{"id":249,"date":"2014-08-26T05:08:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T17:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2014-08-27T06:19:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T18:19:06","slug":"waters-important-for-making-guinness-whys-it-all-falling-out-of-the-sky-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Water&#8217;s Important For Making Guinness; Why&#8217;s It All Falling Out Of The Sky Then?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s big thing was visiting this place,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140825-180748.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140825-180748.jpg\" alt=\"20140825-180748.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhere I had one of these,<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140825-180809.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140825-180809.jpg\" alt=\"20140825-180809.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a pretty slow start to the morning, and I spent a bunch of it sitting in the lobby on the comfy chairs, trying to summon the will to go out into the outside world.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not a bad walk to the Guinness Storehouse; Goes past some interesting buildings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140826-080312.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140826-080312.jpg\" alt=\"20140826-080312.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140826-191822.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/20140826-191822.jpg\" alt=\"20140826-191822.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tour &#8230; Well, it&#8217;s a tour of a showcase about a brewery, so you&#8217;ve got the 9000 year lease document, various things on brewing where a video of the brewer follows you around on video screens, explaining the process, that sort of thing.<br \/>\n<em>Creepily, they claim that the fifth ingredient of Guinness is Arthur Guinness, which makes <strong>me<\/strong> want to know exactly where he&#8217;s buried<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There was a tasting session, where the recommended drinking technique managed to make the aftertaste linger for the rest of the tour. Impressive, but not all that welcome, to be honest.<br \/>\nPart of the ticket price was a pint at the bar at the end of the tour, or at the Learn To Draw A Pint room, both of which I declined, as it seemed a waste to draw a pint I had no interest in drinking.<br \/>\nStill, a pleasant hour or so.<\/p>\n<p>It started drizzling on the walk back, then pissed down once I was clear of the area where I could catch a bus easily. I&#8217;m chalking that one up to the Authentic Dublin Experience, though I could have done without the traffic lights with ludicrously long phasing, so that you&#8217;re spending more time standing in the rain than actually moving.<br \/>\nSome seem deliberately rigged to need two phases to cross a road, leaving stranded in a little pedestrian corral in the centre; A bit odd in fine weather, but kind of very annoying in the wet.<\/p>\n<p>The afternoon\/evening was spent packing <em>(quite a lot of my bag is dirty laundry at this point)<\/em>, paying the bill to make tomorrow&#8217;s early departure a bit easier, and watching a bit of TV. <em>(The continuing adventures of Royal Marine Commando recruits, plus the second Scottish Independence debate, which got &#8230;  heated)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s big thing was visiting this place, Where I had one of these, It was a pretty slow start to the morning, and I spent a bunch of it sitting in the lobby on the comfy chairs, trying to summon the will to go out into the outside world. It&#8217;s not a bad walk to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday-2014"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3O6N9-41","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}