Never saw it until today.
Iāve just had a fantastic 2.5 hours in my local pub. No photos. I ended up sitting for the last 20 mins with Eddie Furey and 2 of his old time mates. He comes in with his walking stick and just goes about his business.
Kate Bush came up, and he explained that they met a couple of times in London and in Germany. She was like a ānervous kittenā but a lovely girl. Like a knacker I googled him when going for a jacks trip.
Seriously influential musician in a quiet way.
Heād parked his stick in the corner earlier and I got it for him and made a quip about his best mate (mid 70ās) charging too much as his minder. He loved the attention. Google him, forget finbar for a sec, he is/was an important musician.
The Fureyās, lads. Never to be repeated.
@Fagan_ODowd gave me a clear and clean spot before, but this man will be gone soon and heās worth looking up. His opinion on Cody? āA fucking serious man, I love the hurlingā
Ireland Abu!
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Whereās the Asahi love-in coming from? Lapsed poster chocolatemice was writing reviews on this stuff 10 years ago. Is it a new recipe?
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I dunno mate. Current poster @Juhniallio spent 4 years as the tfk asian correspondent in the late 2.0s so id say thatās where it comes from for him.
Was he not more of a tsing tsao man?
He was an explorer mate. He tried them all. He did go to the qingdao beer festival alright, and got his picture taken with a sweaty, singing, psuedo sex dwarf, and had it as pride of place on his mantelpiece til his missus felt it was inappropriate and it went into storage. Any way. He loved asahi.
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Someone in the drinks industry told me that itās not Spanish at all and only brewed for the Irish and UK markets. Kinda put the pin in it, not as hipstery.
Iāll stick with the Galacia so when fancying a Spanish beer.
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Cruzcampo is a lovely lager, most of the Spanish stuff is nice, I like Mahou when Iām out there.
Madri is available on tap in loads of places now, I thought I was being hipster one night in Willie Sextons and that he had a rarity on tap, itās grand to be honest, fairly inoffensive, comes in a nice glass 
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Iāll have to try get out more.
Al Hambre especial is a lovely beer ā¦
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I havenāt seen that around either.
Not to be a kill joy but I was in Madrid two weeks ago and that stuff definitely isnāt available there
All the info on it is here:
The distributors address in Toledo Spain, about 50 miles from Madrid. Thereās a bar there across from the depo, that you can get it.
Right so a collaboration with Coors rather than a widely available local beer.
God bless the marketing dept
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Itās owned by Molson Coors, one of the largest beer manufacturers in the world. They produce Coors, Miller, Carling, Pilsner Urquell, Straropramen amongst many others.
Agree with your assessment, itās fairly bland.
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The French adore le piat dāor
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Fancy Carling is all it is. Their marketing department have played a blinder. Itās everywhere in the UK and has been adopted by the āfootball ladsā as their drink of choice.
He even has a alcohol free cider out now.
Heās from west Limerick/North Kerry I think.
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