On May 17, 10:22 pm, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > On May 17, 2:39?am, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> > > Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On May 15, 8:26?pm, "John W." <worthj1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > On May 15, 12:06?am, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:>http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fv20100509a1.html
>
> > > > > > Since an RV won't work on the Japanese roads :-)
>
> > > > > I wish I had a few weeks of vacation to just cruise around somewhere.
> > > > > I always thought the 88 temples could be done relatively quickly by
> > > > > bike.
> > > > If I ever had a few weeks of vacation, it probably wouldn't be wasted
> > > > in Shikoku! (apologies to shikokuans...)
> > > > I've "done" about 15 of the 88, but only in Tokushima and Ehime, and
> > > > not in any particular order. If I wanted to get fit or something, then
> > > > maybe a bike trip. The problem with Shikoku is that its hard to find
> > > > Guinness on tap.
>
> > > Never understood the fascination with Guiness; I like British, US, and
> > > Australian stouts much more. Irish stouts just don't seem to have any
> > > flavor.
> > I prefer Beamish or Murphy's to Guinness, but they are even harder to
> > find, especially on-tap. I don't know of any Australian stouts, and
> > apart from boutique breweries, didn't know they even exist. Outside
>
> The most popular here is Tooth Sheaf, but Cooper's makes an excellent
> one as well.

Cooper's is pretty much a boutique (albeit a good one, and
increasingly large one). They didn't make a stout during the time I
was in Australia, or if they did, it didn't make it to Sydney. Made an
excellent series of ales and had the best home brewing kits.

Tooth's and Co went bankrupt when I was a kid. I've no idea who owns
the name these days, but the Kent Brewery is an apartment complex
opposite the Broadway campus of UTS.

> > the Irish community in Sydney, nobody I know seems to drink stouts at
> > all.
>
> The Japanese make some decent "stouts", but they have the body of a
> porter, to me.

Baird Brewing in Numazu make(/made?) a nice brew, the "shimaguni
stout". Bryan the owner is an American though.