Word: stouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pounds when he heard the Arabs pledging huge sums. On his return to Dublin, the head of the Central Bank said to him gloomily, "My God, man, do you realize what you've done? Now the government will have to put another penny tax on a pint of stout...
There is lager, that aged beer, redolent of malt and yeast, as cold as a riverbed and as hearty as an anthem. Or ale, with an aroma the patron can walk on. Or porter and stout, those distinct dark ales with creamy heads and the personality of Irish storytellers. Or bock beer, with its heady perfume and heavy persuasive taste. Or malt liquor-but the list is endless...
...Dunster St. is pretentious and overpriced, but sometimes a pleasant place. There are too few barmaids, and service is slow as death. But they've got Guinness Stout...
...referee. James Joyce smiled benignly from several wall posters, four signs urged me to join the IRA, and behind the bar rolled Tommy, the spherical bartender who had taken enough time off from hustling customers at the pool table to come back and draw a few glasses of Guiness stout. Feeling serene, I sat down for a night of beer and blarney...
...lunacy afoot in the councils of government, the gruesome and untimely deaths of several key characters, and a goodly share of promiscuity and homosexuality in high places. The result is another embarassingly improbable but predictable romp through Drury's private fantasy-land, a fanciful world where the wise and stout-hearted members of the establishment fight their usual never-ending holy war against the misguided and often wicked forces of extremism and oppression...