#green beer

[petermorwood]

St Patrick's Day Beer Is Black...

At least it should be: Guinness, Beamish, Murphy's, and various others from craft breweries around Ireland fit the description nicely.

So, in fact, does this.

Though it's a bit harder to find, people who find Guinness (etc.) stout "too heavy" usually like it, because it's a black lager and has the dark bitterness of stout without the "weight".

Green beer, on the other hand...

Well, there's a legitimate version, though it's not Irish. Meet Berliner Weissbier mit Waldmeistersirop, Berlin wheat beer with woodruff syrup:

Berlin Weissbier without syrup is a golden beer, and quite sour, hence the traditional addition of Waldmeister (woodruff) or Himbeer (strawberry RASPBERRY!); straws and wide goblets or squat tumblers are also traditional:

When @dduane and I were at a convention in Germany, we were told (true or not?) that people who didn't mind the sourness of the un-syruped beer sometimes drank "Ampeln" - traffic lights - during an evening out.

I've yet to get to Berlin, and Bavarian Weizenbier is a completely different creature to Berliner Weisse, but the city, the beer and a bunch of other things are all on my bucket list.

As for green beer in Ireland, time was I'd have said you'd never see it here even at St Patrick's, but time was, time is, times change, and tourists want Stuff.

That's probably why, when I was ambling past a pub in Dame Lane a few years ago, I saw a sign.

And when I got closer, the sign did indeed say what I thought it said.

So I went straight into the pub, sat down at the bar, took a deep breath...

...And ordered a Guinness.

:->

[bearnakedbaker]

SiP RESPONSiBLY

[irishmansdaughter]

[holly-days]

by RDNE Stock project

[scarletvixen]

red hair and green beer - a perfect combination on St. Patrick's Day!

[shamrocks-and-shenanigans]

[floridaboiler]

[wigoutlet]

St. Patrick's Day Boston Irish Skulls, Shamrocks, and Beer

by WigOutlet

[tha-moz]

Had to have at least one green beer today!

🍀🍀🍀

[lifeinspired4u]

[swampfairys]

Green Beer Crew

https://www.zazzle.com/z/ad1tni54?rf=238991879542948705

[wineandthrandy]

Thrandy had too much green beer tonight and thinks he's turning into a leprechaun ☘🍀🍻🤢🤮🤪🤭🤣🤣

[datdisney]

Celebrating saint Patrick’s day the way god intended ! With green beer and axe throwing !

[andi-o-geyser]

a full SAGA of chaos choices at the diner in the centre of your mind

[nickv47]

The St Patrick’s Shark likes to hang in the harbor to keep celebrating well after the St Patrick’s Day holiday.

Links to my shops on nickvolkert.com!

[kevinpsb00]

I am a member of Toastmasters and had to do a speech, and I'm on the Engaging Humor Pathway and this speech focused on 'Know Your Sense of Humor'. I titled my speech "Humor in a Cup of Tea" about humor and jokes in Ireland and my family visits there when I was kid. It was also about St. Patrick and my thoughts on the holiday. What made it work was that I was able to do the entire six speech in an Irish Accent, specifically a Northern Irish accent. This redo of the speech here isn't as good, but doing in front of people live actually turned out better than I expected. People laughed, Wow. I can be funny. ;) #Toastmasters #Toastmasters4Writers #Speech #Humor #Irish #StPatricksDay #StPatrick #SaintPatrick #Ireland #NorthernIreland #TheTroubles #IrishAccent #NorthernIrishAccent #Acting #VoiceActing #VoiceActor #VoiceOver #VoiceOverArtist #Ulster #UlsterFry #Tea #Shamrock #greenbeer #green