is the best drink ever.

i'll have a pint please

sermwanderer said:

Meh, not my favorite, but to each his own.

sermwanderer said:

It is delicious and fixes all life's problems.

It gives me the squits. Can't drink it.

GirlBrother said:

This means you're a demon.

PunkMistress said:

It means that I don't have Irish intestines.

GirlBrother said:

Touche.

Anything Guinness can do Murphys does better

I have read that it is filtered through animal bones. I really hope that's not true.

Why anyone has to kill animals to make beer is beyond me.

Nope

Newcastle makes everything right in the world

evenstar3 said:

Guinness is infinitely better than Newcastle Brown Ale

CarrieMpls said:

It's not filtered through animal bones, don't worry!

They just kill animals at the brewery for fun.

mcmeekle said:

I booted a cat in the balls after visiting the guinness factory.

I wouldn't kill one though. thats just cruel

sermwanderer said:

That almost-chocolately thing it has going on puts me off it

there is a guinness emoticon:

Guinness makes me very happy.

Sitting in a pub in Dublin drinking Guinness puts me over the moon.

I started drinking it when the Rutger Hauer adverts came out. I was about 15/16 and just about able to get into pubs and I thought I could be cool too.

Longest pint of my life.....

CarrieMpls said:

Never stopped you drinking it before

PopeLeo said:

I just scared my cats 'cause it's all quiet here and I burst out laughing!


I forgot all about that. Dammit, I want that passport!

CarrieMpls said:

I could have done with that passport a couple of weeks ago too. My passport got lost or stolen in Paris when I went over for the 'All Day All Night' gig. So I couldn't go over to see the Paisley Park gig a couple of weeks ago as I was waiting for a replacement.


I felt like such a saddo tourist - I've been backpacking in a few countries where we don't even have an embassy and I lost it in a 24 hr trip to Paris, a mile away from our embassy. And the most embarrassing thing was that I was completely sober at the time.

PopeLeo said:

whoops.

Would you really have trekked over here for 1 show? That's dedication!

This reminds me, though, that my passport expires next year. I need to get in and get it renewed quickly.

CarrieMpls said:

Well, part dedication and part circumstance. For a variety of reasons, I haven't been able to travel much this year and I have time and cash set aside. And it would have been a good excuse to go to Minneapolis as I've never been before.

But yeah, do get you passport renewed soon - a lot of countries will insist that it's in date for 3 or even 6 months after you arrive there.

CarrieMpls said:

gross!!!!!

CarrieMpls said:

Don't most wines and beers do the same? I think it's part of the process for all of them after fermentation is done.

Efan said:

do they ever use egg white? I think some wines use that?

Efan said:

THROUGH ANIMAL BONES?

Why on earth would we use animal bones for that???

oh heavens, I'm gonna have to quit drinking.

CarrieMpls said:

I don't know about animal bones. Sorry. I don't really know the process of "fining," which I guess is what this is. But if you google "Is wine vegan?" or "Is Guinness vegan?" you get a bunch of sites that shed more light on it. I think if you want vegan or vegetarian wine or beer, you have to look for it.

Efan said:

or vegan soaps

I did a quick search and I can't find any mention of bone used in Guinness. brewing.
But like a lot of beers and wines, there does seem to be a small amount of isinglass used to clarify the beer and this is sourced from the air bladders of fish.

So the safest way to drink beer if you're vegetarian or vegan is to go for a German beer that says it still sticks by the conditions of the Reinheitsgebot - the old Beer Purity Law.