Gregg R Thomas

My American friend. This was his first evening in Ireland after a long day walking and we went into a busy “tourist” pub. My English friend thought it would take too long to be served food as he really wanted a steak dinner. I asked the server in Irish (Gaeilge) to get him one, without waiting for the menu. Ten minutes later he was eating the…[Read more]

In this situation, if Reg says “3 please”, the barman knows he means Guinesses.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I thought you said you were never in here before? I wasn’t, I replied.

Was that the barman or the Englishman or the American who asked?

Before pubs, in the middle ages or whatever, there were ale houses run by individuals who may have been brewing their own beer…

God made Guinness. Guinness drinkers make beer. Beer drinkers make lager.

An Irishman, an Englishman and an American walk into an Irish pub for the first time. The fronkey farmer raises his hand to the barman with 3…[Read more]

An expert analysis by a musician/sound engineeer of the Show Them collaboration:

@  PopeBeanie

Well, here’s one you can watch because iot’s official. It’s their collab with Band Maid:

Like many Japanese bands, the level of musicianship they have is just insane. TW can’t compare on that level. Their forte is in their songwriting. Thus, I think the song was largely written by…[Read more]

Before pubs, in the middle ages or whatever, there were ale houses run by individuals who may have been brewing their own beer.  I don’t know, probably a number of brewing companies started their own pubs.  Apparently these are called tied houses, but we don’t call them anything.  The opposite of a tied house is a free house where there is no re…[Read more]

@ Simon

I think originally a pub was an establishment run by a brewery as a way of marketing its products. So, if you went to an ABC Brewery pub, you wouldn’t have a choice of various ABC products. Was it that way and is it still that way in today’s pubs?

Unseen wrote:
BTW, for the Americans, what’s the difference between a pub and a bar?

A pub is a public house – a whole building dedicated to meeting and drinking.  A bar is technically a counter with a rack of bottles behind it.  A bar is more like a facility where they serve you drinks, than a public house, a comfortable home from home full of…[Read more]

A couple observations on some cultural difference between the UK and the USA from comparing their mystery/detective series with American cop shows.

First, almost invariable when UK cops visit someone while gathering information, they are offered tea or tea and biscuits. Even substituting coffee for tea, that never happens in American…[Read more]