Guinness Brewery On Fire
Dec 21st, 2009 | By Bock | Category: BockWord is coming through of a fire in the Guinness brewery.
If these reports are correct, we’re looking at a national disaster for Ireland unparallelled in modern times.
Beside this catastrophe, everything else recedes into triviality. Forget the economic meltdown. Forget NAMA. Forget mass unemployment. Forget being ruled by a foreign dictator.
My friends, this is nothing short of a crisis and it could lead to grave civil unrest.
An Ireland bereft of porter can never be at peace.
Pray that this calamity can be averted.
Pray my friends. Pray!!!
A national day of mourning is called for.
It certainly is. Or even a state of emergency.
This is the spark the powder keg needed. To the bar……..ricades!
Just left the pub.The Beamish was excellent.
hold on, i thought we were boycotting guinness, sugar. xoxoxo
Bloody hell!! There is NOTHING worse than a warm pint of stout….
Savannah,
you spotted it, it was just a ruse to make us think he wasn’t up in the big smoke about ten to three setting a fire and shouting. I’ll give ya Arthurs Day / Guiness 250 ya bastards.
I’ll even bet he got seconds out to post for him just to provide an alibi . . . like.
What can I do? It’s better (if dearer) beer.
National Emergency declared in Ireland
________________________________________
A major fire is reported to have broken out in Ireland’s main Guinness production plant in Dublin.
A call out went out on Monday to all fire-fighters and station staff across the country to attend to assist in putting the fire out.
Observers have reported that the fire-fighters have been seen desperately running up onto the roof to assist in bravely tackling the fire head on and then running back down to the stores.
It is believed that a considerable proportion of the companies stocks will be lost by the time the fire is eventually put out at the current rate estimated by the Head of the Fire Service.
He is reported to have said that the entire force was rallying around and was prepared to got he extra mile in order to save this national asset at such a special time of year (hic!)
It was later reported that 2 members of the attending crews were slightly singed after getting too close to the flames.
The two firefighters are reported to be in a stable condition at St James’s Hospital, where attending nurses have them firmly in hand.
Bock, is there any end to the woes of the Gael?. I feel that something good has soon to happen in Ireland as it seems to have more than its share of iconic collapse. First the RC church and the banks and Gerry Adams and now Guinness brewery. What next?. What more bedivelment (a word I have consructed myself)can be inflicted on your landsmen. Then you have minus 8 celcius as well. Still things can get better in Ireland but I don,t know how. My sister in law rang to say she had minus 34c last night in central Norway if that is any comfort to you.
Some grinch texted me and told me that 100,000 pints were destroyed, put down if you like.Seeing as all proper Irish men begin drinking at about six months old and consume about 1,500 pints a year from that point on, that’s a entire life’s drinking gone up in smoke.Maybe the Pope will mention it in his Urbi et Orbi address from the Vatican on Christmas Day – but then again maybe he won’t. I guess that’s why we never had an Irish Pope.
Charles — there’s no end to our miserable misery.
no guinness to the irish is the equivalent as no one left to look down their noses to, to the english, all the english dead to the scots, hence no one to hate and no gay rugby players to the welsh, a real disaster of disasterous proportions
Fuck it, its all down to global warming! The barley was too dry after the drout of 2009!!
Those pesky Chinese, setting fire to our Guinness.
Mr TheLaw, which Welsh rugby players are you suggesting might be gay? And do they have a permatan?
BOCK – guys, Guinness is not the stuff it used to be. I’d put a bet on with anybody that the French owners have secretly changed and replaced vital natural ingredients for cheaper chemical substitutes in order to boost their profit margins. They may have just added a chemical to lengthen the shelf life or possibly something to make the head a little more white in colour to suit the modern younger discerning drinker, I don’t know what they’ve actually done but they have certainly fucked with the pint. Even the flavour has been tampered with. No doubt whatsoever in my mind.
I state this as I can no longer get the ‘bite’ from the pint of plain that it used to provide. It’s in the last six months that I noticed this. It was a gradual realization for me but they have definitely fucked with the pint of plain; absolutely no doubt about it.
They’ve made it soft and mushy, just like that ’smooth’ Beamish which is fine, nothing wrong with smooth and mushy if that’s to your liking, but it definitely is not to mine.
No thank you Diageo, I am now drinking only Heineken – a pint with a very definitive ‘bite’.
So we will all have to drink Maurice Pratts apples and pears for the summer, does anyone know where I can get a poitin still?
Oi Bock, whatever happened to the guinness boycott – why was’nt there an announcement at the end of it.
the sobriety has my head wrecked and the brown shite is most disconcerting…..and dont get me started on the non guinnessy farts….
Ah well, back on it with a vengance – (rubs hands with glee)
You won’t be getting any answer on that one Dessie, cept a deadly silence. Some of the boys have returned to St James Gate recently I noticed after a brief flirtation with other brews. The prodigal sons of “real” porter they are, although some of us remain defiant. Our numbers dwindle every night though. The insurrection is effectively over.
Just as well the revolution was’nt televised then……
Had a half galon this afternoon – absolutely lip smacking great……
Well actually, as it happens, my revolution goes on, if a little quietly.
Same thing happened in the little medieval town of Bamberg in Eastern Bavaria two hundred years ago. One of their forty seven breweries went on fire. Guessen Sie Watt? They turned it to their adwantage. To this day you kann enjoy a Rauchbier, or smoked beer, in the self same Brauerei. It’s delicious. It’s the smoked salmon of all beers.