Four stouts from our local cornershop
Last week, we tasted four strong stouts from our local cornershop.
We know Guinness Foreign Extra is good and wanted to see how the others on the market compared.
So, we got a bottles of:
Dublin-made Guinness FES…
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Walking past the pub
I was suddenly compelled
To stop for a spell
Written by Captain Hops.
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