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[bob10]

Someone asked do they make the Guiness in Ireland.

When Bernie Powers owned the brewery at Yatala he brewed Guiness under license. I don't know if he bottled/canned it though.

Bernie would have Guiness nights up in the bar, often a Wednesday, all you drink , on the house.

As an aside SWMBO and I went to Coolangatta Hotel for their advertised St Patricks Evening , to celebrate our wedding anniversary which we share with the Irish. Can you believe we couldn't get a Guiness?
They had run out. It was part of their dinner package and they offered me a rotgut IPA instead. We will not go to the Coolangatta hotel again.

Guinness will be around for a while, they have just signed a 9,000 year lease on their Irish brewery. I believe it is brewed in 40 countries, and sold in 70. I also don't mind COOPERS Brewery Best extra Stout. Brewed and fermented using a centuries old method of top primary fermentation and natural bottle conditioning. Not as good as Guinness, but OK.

The History of stout. It may come as no surprise that Irish stout came about by trying to dodge the malt tax bill in the 1800's. SLAINTE! Stout reduces the risk of blood clots, so they said back in the day. All the more reason to have some now.

The Storied History of the Stout -- Stout Beer History - Bing video

[Tins]

Actually it is Port Augusta, that is what my younger bro calls it.

I managed to guess that....

[bob10]

Nothing's cast in stone yet, but mulling over the scenic route home (hoping 4bee's going to be good for a coffee), 3 weeks would allow plenty of time to nurse the vehicles. We should consider a meeting with the interested parties.

I must come clean. My bucket list wish is to make it to Pandanus Park Veterans Retreat, with one or more of my sons. At least it is in the right direction, North. I also dream about fishing for whiting and sand crabs[ they net them off the beach in shallow wate]r, in S.A., and the oysters of Coffin Bay, been there once, there is only one place that can match it, and that is a little bay on the North Wessels island, NT. Different type of oysters , not as sweet, but good. There will be no trip to Pandanus Park any time soon, with all the rain they have been getting.

Pandanus Park War Veterans Retreat – Cape York Peninsula – Queensland

[Tins]

Not as good as Guinness, but OK.

I prefer Beamish, but it is almost unobtainable in this country currently.

[4bee]

I managed to guess that....

You're no bloody slouch are you? I believe it was a bit of a take off some Aboriginal mates pronunciation over the years when living in The Alice.

[4bee]

I managed to guess that....

Well one cannot be too sure with you furriners from the East. .

[3toes]

Many years ago visited the SS Great Britain which they are restoring in the dry dock in Bristol. As you walked in they had some history of the dry dock and ships that had been built there. Don’t remember a lot of the info it was last century however do remember the the last ship that was built there. A Guinness bulk tanker. Now is one of these has gone aground in the past they have kept it very quiet

[Hogarthde]

Pandanus Park, we where there a few years ago.

Only stayed a couple of days though, just basic amenities which suited us just fine , at least the female long drop had three sheets of corrugated iron, supposedly to stop the brown snakes; so back, left flank, right flank, secure, no self respecting king brown would approach a lady from the front.

[4bee]

Many years ago visited the SS Great Britain which they are restoring in the dry dock in Bristol. As you walked in they had some history of the dry dock and ships that had been built there. Don’t remember a lot of the info it was last century however do remember the the last ship that was built there. A Guinness bulk tanker. Now is one of these has gone aground in the past they have kept it very quiet

Are you young/old enough to recall that nice little 1949 Ealing B&W film, "Whisky Galore"? Shipwrecked on the coast of Scotland with a Cargo of bottled Whisky...... well you can guess the rest. Remade in 2016

On the Ilse of Todday no less. Gettit?



Whisky Galore! (2016 film) - Wikipedia

[4bee]

[QUOTE=bob10;3079709]I must come clean. My bucket list wish is to make it to Pandanus Park Veterans Retreat, with one or more of my sons. At least it is in the right direction, North. I also dream about fishing for whiting and sand crabs[ they net them off the beach in shallow wate]r, in S.A., and the oysters of Coffin Bay, been there once, there is only one place that can match it, and that is a little bay on the North Wessels island, NT. Different type of oysters , not as sweet, but good. There will be no trip to Pandanus Park any time soon, with all the rain they have been getting.

Pandanus Park War Veterans Retreat – Cape York Peninsula – Queensland




Re Normanby River. I thought I'd already posted about that? wtf! I'll tell you a bit of a long winded story about the Normanby name one day when our paths cross bob . You bring the rum & I'll bring the story. Fair dos?

No, it is not in the history books.so no good looking to save on the rum, ok?