Just a bit of something for the day. Over our corned beef and cabbage this evening, I got to looking at some of the images I shot during our trip to Ireland in 2019.
This was taken a couple of days before St. Patrick’s, in the great brewery in Dublin itself.
I was taking a class in the art of pulling a pint of Guinness, which of course is far more complex and important that pulling a pint of anyt’ing else.
The best part is, after we passed the class, we got our own pint for free…
Enjoy watching…
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And if you don’t know how to pour a Guinness, here’s a lesson.
By the way, I’ve been in the bar in this video, too, which is also located there in the brewery.
You understand, no doubt, that the Guinness brewery is much more than a brewery. When you’re there in that sprawling facility, you feel like you’re in the very nerve center of Dublin. You also get that impression elsewhere in the city, when you’re in traffic behind a tanker truck of stout, or you wonder what that huge racket is as you walk down a street, and turn to look into an alley that runs behind a pub, and see multiple kegs rolling about on the cobblestones…
Or when you look about you anywhere in Ireland — in a pub, or a sports venue, or just out the window of your hotel in Limerick (zoom in and look closely, below) — you’re made aware of the ubiquity of this product and this name.
We went to visit a cathedral in Dublin — the main Church of Ireland cathedral, which of course in the Middle Ages was a proper (that is to say, Catholic) cathedral, and out on the grounds was a statue of a member of the Guinness family.
Very fitting, I suppose…