Let me push that stool in for you: the off-topic thread

Black Sheep

Any Belfast city centre pub recommendations… Perhaps for craft beer, but not necessarily (interesting interiors / architecture also considered)?

irish_goat

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Sunflower is my go to pub, good prices, good pizza, a great selection of taps and a generally nice atmosphere. Scraggy is £5.20 a pint and for comparison elsewhere you are looking at £6.40+ for a pint of macro.

Out of Office taproom is worth popping into if you are visiting at the weekend. If not, their downstairs bar Ulster Sports Club is cool, but gets a younger crowd.

The Crown is well renowned architecturally and has a few craft beers on tap/cask. Can be very busy with tourists and tour groups.

The Spaniard has a pretty cool interior downstairs whilst upstairs has a slightly kitsch, granny's living room feeling with dozens of religious frames all round the room. Haven't been in in a while but I think it's just bottles of craft.

White's Tavern claims to the oldest pub in town (1630) and has a cozy, traditional interior. No decent beer though.

The Duke of York is probably the most quintessential "Irish pub" and is covered in old style advertising for beer and other goods. No craft beer on tap but they have bottles of their house beer made by Modest Beer at Lineman Brewery.

Black Sheep

Great reply, thanks! There are a few pubs I hadn't heard of there, I only know the older, landmark ones.

Pen Rua

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Boundary Taproom is good, and is close to Bullhouse (though I have not been to the latter). Accessible by public transport form the city centre itself.

Black Sheep

Having a Three Crowns peated and a pint of Our Brewery hazy pale ale in The Sunflower. Great pub, never would have found it without the recommendation.

Suckler

Hope this is the right thread to ask this - Wine Storage; is a shed an ok place to store it? Ordinary domestic metal shed/not insulated.

We keep wine in the house at the moment but there's always a good selection of it and I'd like to get it out of my way. I've no interest/knowledge of wine but I wouldn't like to see it all ruined either.

odyssey06

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In summer there'd be a risk of it getting too hot in the sun, during our occasional heatwaves eg

Wine storage temperatures should never go over 24˚c as otherwise, wines begin to oxidise, which negatively affects the wine.

https://wineware.co.uk/pages/wineware-wine-storage-temperature-guide

For most of the year it'd be alright, important to store them horizontally if they have corks.

Hotblack Desiato

Under the stairs could be a good place, dark and no direct heating but no exposure to cold either.

the beer revolu

Bertha's Revenge are shutting up shop.

Things don't look good in the micro distilling world at all. Killarney gone, Blackwater gone through a rescue package. Powerscourt restructuring.

Anyone else gone or in trouble?

Hotblack Desiato

Too many overpriced "me too" products. Then with whiskey you have to wait at least 3 years for a return

Boardnashea

Any recommendation for a simple cocktail for tomorrow evening? Was thinking of a Wisconsin Old Fashioned via Anders but open to ideas.

But where do I go for nice cocktail cherries round these parts?

the beer revolu

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Long Island whisky sour.

Looks great, tastes great and is a little bit unusual.