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La Flamme Rouge **off topic discussion**

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    #5552
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,848 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    Weepsie wrote: »
    I also thoroughly recommend (as a gin alternative) white port and tonic with a slice of orange.

    Looks wistfully towards Portugal

    Oh I'll give that a go, I've never had a white port.
    I love a hot port in the winter time, time to summer up!


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    #5553
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    eeeee wrote: »
    No whiskey founded by that hideous creature!
    Brandy, gin or wine for me please!

    :pac:


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    #5554
    Captain Havoc
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 11,391 Mod ✭✭✭✭Captain Havoc


    Personally, I loathe the term craft beer, it's beer simple as, well maybe regional beer. If you drink craft beer, you probably have a beard and ride a fixie with narrow handlebars. If you drink peroni, no matter what colour gear you have on, your socks are white.

    Proper 12 is proper piss, I even hate the fact he's put 12 in there to make it sound like a twelve-year-old.

    I have found a beer that I love from a smaller regional brewhouse that is out to make money like any other brewhouse. To make it better it's brewed in the home of decent beer - Kilkenny. Costello's spelt lager, yum. 12 acres is also worth a mention.

    https://ormondelanguagetours.com

    Walking Tours of Kilkenny in English, French or German.



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    #5555
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,667 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Carlsberg special brew, thats a craft beer too surely ?


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    #5556
    cletus
    Registered Users Posts: 8,005 ✭✭✭cletus


    RobFowl wrote: »
    Carlsberg special brew, thats a craft beer too surely ?

    I'm a big fan of Rock Shore myself. Think they are a small brewer.


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    #5557
    manafana
    Registered Users Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭manafana


    Smaller regional brewhouse roles off the tongue :pac:

    no comment on mr.proper 12 and his pissy whiskey


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    #5558
    [Deleted User]
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    Speaking of beer I noticed a few of the local pubs had kegs outside today to prevent parking in anticipation of a delivery :confused:

    Maybe they are going to try deliveries or take aways.


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    #5559
    eeeee
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 6,848 Mod ✭✭✭✭eeeee


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Speaking of beer I noticed a few of the local pubs had kegs outside today to prevent parking in anticipation of a delivery :confused:

    Maybe they are going to try deliveries or take aways.

    Pubs near me are doing takeaway pints and glasses of wine.
    I don't know how they're managing it, just saw the open door and sign outside.


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    #5560
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,846 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Not a craft beer but my current favourite is Paulaner Hefe-Weissbier


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    #5561
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    I was only kidding about proper 12 btw!


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    #5562
    dahat
    Registered Users Posts: 16,788 ✭✭✭✭dahat


    The Assimo power meter pedals better be worth this painting aggro I've taken on as bargaining chip.

    Shattered from two days at it.


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    #5563
    buffalo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,081 ✭✭✭buffalo


    eeeee wrote: »
    Pubs near me are doing takeaway pints and glasses of wine.
    I don't know how they're managing it, just saw the open door and sign outside.

    Same as the off-licences and any shop that's operating at the moment - you pay in advance (sale has to happen on the premises, but credit card over the phone is fine), and they deliver the pints to you, or you collect. As long as social distancing is followed, it's all legit.


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    #5564
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    buffalo wrote: »
    Same as the off-licences and any shop that's operating at the moment - you pay in advance (sale has to happen on the premises, but credit card over the phone is fine), and they deliver the pints to you, or you collect. As long as social distancing is followed, it's all legit.

    It's been 20 years since I worked in a bar but at that time we were not allowed to sell booze to people at the end of the night to bring home as from memory a standard publicans licence didn't cover them for sales for consumption outside the pub premises.

    Maybe I'm recalling that incorrectly or it's changed.

    EDIT: Actually if I recall you need to have a separate beer, wine and spirit licence for offsales too.


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    #5565
    [Deleted User]
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    Out with the dog there and doing it's best rain , a few spits no more and that smell when it hasn't rained in a while. I wish I could bottle it!!!!!


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    #5566
    NamelessPhil
    Registered Users Posts: 1,098 ✭✭✭NamelessPhil


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Out with the dog there and doing it's best rain , a few spits no more and that smell when it hasn't rained in a while. I wish I could bottle it!!!!!

    "Petrichor" is the word you need.

    Not enough rain to dampen the ground here in South Dublin. My water butt needs refilling.


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    #5567
    buffalo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,081 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Deleted User wrote: »
    It's been 20 years since I worked in a bar but at that time we were not allowed to sell booze to people at the end of the night to bring home as from memory a standard publicans licence didn't cover them for sales for consumption outside the pub premises.

    Maybe I'm recalling that incorrectly or it's changed.

    EDIT: Actually if I recall you need to have a separate beer, wine and spirit licence for offsales too.

    Apparently it's fine as long as customers don't consume it within 100m. I'm guessing that it would be hard to stop people from buying drink from you at the end of the night, then sitting in the car park drinking it. Or perhaps the law has changed as you said, that on-licences can be off-licences too.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/not-black-and-white-the-legalities-of-a-pint-of-plain-during-lockdown-1.4256565


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    #5568
    Large bottle small glass
    Registered Users Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭Large bottle small glass


    NamelessPhil wrote: »
    "Petrichor" is the word you need.

    A word which came from research in the 1960's into the phenomenon.

    https://chemport.cas.org/cgi-bin/sdcgi?APP=ftslink&action=reflink&origin=npg&version=1.0&coi=1:CAS:528:DyaF2cXnsVCmsg%3D%3D&pissn=0028-0836&pyear=1965&md5=e69431f269998ab0b70dd6759a53d72c

    I've searched but it seems Brendan McWilliams (Weather Eye in the Irish Times) never wrote on the subject which is a pity.


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    #5569
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,617 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    we bought a petrichor candle in tk maxx a few years ago which seems to have become a collector's item. my wife was saying she was seeing it selling for 100 quid online a year or so later. i'd never known there was a collectors market for candles, but i guess there's one for everything.


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    #5570
    Hurrache
    Registered Users Posts: 10,232 ✭✭✭✭Hurrache


    Given it's World Bicycle Day, the EU, via the European Space Agency, have announced a new app "that guides people on safer, more enjoyable bike journeys will be launched later this summer as social-distancing measures encourage more cyclists to take to the road. Developed by London-based company Beeline, it uses space data and crowdsourced information to generate route suggestions, and can be connected to a device fixed onto the bike’s handlebars that provides easy-to-understand prompts."

    https://www.esa.int/Applications/Telecommunications_Integrated_Applications/Bike_routing_app_uses_space_for_cyclists

    It's crowd sourced and takes in elevations, accident hotspots, route feedback and so on. Could be interesting for those not familiar with different routes around the country. However it'll only be as good as the number of people using it.


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    #5571
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Got a chipper on the way home from today's cycle, smoked cod and chips, I ended up with a smoked cod and a fresh cod. Waste not want not...

    Best chipper in Dublin btw, no fancy bull just a normal chipper.

    Bonus points if you can name the location


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    #5572
    [Deleted User]
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    Do I get more bonus points by knowing it's one of two Macari on the same road???

    Bastard, you've put the want on me now for a chipper!!!!!!


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    #5573
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Do I get more bonus points by knowing it's one of two Macari on the same road???

    Bastard, you've put the want on me now for a chipper!!!!!!

    The other Macari is still known locally as The Ritz. I also make no apologies for making you want chips :pac:


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    #5574
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 49,617 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    our local macaris can't cook chips for ****. why is it that so many irish chippers cook them so they're basically just a big bag of sogginess rather than something with a bit of texture?


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    #5575
    dastardly00
    Registered Users Posts: 13,425 ✭✭✭✭dastardly00


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Got a chipper on the way home from today's cycle, smoked cod and chips, I ended up with a smoked cod and a fresh cod. Waste not want not...

    Best chipper in Dublin btw, no fancy bull just a normal chipper.

    Bonus points if you can name the location

    They gave you 2 pieces of fish and no chips at all??


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    #5576
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,442 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    our local macaris can't cook chips for ****. why is it that so many irish chippers cook them so they're basically just a big bag of sogginess rather than something with a bit of texture?

    So many bad chippers in Ireland.

    dastardly00 wrote: »
    They gave you 2 pieces of fish and no chips at all??

    No no, I got 2 huge pieces of fish and my chips.


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    #5577
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Do I get more bonus points by knowing it's one of two Macari on the same road???

    Bastard, you've put the want on me now for a chipper!!!!!!

    I had a takeaway from Dominic's on Monday.
    Very tasty,


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    #5578
    [Deleted User]
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    Didn't even have to get off my bike to get chips there, the lads are serving out the wee window !!!! Herself is away to arm herself with 'red sauce', the word ketchup is never spoken on our house.


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    #5579
    [Deleted User]
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    Eamonnator wrote: »
    I had a takeaway from Dominic's on Monday.
    Very tasty,

    Oh the nights after fusion we got chips there!!!!!! Actually I'm for old enough it to have been Man Friday's too.


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    #5580
    Eamonnator
    Registered Users Posts: 6,561 ✭✭✭Eamonnator


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Oh the nights after fusion we got chips there!!!!!! Actually I'm for old enough it to have been Man Friday's too.

    I remember when it was The Swan Inn and before that The Penny Farthing.
    Was it not Crusoe's rather than Man Friday's?


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    #5581
    [Deleted User]
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    Eamonnator wrote: »
    I remember when it was The Swan Inn and before that The Penny Farthing.
    Was it not Crusoe's rather than Man Friday's?

    Both, former was the bar the later the night club. It was just called it Dingo's by most. I guess every generation says this but those were the days.


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