“and focus on, you know, making beer.”

Further hack: reduce single-use plastics like cling-film and ziplock bags by using a range of sealable containers. You easily build up a cache of food containers by reusing the containers that take-away food comes in. These are food safe and stackable.

It’s okay but we have better butter in Ireland 

As long as you don’t use the salted butter in any recipe that uses eggs.

You also need lard.

“I get to crack wise about the British for 12 whole weeks, something I’m absolutely allowed to do because some of my best friends are British.”

Ditto “bubblegum”

Anyway, if you are in Ireland (or just visiting), the recommendations would be St Mel’s Brown and Lough Gill’s McNutty- Lough Gill’s first head brewer hailed from Montana and was a total malt head. He’s since moved on and the new lad seems to have settled in nicely.

Brown Ale is one of my all time favourite styles. More malt notes than red/ambers but stops before the burnt/chocolate/coffee flavours of stouts and porters. The reason we don’t see more of them is hinted at in this article- it’s in the name. I’ve confirmed that with many brewers here in Ireland. My suggestion was to…

I once saw William Shatner speak in Dublin and he spoke about how he had been given a Black Velvet the night before which he described as “a great way to ruin two perfectly good drinks”

In Marbella last month and there’s already a Mahou/Founders IPA on the shelves.

Or, if you are in Ireland, Armagh.

Which is Guinness and champagne...

“What Stewart is referring to here is more properly known as ‘perry’”

They shoot shit? I know you Americans love your guns but even that sounds a little unsporting...

Yup, I understand Rab C. Nesbitt as well...

I don’t 

I just air dry the chicken in the fridge overnight and they cook it for 1.5 hours covered, 0.5 hours uncovered. Perfect crisp skin everytime. However it does depend on the quality of your bird-cheap chickens from discounters are usually plumped up with water, as well as being high fat yield breeds in the first place…

Good restaurants feed their staff, bad restaurants don’t. Choose your restaurant by how they treat their staff...

Or maybe not- 15 seconds into that video and he’s adding salt to the eggs!?!?! They’ll be scrambled eggs, but they won’t be “perfect”.