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- From: ulick@bernini.helios.nd.edu (Ulick Stafford)
- Subject: Re: Buffalo Beer Fest 1992
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.171528.19141@news.nd.edu>
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- Organization: OUC, University of Notre Dame
- References: <BxH0rn.IyM@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1992Nov22.184812.10246@bradford.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:15:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.184812.10246@bradford.ac.uk> S.S.B.Glover@bradford.ac.uk (SSB GLOVER) writes:
- >Good to see Guinness with a presence, even if they did bring the execrable harp
- >with them -- a true "Black and Tan" (Ask Ulick for the derivation ;-)) is made
- >from stout and bitter, not stout an lager -- lager tends to be too thin.
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- Well, it's quite simple. Guinness is Black (well very dark ruby), and a bitter
- is tan (lager really isn't), so you call the combination a Black 'n' Tan :-).
- As regards other balck and tans, so called because they wore a combination
- of civilian and military surplu ware (usually black and khaki), they have
- nothing to do with beer, except that their arrival was around the same
- time as another evil British introduction to Ireland - closing time :-).
- (I may be wrong about this, though the introduction of the weird hours in
- England and Wales, was because you couldn't have soldiers fighting with
- faulty shells assembled by drunk araments plant workers. From the same
- global mindset that caused prohibitions the world over).
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