tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post4421821547264428120..comments2024-03-28T13:20:29.156-07:00Comments on Shut up about Barclay Perkins: Guinness PorterRon Pattinsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-42973096151553598722007-12-20T00:49:00.000-08:002007-12-20T00:49:00.000-08:00Knut, almost right.Zythophile, interesting comment...Knut, almost right.<BR/><BR/>Zythophile, interesting comments. I've nicked them for my second post on Guinness Porter.Ron Pattinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03095189986589865751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-55325694626798545572007-12-19T07:57:00.000-08:002007-12-19T07:57:00.000-08:00Lynch and Vaizey (Guinness's Brewery in the Irish ...Lynch and Vaizey (Guinness's Brewery in the Irish Economy: 1759-1876) offer somew reasons for all these, as I recall - one effect of the Potato Famine was that rural Ireland did, as it recovered from the disaster, at least change from a subsistence economy to a money economy, which meant people now had the cash to buy beer - previously they'd have had to swap a pig for (a) an unfeasibly large quantity of beer that would go off before it eran out or (b) a reasonable quantity of whiskey. So beer sales went up in rural areas, and Guinness seems to have been the Dublin brewer that took advantage of this. IIRC, funnily, the rural market was largely stout rather than porter, and Dublin was the big porter market - even in the 1950s, aparently, barmen in Dublin would recognise you were a culchee if you ordered stout ...<BR/><BR/>Guinness didn't export much porter to England because they were worried it wiould be passed off as stout, or mixed with stout - Liverpool was about the only place porter went to, apparently ...Zythophilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07169961035352165436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445569787371915337.post-65906729059028620142007-12-19T05:51:00.000-08:002007-12-19T05:51:00.000-08:00All of it?All of it?Knut Alberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09330987617984777530noreply@blogger.com