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No green beer!

POSTED
Mar, 2008
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Joe Power

Joe Power




Show a little common sense, will you? Coloring bad beer green doesn’t make it any better and coloring good beer is just criminal. Don’t drink this stuff. Ever!

Guinness Irish StoutIf you want to celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day by drinking some beer why not drink some authentic Irish beer instead of American mass-produced swill with food coloring in it? Doesn’t that make more sense? Will you be lining up for green chop suey or dyed pizza? No, that would be stupid. You will be eating corned beef and cabbage, or shepherd’s pie. Have a decent beer with it.

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