Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Given the location and the color it's definitely a Brains. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Mar 22, 2014, at 2:30 AM, lrzeitlin at aol.com wrote: > John, Douglas, > You both may be right. The picture was taken some time ago in?Blaenau > Ffestiniog, a slate mining town in North Wales. I asked my daughter what > kind of beer it was and she said that she ordered Guinness but they > probably slipped her a glass of Brains instead. What did she know? I agree > that Guinness Stout is much darker, almost black. Me, I'm a wine drinker > myself. My doctor tells me that beer is bad for gout. But it was a St. > Patricks's day libation. By coincidence, St. Patrick's day is on her > birthday and we both remembered that. > Larry Z > - - -? > Looks to be the wrong colour for porter as well ;-) > > john > > -----Original Message----- > > Larry, that's a pint of Brains beer (and Welsh to boot) and bears no > resemblance to a pint of Guinness - an Irish stout!! > > Maybe you sent the wrong link? > > Douglas > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <lrzeitlin at aol.com> > To: <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 2:37 PM > Subject: [Leica] Saint Patrick's Day beer > > > Here is my daughter's St. Patrick's day beer. A real Guinness. (Trivia: a? > glass of Guinness Stout contains fewer calories than a glass of skimmed? > milk.) > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Karen+with+beer.jpg.html > Larry Z > - - - - > I had agreed with my Irish colleague Ruth to have a St Patrick's Day beer? > on Monday, but work and meetings screwed up our schedule, so the O'Hara's? > Stout was consumed on Tuesday afternoon: > Nathan > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=3133962071&k=SMMtg25&lb=1&s=O > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >