actually drinking LESS than they have in the recent past.

Comment on Bonkers Boris backs barmy booze-buying ban by Boak

Boak — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:13:05 +0000

Crazy crazy stuff. It’s unworkable and based on no evidence whatsoever. I’d laugh at the stupidity of it all, except that I worry it’s a prelude to calls to raise the drinking age.

Mostly, I’m just really concerned by the way that “Britain’s binge drink problem” has just become an accepted turn of phrase. Where’s the evidence that it’s worse than ever?

Comment on The forgotten story of London’s porters by Boak and Bailey's UK beer blog

Boak and Bailey's UK beer blog — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:33:55 +0000

[...] Porters” pub in Our Mutual Friend. We’ve got no primary evidence to support this, but Zythophile is bold enough to repeat the suggestion. It’s definitely an old place (current building from 1720), with a great atmosphere and nice [...]

Comment on Takeover bid for London’s biggest brewer by Schrittmacher

Schrittmacher — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:12:53 +0000

In der Bierwelt geht es rund…

[...] sicherlich auch in Deutschland verfügbar. In der Blogosphäre wird das Thema vor allem unter Bierfreunden heiss diskutiert. [...]…

Comment on Binge drinking: a brief history by Bonkers Boris backs barmy booze-buying ban « Zythophile

Bonkers Boris backs barmy booze-buying ban « Zythophile — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:36:35 +0000

[...] drinking”, as used today, is a concept with no intellectual authority, as I’ve discussed here. Just like Boris, and the idiot that thought of this idea, Steve O’Connell, you have no clue [...]

Comment on Loch Fyne could be finer with decent beer by zythophile

zythophile — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:04:28 +0000

The food’s good, the wine list looks more than competent. Just don’t expect a proper beer range.