They need to provide recycling opportunities for the street drinking teens who have no other option than to stuff cans into hedges.. that's being facetious but it makes more sense than this stupid proposal. Another publican inspired law.
The effect on small producers / importers of low volume products is a disgrace.
And without the wife raising an eyebrow as to the quantity 🤨
I could turn to whiskey but she thinks if I buy one this Christmas I should still have some left next Christmas!
I'd be surprised if on street recycling bins would do much. Look at the recycling bins next time you're at the airport, people don't bother to figure out which bin is which.
It doesn't, but my comment was in response to someone saying people who recycle would do so anyway, and people who didn't bother still wouldn't bother. The deposit will apply equally to the cans in a €20 slab of macro eurolager as it will to a €5 can of 8.5% DIPA.
Saw someone last week at the Stade de France as we all left walking back up the steps with about a giant stack of about 70 plastic cups he'd collected; apparently worth €2 each on return!
Based on what I see in other countries, homeless people will collect street dumped containers for the deposit. This is not a positive argument for having such a scheme.
This system was well in place in Sweden in 1996! Seemed to work well there, then.
People would say that the empties after a party would pay for breakfast.
I think it's bonkers that bottles aren't included in the system.
Used this in Germany back in 2011. It works well. You bring your empties to the front of the store and are issued a receipt which is scanned at the checkout and is deducted from your shopping.
There's an Aldi in Cork with a kiosk outside in preparation for this.
We has a system in Ireland where you put it in your recycling bin.
That worked too. And I really don't feel like having to drag a load of empty cans on the bus with me going shopping.
I'd image if we had a high level of recycling of cans already, there would have been no need for change.
The problem wasn't the people who were already recycling, it was the people who weren't recycling. That should be pretty obvious.
I was reusing and reducing the use of plastic bags for years before they introduced the plastic bag levy. It didn't change my behaviour but I still had to pay the levy. It was introduced to change other people's behaviour, not people like me but it doesn't work unless everyone pays.
You always have the option to continue to put them in your recycling.
Anyone any experience with Leipzig for bars?
Might actually do one night in Berlin also, mainly cause it seems Leipzig is quite boring and I'm flying to/from BER anyway (Ryanair are dropping LEJ for the winter and I'm the only one in the couple that will even fly Ryanair in the first place)
This year's trouble brewing pumpkin is fairly solid, managed to balance out the cinnamon. €5 a pint in underdog as well.
Brú House is off the GBB website and someone who lives locally has told me its shut. The building was owned by the brewery I believe and was up for sale.
merged with Galway bay brewery, more here.
If only doing one night in Berlin, I was going to suggest the Stone brewery tour and taproom. It was genuinely excellent and a great change from drinking weissbier all day. However, it's gone now and was taken over by Brewdog.
No idea what it's like since the takeover, to be honest, but the lineup seems decent enough, if a little pricey: https://untappd.com/v/dogtap-berlin/8952993
It's a pity as the Stone taproom was chock full of new beers that you'd never heard of and plenty of collaborations etc. Even their regular range would be novel to plenty of craft beer drinkers, I'd wager......how many people have even heard of, say, arrogant b@stard?**
**present company excluded, of course
Ah, that's a shame. It was always reasonably busy when I've been in and was a great location for meeting up for a craft beer when I didn't feel like a noisy city centre pub. (Never been near it on a Croke Park match day!). Haven't been in since the roadworks in the area started, though. To be replaced by a generic Heineken/Diageo tap lineup, no doubt.
To be replaced by apartments - is my bet.
Check out the Muted Horn in Berlin
Yeah, big empty lot behind it, and the old cinema building connected there too.
Can't assist with Leipzig, but had 3 nights in Berlin last year and spent a portion of 2 of them below.
Good beer, good food (after a few beers 😉), and service was excellent.
https://hm.lemke.berlin/
Same on the Kwaremont for Tour of Flanders - (sturdy) plastic glasses, and I think it was 6 got you a beer token. Lads going around balancing a couple of metre high stacks.
Is the cinema not a Tesco Extra now? It's not like there's a real shortage of pubs in the area (though the one to the right, past Gaffneys, closed a few years ago after a shooting), but there is a shortage of pubs with decent beer, and I'd been an occasional customer there since they had the separate Barony pub out the back.
Maybe there's a chance they'll build apartments but retain the pub on the ground floor, like The Big Tree.
Was jokin!
The front became Tesco. There's door to the left of Tesco that connects to the cinema. It was run by Buena Vista for years for private screenings.
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Craft Central have added a bunch of €9-10+ US imports.
They've also added some Omnipollo & friends stouts, going for the princely sum of €47.50 - €55 for a single bottle of beer.
https://craftcentral.ie/collections/new-arrivals/products/friday-2023?variant=47423260426581
Has to be the most expensive beer ever sold in Ireland surely? Genuinely don't think I know anyone who would shell out for that.
They've also added a few €30+ bottles from Transient Artisan Ales out of the US. I don't know what market they are going for...
Maybe that just missed a decimal point when adding the listings....
I did see last week they've listed some 8% pastry stouts by Larkin for less than €4 which seems like remarkable value.
https://craftcentral.ie/collections/stouts
There's a restaurant/pub in CHQ in Dublin that used to sell a few unique bottles. Never seen/heard of anyone buying them but they're gone from the menu now. They had a 3L bottle of the blue Chimay for €160 back in 2019 or so. Nearly certain I have a photo somewhere.
