IrishBeerHistory

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Despite the handle, I research and write about Ireland's brewing history and recreate Irish historical(ish) beers. Also posting food, and nonsense. Seemingly, I'm a 'gloomy beer drinker' who's 'lost in the froth on his pint.' beerfoodtravel.blogspot.com

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IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 13

This? Rocs ... (Yes, the glass has bubbles on it, and—yet again—no, it doesn't affect the taste.)

A triple imperial beer from Brasserie des Rocs in an old glass outdoors.

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 13

Last client seen today before shutting down for a well-earned break. I'm currently tempering my travel anxiety with a Rabbit Poo Negroni™ ...

A negroni in a glass with an umbrella and three black olives.

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 11

A proper Irish half and half folks. (Mixed, not in layers as that's just 2 separate drinks in one glass!) This has turned out to be an extremely pleasant afternoon ...

A pint bottle of Guinness and a pint bottle of Macardle's with a glass of a mix of both in between.

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 11

Ritual and aesthetics. No weddings or funerals today so got into one of my 'dive' bars for a large bottle. I'm being a bit unfair with my terminology, being based on some of the clientele more so than the pub itself. The service and music is good—it's quite traditional and tourists would love it ...

A pint bottle of Macardle's ale beside a half pint glass on a table.

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 11

Lads, guess what I'm back on? ...

Spoiler alert, a pint of Trouble Brewing's Ambush on a table in a pub. A rare-for-me hazy pale ale by choice.

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 10

This? Why this is one of the finest debut albums of the eighties ...

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 10

Those who have never worked alongside 'successful' business people and don't know they are (mostly) sociopaths vs those of us who have, via Joey ...

Joey from Friends looking shocked versus shrugging.

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 10

Here's a similar one from Ronald Gabriel's excellent book on old drinking glasses. Mine are superior(!) but this shows how far back moulded glasses go back. I have a fair few nice examples of Victorian moulded glassware. Jesus, I've just heard myself say all of that! All I'm missing is a wink ...

Plate s4 Moulded ribbed g lass Date: c.1830

Photo of a similar glass by M. Nash

What looks like cutting on this glass is in fact moulded ribbing, the bowl having apparently been blown into a mould. The techniques of simulating cutting using moulding methods were very much developed both in America and in Great Britain during the nineteenth century and brought what looked like cut glass within the means of a greatly increased number of people during that time.

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 10

What else would you be drinking tonight? Served in a fantastic facet-cut rummer from around 1800(?)—although glass can be tricky to date. This is a solid lump of glass, a beer drinkers glass imo, and I'd love to know its history and the characters who used it back in the day. I have a pair btw! ...

Heatwave, a collaboration brewed Imperial Stout in a very old glass on a table outside.

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 10

FYI, from The Cries of Dublin by Hugh Douglas Hamilton from 1760 and edited by William Laffan ...

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134 x 88 mm. Pen and brown ink and grey wash. With traces of an inscription in pencil at upper left of drawing sheet. Alhwum sice tumbered in eneil uper right
Pies, sold here by a finely dressed young woman, were produced with a ariety of fillings and were usually intended for consumption mmediately after purchase. The hawker wears particularly fine shoes which poke out daintily from underneath her skirts. Shoes with heels were not the most practical attire for such arduous work, but appear hroughout Hamilton's drawings. The vendor, like other women in the album, as 'looped up' her skirt at the back in order to prevent it from dragging in the mud, a practice to which Swift comically took exception:
I could never endure to see maid servants so ungenteel as to walk the streets with their petticoats pinned up; it is a foolish excuse to allege their petticoats will be dirty when they have so easy a remedy as to walk three or four times down a clean pair of stairs after they come home.
Although Hamilton's subjects were clearly drawn from directly observed scenes, it seems possible that, on certain occasions, he asked the women vendors whom he depicted to arrange their garments in ways that showed them to best aesthetic effect (e.g. Root Woman (Plate 30)). This appears in the tilt of a headdress, the decorous exposure of an underskirt, or the protrusion of a shoe. A conspicuous exception to this is the figure in Ringsend Oysters (Plate 27), who wraps herself up against the cold in a heavy hooded shawl. Here, the quality of the vendor's clothing is matched by the basket she carries on the crook of her arm. She lays her arm gently over the basket, trying, perhaps, to protect its contents against the cold.
Hamilton presents the young woman in isolation, very much in the orthodox manner of series of Cries, and imbues her with a certain movement and vitality. He displayed the same control of movement and balance with the figure in Oranges and Lemon Plate 16). The fain…

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 10

I'm not normally a fan of these sours but they are pleasant in this weather, plus I've a soft-spot for the brewery, even if their glassware is shockingly poorly printed and most likely to lose its logo and lettering! Interesting that it doesn't mention pineapple even though it's the main fruit? ...

Wicklow Wolf's Póg fruited sour in a branded glass on a branded beermat out doors.

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 10

Nice to give some old German(?) glassware a spin with a more-than-decent beer, especially given its bbf date. Ungainly to drink from and missing a thumb catch (daumendrücker?) but cut crystal and probably late 19th century. It's monogrammed 'ES' (maybe). It's like I'm restarting #BeerGlassology ...

Spezialbräu Ungespundet beer poured into an old crystal tankard with a pewter lid wit a inset faceted crystal with a branded beer mat outside on a table in the garden.

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 7

While searching for that beer mat I came across these ones. I've had for a few years and they date from 1961/62 going by the tagline. One of my favourite series in my collection ...

A mixture of different coloured round Mackeson beer mats with truncated writing in different sizes and the words "There's a promise in a glass" on them.

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 7

Making the most of a couple of days down time. It's certainly the weather for this ...

Gouden Carolus whiskey infused beer in a branded glass on a branded beer mat.

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 6

Okay, so you can probably read a smidgen more into my beer choice now ...

De Meester's Douze Quadrupel beer in a branded glass.

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 6

Starting to do something I've been meaning to do for a while—pulling all my myth busting writings into one post with just the gist of my findings on each topic, and links back to the longer pieces, for the TL;DR brigade. The topics read like the chapters of a book that no one would dare publish ...

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 6

You needn't read too much in to my beer choice, but you can certainly read a little bit in to it ...

Brasserie de la Senne's Bruxellensis poured into a branded glass on a table outside.

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 5

Notwithstanding my general dislike for most hazy beers this is shockingly poor. Meant to be bursting with fruit, it's more like fizzy water with a bare dash of MiWadi. I've had it twice now, on draught not knowing what it was, and now as my better half bought it for me not knowing either, ... [1/2]

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 5

You reminded me of this illustration of a Victorian bar from Loftus's Almanack in 1869 I put up 'over beyont' ages ago. Now there's a bar you could waltz along, let alone pass a pint along ...

An advertisement for a bar fitting company showing an illustration of a bar from behind the counter with a neat row of tap handles and loads of space either side. There is also nice neat shelving and presses and a chandelier hanging up with windows to the front.

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 4

I was hoping to head home via one of my slightly dodgy front (dive) bars for a pint bottle to reboot my unfinished article on the same. Sadly, one stinks of pee, smoke and sickly vapes, and the other was full of unmentionable and unbearable people. So having one at home, with incorrect glassware ...

A pint bottle of Guinness poured into a branded glass, with a big craggy head.

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 4

Reading Beckett in the pub, because yes, I'm one of those unbearable people ...

A book of Beckett short stories beside a pint.

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 4

I'm fairly sure the rules dictate that if you see Scraggy you drink Scraggy? No excuses ...

A pint of Kinnegar's Scraggy Bay IPA on a table.

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 3

So, with blessings tallied and system demoaned here I am with one from DOT's Spin Off Series. I'm not a fan of their Aldi range, as any I've tried seemed a lacking, but I'm a huge fan of DOT in general. This is very nice mind, a big, pleasant bang of sulphur and then a clean light lager. Lovely ...

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 2

Oh! Seemingly I quite like hazy Dutch rye black IPAs. Who knew, huh? ...

A can of Kaapse Bea On Steroids poured into a stemmed glass.

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 1

Done. Definitely one of my all time favourite tv series ...

A television showing the words The Bear.

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 1

Et tu Abt? ...

A menu from a friend's visit to the St. Bernardus brewery showing a menu with Abt 12 on nitro serve.

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jul 1

Another nice find, sitting on a table in a charity shop today being ignored by all. A small wine glass ingraved with grapes, leaves, and tendrils. It has a cut stem and bowl, and a ground pontil mark on the base. If I were to hazard a guess at the age I'd say 200 years old, maybe? 1820-1840s? ...

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jun 30

Oh I'm not so sure about this one. It's like kvass mixed with rum, appealing to some but a bit sweet with too much of an overdose if molasses with bovril quality for me. I'll still drink it, obviously ...

Ārpus and Pinta collaboration Baltic Porter in a stemmed glass.

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jun 30

I was left a half of case of Guinness Extra by a house visitor over the weekend so it would be a shame to waste them. And there's lads would tell you that it's too warm for Guinness off the shelf? Ridiculous ...

A pint bottle of Guinness Extra Stout beside a filled half-pint pilsner glass on a table in the garden.

IrishBeerHistory@beerfoodtravel· Jun 28

If certain Guinness drinkers' social media posts have thought us nothing it's that serving this beer in a branded glass on a requisite doily means it will taste 90% nicer than otherwise. #Sh!tIrishDeGarreTripel ...