Boards A/R Xmas Beers Saturday 7th December 8pm Palace Bar(optional pub crawl)

menoscemo

Which venue?

I am including the yelp.ie page for each of the bars in question, so you can read some reviews.
I think they are all fine pubs. Just bear in mind that Against the grain is all craft beers as I think is JW sweetmans? The others have a mixture of both craft and commercial beers except Mcgrattans which stocks no craft beers.....

Anyway get voting. I'll make the vote Multiple choice so you can pick a few different venues if you like.

Against the Grain

McGrattans

The Long Hall

Palace Bar (Fleet St, not Camden St!!)

Mulligans

JW Sweetman (formerly Messrs maguire)

Voting closes in 1 week!!

blockic

Mulligans

I associate McGrattans with the marathon so gonna leave that one off.

Like the look of the Palace bar and the craft choice in Against the Grain so went either of those two. :cool:

TRR

JW Sweetman

blockic wrote: »

I associate McGrattans with the marathon so gonna leave that one off.

Like the look of the Palace bar and the craft choice in Against the Grain so went either of those two. :cool:

Don't forget you have to apply for a Dublin visa! We need to closely monitor the numbers of langers on the streets of our fair city

blockic

Mulligans

TRR wrote: »

Don't forget you have to apply for a Dublin visa! We need to closely monitor the numbers of langers on the streets of our fair city

I'll have the cork passport in tow!

AuldManKing

JW Sweetman

blockic wrote: »

I associate McGrattans with the marathon so gonna leave that one off.

Like the look of the Palace bar and the craft choice in Against the Grain so went either of those two. :cool:

If you have 1 in both, that'll be your lot for the night...........

Cleanman

JW Sweetman

I don't really mind where we go.....all are in walking/stumbling distance from me. Training is going really well although I've not got into the craft beers yet. Been doing a bit of running too:rolleyes:

pconn062

JW Sweetman

Not going to vote cause I don't know any of these places. Don't mind where we go, happy to follow the crowd.

menoscemo

Mulligans

pconn062 wrote: »

Not going to vote cause I don't know any of these places. Don't mind where we go, happy to follow the crowd.

Ah come on, we need someone to break the tie. Click each of the venues for a little review and pick accordingly...

pconn062

JW Sweetman

menoscemo wrote: »

Ah come on, we need someone to break the tie. Click each of the venues for a little review and pick accordingly...

Yes boss. I like old fashioned pubs so went with the Palace Bar and Mulligans.

menoscemo

Mulligans

pconn062 wrote: »

Yes boss. I like old fashioned pubs so went with the Palace Bar and Mulligans.

Fecking Culchies

pconn062

JW Sweetman

menoscemo wrote: »

Fecking Culchies

I demand at least one aul boy sitting in the corner with a pipe!

menoscemo

Mulligans

pconn062 wrote: »

I demand at least one aul boy sitting in the corner with a pipe!

You'd love the Palace so, plenty of aul lads downstairs sipping on whisky.
About 10 years ago I was there till late and we had a nice old style lock in (not sure they'd get away with that anymore :rolleyes:). Great boozer, been in the same family hands for the last 100+ years ( I think it was featured in a recent docu/film about traditional Irish pubs).

Edit: That's it at 41 seconds!!

blockic

Mulligans

menoscemo wrote: »

( I think it was featured in a recent docu/film about traditional Irish pubs).

Edit: That's it at 41 seconds!!

Haha!

"Name, Address and Creamary Number before you even get a drink!"

Classic!

menoscemo

Mulligans

Wow, Messrs maguire is not proving too popular!!
I also see a distinct lack of people who want to go to a 'craft beer only' pub :pac:

digger2d2

menoscemo wrote: »

Wow, Messrs maguire is not proving too popular!!
I also see a distinct lack of people who want to go to a 'craft beer only' pub :pac:

Are you trying to influence the outcome?

drquirky

JW Sweetman

Why don;t we just crash the Sportsworld X-Mas party, get trashed, wreck the place and tell everyone that we are from the "Knockloyn Joggers Athletic Club"

Marthastew

JW Sweetman

pconn062 wrote: »

I demand at least one aul boy sitting in the corner with a pipe!

Digger has promised to bring his pipe;)

Cue barrage of pipe inuendo jokes:rolleyes:

menoscemo

Mulligans

digger2d2 wrote: »

Are you trying to influence the outcome?

No I am totally impartial
I'd actually prefer a craft beer place myself but the 'people' have the right to decide.

digger2d2

drquirky wrote: »

Why don;t we just crash the Sportsworld X-Mas party, get trashed, wreck the place and tell everyone that we are from the "Knockloyn Joggers Athletic Club"

You'd need to have wet grass on your feet to appear authentic

digger2d2

Marthastew wrote: »

Digger has promised to bring his pipe;)

Cue barrage of pipe inuendo jokes:rolleyes:

My pipe innuendo?

RayCun

drquirky wrote: »

Why don;t we just crash the Sportsworld X-Mas party, get trashed, wreck the place and tell everyone that we are from the "Knockloyn Joggers Athletic Club"

you can't mention 'athletics', they'd get all confused :rolleyes:

ThePiedPiper

Mulligans

The only thing that's confusing me is why we're not starting in the afternoon just after the jingle bells race? Anyone else up for that?

pconn062

JW Sweetman

RunForestRun wrote: »

The only thing that's confusing me is why we're not starting in the afternoon just after the jingle bells race? Anyone else up for that?

I was just thinking that, we're going to be in Dublin anyway so I'm definitely in. Bit of lunch and a few pints, be grand!

menoscemo

Mulligans

RunForestRun wrote: »

The only thing that's confusing me is why we're not starting in the afternoon just after the jingle bells race? Anyone else up for that?

We could deffo go to Ryans after the race...

ThePiedPiper

Mulligans

Nice one.. I think there's more of a chance of me just hanging round for a couple of afternoon pints, rather than the whole day and night.. see how it goes anyway.

tang1

pconn062 wrote: »

Bit of lunch

Eating is cheating for god sake:P:P:P

KielyUnusual

Mulligans

RunForestRun wrote: »

The only thing that's confusing me is why we're not starting in the afternoon just after the jingle bells race? Anyone else up for that?

I think the drinks after the race were assumed. Of course you have to have a bite to eat and a few pre-drinks in the afternoon. Then we can start drinking drinking at 8 o'clock in the Palace, or wherever the voting public chooses.

pconn062

JW Sweetman

tang1 wrote: »

Eating is cheating for god sake:P:P:P

Believe me, it's prettier than the alternative!

tang1

Oh i know, i was at a GS do years ago had drank my body weight in red wine. Went to toilet and done the gentlemanly thing and got sick in the toilet not urinal. Now red wine puke looks a bit like blood if you dont look to close, one of my mates went to toilet not to long after me and had a fit(not drink related) in same toilet i got sick.

Next man to go to toilet was a high ranking investigator in the guards, seen my pal & puke, place was shut down quicker than a whoors knickers. The same man was loooking for promotion big time. Sirens, blue lights everywhere. He came out and said " Unknown is after gettin stabbed in the toilet" . He wasn't best impressed when i told him it was my red wine puke:p:p

statss

have a prior engagement in the evening but can throw the head in for an afternoon pint, certainly.

blockic

Mulligans

This has lost momentum, have we peaked too early??

menoscemo

Mulligans

blockic wrote: »

This has lost momentum, have we peaked too early??

Hopefully we can get a bit more chat going once the venue is finally decided tomorrow.
For the voters: I will have the final decision in the event of a tie :pac:

TRR

JW Sweetman

I should be good to go. I went for the Palace bar or Mulligans. One worry would be that we may not get room in the Palace bar if that wins out.

menoscemo

Mulligans

TRR wrote: »

I should be good to go. I went for the Palace bar or Mulligans. One worry would be that we may not get room in the Palace bar if that wins out.

It's a bit tight downstairs alright but they have an upstairs section they open at the weekend. If it wins out I'll give them a ring and see if they can reserve us a corner...

digger2d2

menoscemo wrote: »

It's a bit tight downstairs alright .

That comment belongs in After Hours Frothy

drquirky

JW Sweetman

Just to throw a spanner in the works... what about a pub crawl? Encapsulate the named pubs people voted on - haven't been on a pub crawl in ages and it could be good fun...


Something like-

5pm Mulligans

6pm Sweetmans

7pm Long Hall

8pm to finish Palace Bar-

Just a thought as good be adopted to suit those wanting afternoon drinking and would keep things moving and lively! (drunken) We could even run between pubs lol

menoscemo

Mulligans

drquirky wrote: »

Just to throw a spanner in the works... what about a pub crawl? Encapsulate the named pubs people voted on - haven't been on a pub crawl in ages and it could be good fun...


Something like-

5pm Mulligans

6pm Sweetmans

7pm Long Hall

8pm to finish Palace Bar-

Just a thought as good be adopted to suit those wanting afternoon drinking and would keep things moving and lively! (drunken) We could even run between pubs lol

Wearing Christmas Jumpers??

From what i saw of you at the Bros Pearce quiz night, I am not sure you would make it to 3 or 4 different pubs :pac:

Edit, If we were doing that we should go to the 4 most popular in some kind of Straight line; so I'd suggest:
Start in Against the grain at 5pm- Long Hall @ 6pm; Mulligans at 7pm and the Palace at 8pm....

morceli

The Palace Bar

drquirky wrote: »

Just to throw a spanner in the works... what about a pub crawl? Encapsulate the named pubs people voted on - haven't been on a pub crawl in ages and it could be good fun...


Something like-

5pm Mulligans

6pm Sweetmans

7pm Long Hall

8pm to finish Palace Bar-

Just a thought as good be adopted to suit those wanting afternoon drinking and would keep things moving and lively! (drunken) We could even run between pubs lol

sure"The 12 mile pubs of christmas" ... 12 pubs 1 mile apart

pconn062

JW Sweetman

drquirky wrote: »

Something like-

5pm Mulligans

6pm Sweetmans

7pm Long Hall

8pm to finish Palace Bar-

12pm: straight after the race......anywhere!!

menoscemo

Mulligans

Just realised that's it decided.
Palace Bar for the Xmas beers at 8pm on the 7th (with optional pub crawl beforehand).

I'll just get a mod to ammend the thread title...

Cleanman

JW Sweetman

menoscemo wrote: »

Just realised that's it decided.
Palace Bar for the Xmas beers at 8pm on the 7th (with optional pub crawl beforehand).

I'll just get a mod to ammend the thread title...

Never been there so looking forward to it. Not running the JB now. They're looking for volunteers and since I'm the worst person in the world for helping with these things, I've signed up to help. I can still drink beer after, right??

RacoonQueen

Cleanman wrote: »

Never been there so looking forward to it. Not running the JB now. They're looking for volunteers and since I'm the worst person in the world for helping with these things, I've signed up to help. I can still drink beer after, right??

You can also drink beer the night before since you're not racing and it'll be cold standing around stewarding so you may as well bring a hip flask to sip on to keep you warm

Murph_D

JW Sweetman

menoscemo wrote: »

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Edit, If we were doing that we should go to the 4 most popular in some kind of Straight line; so I'd suggest:
Start in Against the grain at 5pm- Long Hall @ 6pm; Mulligans at 7pm and the Palace at 8pm....

Just when I thought I was out, I got sucked back in.

Cleanman

JW Sweetman

RacoonQueen wrote: »

You can also drink beer the night before since you're not racing and it'll be cold standing around stewarding so you may as well bring a hip flask to sip on to keep you warm

The more beer I drink, the less I run. And the less I run, the more beer I tend to drink.....this is a damn hard cycle to get out of;)

menoscemo

Mulligans

Ok folks less than 2 weeks to go so about time to see who is actually going to go to this.
Also interested to see who is up for the Pre-Beers warmup Pub Crawl to see if it is worth going ahead with!!
The plan of action is:
Against the Grain @ 5pm -> The Long Hall @ 6pm -> Mulligans @ 7pm and Palace Bar at 8pm

Please list your name below (with comments if necessary) so we know who to expect.

Pub Crawl (as listed above)
Meno (will try to make the first pub if there is an interest)

Beers: (Palace Bar @ 8pm)
Meno

TRR

JW Sweetman

menoscemo wrote: »

Ok folks less than 2 weeks to go so about time to see who is actually going to go to this.
Also interested to see who is up for the Pre-Beers warmup Pub Crawl to see if it is worth going ahead with!!
The plan of action is:
Against the Grain @ 5pm -> The Long Hall @ 6pm -> Mulligans @ 7pm and Palace Bar at 8pm

Please list your name below (with comments if necessary) so we know who to expect.

Pub Crawl (as listed above)
Meno (will try to make the first pub if there is an interest)

Beers: (Palace Bar @ 8pm)
Meno

Jesus Meno would you not just start at noon to get a good run at the day

RayCun

I thought the day started with cans in the Phoenix Park after the race?

blockic

Mulligans

Please list your name below (with comments if necessary) so we know who to expect.

After Jingle Bells - Ryans
blockic

Pub Crawl (as listed above)
Meno (will try to make the first pub if there is an interest)
blockic

Beers: (Palace Bar @ 8pm)
Meno
blockic

Sorted it for you TRR Go big or don't bother going out.*


*bed by 8

menoscemo

Mulligans

RayCun wrote: »

I thought the day started with cans in the Phoenix Park after the race?

We'll be having the cans in Donore Clubhouse while eating RQs chocolate cake

KielyUnusual

Mulligans

After Jingle Bells - Ryans
blockic
KU (For just the one of course, it would be rude not to)

Pub Crawl (as listed above)
Meno (will try to make the first pub if there is an interest)
blockic
KU

Beers: (Palace Bar @ 8pm)
Meno
blockic
KU

drquirky

JW Sweetman

After Jingle Bells - Ryans[/B]
blockic
KU (For just the one of course, it would be rude not to)
DQ (only if under 16:30)
Pub Crawl (as listed above)
Meno (will try to make the first pub if there is an interest)
blockic
KU
DQ (might not be the first pub but till be there for sure
Beers: (Palace Bar @ 8pm)
Meno
blockic
DQ
KU