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- BBC Northern Ireland reporter Larry McCoubrey delivers a poetic send-off for porter. The "pint of plain" has long been an institution in many a Belfast bar, but it is a beer which is not long for this world.
Originally broadcast 11 May, 1973.
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“ 'If work was the curse of the drinking classes, then porter was their salvation.' Larry McCoubrey’s wonderfully written and gently paced news report on the final days of the ‘pint of plain’ acts as a eulogy not just to a drink, but to an entire way of life. A mini masterpiece." - Ronan
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'Work is the curse of the drinking classes.' Brilliant!
Oscar Wilde.
@@johnmc3862 in Oscar wilde's infamous libel trial the defence barrister was Edward Carson, the man who went on to help create northern ireland
I have a coffee mug with that inscription on it with a picture of a US Western or Southern hillbilly on it who is missing a few teeth. One of my favorites!
The last time I drank a pint of porter was in the Exmouth Arms, Clerkenwell on the 21st of July 2005. Why is my date so precise? Because it was the day Long John Baldry died. The spooky thing about this is that when I walked into the pub, the ‘juke box’ was playing “Someone Saved My Life Tonight” by Elton John (released in 1975). This song was a tribute by Elton John to Long John Baldry for Long John Baldry’s help in getting Elton John to come to terms with his homosexuality.
I know that the subsequent story is peripheral to the topic on porter, but I thought it worth mentioning. Besides, there was a tear drop that slightly diluted the contents of my glass.
@@tompurcell1499 Some chinese guy from the back of the pub; 'Hah, gayyyyyy'.
The level of oratory and unspoken, nostalgic emotion at the end was beautiful.
I found it verbose and tedious, it's a bloody drink not the end of civilisation.
Your comment made me laugh 😂 Nobody can do sarcasm like people from the UK
@@magesalmanac6424 My comment? Or the original poster?
@@user-et6pj4db9s In my opinion we don't have to lose something at a catastrophic level for it to effect us. It can be as simple as having something you thought would always be available in your daily life not be around anymore, like the focus of this piece. It's a stark reminder of the passage of time and how our creature comforts shape our way of viewing the world.
@@michael3556 oh please, he dribbles on way too long, Ive lost count of the number of food and drink items discontinued that were my favourites but I don't drone on about it in poetry.
“The cream is borne majestically above to form a clerical collar-that proves the goodness in its heart-and the true porter drinker would look upon such a glass with great reverence indeed.”
This guy goes hard
You can imagine that coming straight from the pen of Seamus Heaney.
Holly spirits for sure
LOL
You're right!
He's a regular Dylan Thomas.
The man knows beauty, and how to spell it
Porter has made a comeback in recent years. Lots of craft brewers make it and stouts too. Thankfully things are better than 20 years when if you closed your eyes all pub beer tasted the same.
You must have lived in another world than me 20 years ago
@ Silver. It was all Tetleys/John Smith’s smooth style stuff and bland lagers 20 years ago. Like I said tasteless and the same every pub you went in. Even in somewhere like Wetherspoons you get a decent choice now.
@@markb3915 100%
@@markb3915 You were going in the wrong pubs mate.
@@markb3915 Yup, you were going to the wrong pubs.
These were also, as I've just now discovered, numbered days for Larry McCoubrey himself. He left his programme Scene at Six in 1974 due to illness and, so says an article in the Irish Times, died shortly thereafter. It feels fitting to me, somehow, that his heartfelt eulogy for porter is also a testament to the genius of the man.
Thanks for that. He looked, and sounded like a fine Gentleman. Peace and goodwill.
I new someone who went to school with Larry McCoubrey. When he made a "remark" at the back of the class even his teachers would laugh
A pedant writes: The news prog was called "Scene Around Six" not "Scene at Six". It's even there in the title of the vid.
Hi Daniel. He died June 17th, 2004 so lived quite a bit after this programe, thank God. Cheers.
@@myratsalad Larry died of a brain haemorrhage in 1974
This sort of quality journalism is badly needed today.
Haven’t done their research though (Porter & Stout are from London). Cracking video though.
..youll have to settle for 'Big Zuus big eats' now .....😆
I'd say that with some of the better CZcams channels and podcasts we have much more of this type of Journalism then we used to.
@@krishnan-resurrection714 that’s not journalism tho is it. That’s entertainment
@Alexander Dobinson he says “we developed porter and stout” Porter is a London drink for sure, still very popular here. Yes we all associate stout with Ireland now thanks to those lovely people at Guinness, but both originated from London, which was my point, the presenter here got it wrong, hasn’t done his research, so not the quality journalism the OP desires…
Hats-off to that "re-PORTER" 😂👊🏻
Just go!
Excellent sir.
YA YA YA
Being from the archive, this upload is technically a re-report of this re-porter's report on porter 🧐👌
Could have used an emoji face with a pinky finger on the corner of the mouth?
Very witty, well done!
The reporter savoring this pint, admiring the history and relishing the taste is top-notch. I want to try it the old way.
Ive never wanted a pint more, this is the greatesr advert ive ever seen and its not even an advert
What a brilliant presenter: a poet...he absolutely delivered a master class in pace and vocabulary.
👍👏
I think the porter was helping him along.
Yeah. He's a regular Peter Mansbridge.
guess you could call him a re*porter*
Wonderful report. Almost genius in its pace and poetry.
Incidentally, porter was called "porter" because it was once so popular with the porters on London Docks and Covent Garden Market.
Them, and also "Ticket Porters" who were general labourers who carried parcels and other things in the days before a Post Office. They were probably the largest group, larger than Market Porters.
They drank Porter in Porterhouses, eating Porterhouse steak.
I want a pint.
It was a great report. It's tragic to note that the presenter, who wrote a lot of his own material, died suddenly of a brain hemorrhage at just 38 years old.
@@ignoblesurfer6281 I didn't know that. That's very sad to hear, he seems so very talented too.
@@ignoblesurfer6281 Christ, he looks 48 here.
I read some where that the last barrel of Porter to leave Guiness was given a decent send off.A load of men in funeral attire and bowler hats drank it and burried the empty cask with all due reverance. Whilst visiting St James's Gate a few years back.I noticed that Guiness say that Porter is just another name for stout. This vid would surgest otherwise. When in Ireland I drink bottled ,shelf Guinness
Let's hope it's true. A fantastic send off...
Irish people who know their history do not drink Guinness they drink Murphys
Me when talking about porter: "It's a drink that I quite like"
Reporter: speaks in literature
It’s really something, isn’t it? What a news report that was.
When things are wrong
and will not come right,
when things aren't going to plan,
when everything seems black as night, a pint of plain
is yer only man.
If Porter is a supposed acquired taste, then I was born with it.
What a fabulous piece of reporting. I've watched this a few times now, I love the imagery in his description.
I'd never heard of Larry McCoubrey before, so I had to look him up. Sadly he died of a brain haemorrhage the year after this was broadcast. He was only 38.
I found that article you looked up, because it is the only one where his age at the time of death is mentioned. But could that be a typo? There is no way that the guy presenting the piece is 37/38, even with all the drinks and smoking you could get away in the 70s and still be employed. And then I thought of Wayne Rooney, so - who knows.
@@user-kq5jz9oi2n that age will be correct. People used to look older at a younger age. Some people say it’s because of smoking, some say it’s the way they dressed, possibly nutrition played a part. But it’s a fact, look it up, people used to look older.
Yes indeed. It was a huge shock at the time as Larry was a very familiar face to Northern Ireland television viewers. He fronted Scene Around Six (BBC NI) for a good while taking over from the late Malcolm Kellard who'd moved on to other things. After Larrys sudden passing that role was filled by Barry Cowan, also sadly no longer with us.
He was definitely in his late 30's at the time of his death. Left a widow and young family. As mentioned already by other contributors, people back then often looked older than their actual age for various reasons.
Remember him well, sadly missed
"Porter: the drink that launched _thousands_ of ships."
Very good!
I wish i could go back in time to a pub and ask for this "pint of plain"
That poured pint was perfection in a glass, absolutely stunning
Shame it disappeared.
Work of art 👍
@@oscarosullivan4513 It disappeared because it stopped selling - nobody wanted it any more.
@@rodjones117 Which is a pity because they look creamy
@@oscarosullivan4513 I agree, but that's the market...
Larry was a wonderful reporter and loved by all the folks here in Northern Ireland .
If he hadn’t died he might have lived to see the founding of Hilden brewery.
Sure, he said "Derry" so good with me 😉
@@mossy199 Everyone called it that until the Troubles started. And even now many Protestants who live there call it Derry casually. The strict Unionist adherence to Londonderry is used by politicians etc. in interviews and by people who don’t actually live there.
@@mossy199do you lot have to bring politics and religion into everything?
@@mossy199come on man, no need for that
Lmao. He sipped that pint like he was playing Hamlet.
A good pint is worth it.
Indeed, this is best beer promotion I've ever seen.
The product is good
Alas poor Yorick.
I've never been able to stomach a full glass of beer in my life, but after watching this I mourn its loss like an old friend.
Porter has made a huge come back especially with craft beer
You are entirely of soft composition
@@chrishayes7771 I'm not sure if I've been complimented or insulted. Let me knock back a few and figure it out.
Is it a taste thing? I'm one of those people that tastes coriander and it's like soap.
I'm OK with beer though, and keep sampling to make sure.
@@Lazarus1095 Insulted
Porter is my absolute favorite type of beer. Doesn't get enough love, especially here in the United States. Cheers from around the Globe my friends!
There's a nice one made (seasonally, dammit) in Freeport, Maine.
@@emcee7670damn right there is! And in Fort Kent. Hairy Porter at First Mile brewing. And they pull it right too!
Try Denver Brewing Company!
It's now 2024 I'm 51 born in 73 and porter is now more popular than ever
Indeed! The Campaign For Real Ale has most certainly been successsful. Although, is the modern incarnation of the most popular porter the same thing anymore? I've never seen Guinness from a pump (been drinking for 25 years). And it's funny how they call it Stout now even though Guinness isn't stout. When did that come about
@@JB9000x Guinness is a stout.
Just not so heavy and with more gas.
Hahaha ,it’s just like being in a pub
I guess it's the time taken to pour that killed it off,. Today it's all about maximising throughput and so maintaining and pouring from 2 different barells would be regarded as nuts. I would loved to have tried it though.
@@JB9000x you ddn't have Guiness on a pump in England/Ireland? Even we have that in Sweden.
With no small irony, porter has seen something of a revival in England. It's not a mainstream pint, but rather a niche style with a decent following amongst beer drinkers.
The fact is that the people are beginning to be fed up by the I.P.A., or better, the multiple variations of the I.P.A. style... Many people are looking for more traditional and "true" styles, I think... Or, at least, I'm one of those...
I'm definitely a porter person, and have been since I tasted my first porter
I mean, it is originally from London, so it's not that strange it would get it's revival at it's original home before setting sail back to where it lived out it's effective retirement from being the most drank beer on earth.
@@GiandomenicoDeMola IPA’s will remain popular as it’s a varied beer that can bring about many profiles & flavours. With that being said though beer, specifically craft beer across the globe is seeing a renaissance once again. With this happening many beer drinkers are trying all the different types of brews & as such demanding traditional styles as well. Many craft breweries can produce traditional brews with tighter control due to smaller brew sizes, giving these traditional beers the time & care needed to show their true qualities.
@@GiandomenicoDeMola You're not alone. The prevalence of gimmicky IPAs that all taste the same (grapefruit predominantly) have sidelined the more traditional beers that kept good beer alive forty/fifty years ago. Even porter gets dicked about with...marshmallow, vanilla, cherry ffs
Drawing beer like this was probably the high point of human civilisation.
In the good old time when people had the patience to wait a couple of minutes for their drink, pubs were so inefficient that a waiter had to do several processing steps for every glass of beer, and drinkers were so dependable that the pubs could prepare before they arrived.
Reporter drinking and waxing poetically. Fantastic!!
incredible, powerful, movingly poetic.
Yes, a lovely eulogy to a tiny bit of working class culture.
No Borders One Flag 🇮🇪
@@danbreen6946 GTF with your political crap.
Give it a rest for five minutes.
Brings a tear to me eye.
Bloody hell I've never felt so emotional about the idea of a style of beer. While porter has made a resurgence and I am a fan of the modern style, I cannot help but feel like what I drink isn't that close to what those older generations were enjoying.
Absolutely exquisite monologue.
I’ve had both. The modern stuff can be just as good. Just make sure it’s draught not bottled
@@j0nnyism I enjoy both cask and bottle, but more often bottle. This is because the pub in my village, which is also where I work, only does one cask beer and it's a blonde ale (the only dark beer we sell at all is Guinness and while there's nothing bad about that, it's not what I want to drink most of the time). I have to travel elsewhere to get cask porters.
I used to live in a town where >10 pubs were known for having great cask beers (although probably thirty to fifty had traditional hand-pulled beers, most weren't specifically known as a place to get a good pint) and in autumn and winter, at least a few would have a porter on offer.
Ahoy is a channel that has done profiles on drinks much similar to this. Only with a frame that shows the brand instead of the film reel of a bar or pub
We missed out, born too late... Bolloxs
CAMRA in the UK has always been about keeping these old styles alive and as true to how it was as possible and very anti-'craft' (for better or worse). However never seen that way of pouring a pint with two barrels before, but that's arguably part of the trend away from large heads on beer that has occurred since the 90's, but could see coming back in as the craft beer scene has gotten into nitrogen.
I'm a bit surprised as porter never really fell out of popularity here in Sweden. Carnegie Porter has been brewed in Sweden since 1836 and still is. It's Sweden's oldest still living trademark. Actually, David Carnegie took over an already vibrant business of porter and sugar manufacturing in Gothenburg, that had been making porter since 1817 when import restrictions on imported porter was put in place.
But surely not served this way with two distinct casks of different varieties? I don’t know of any Scandinavian beer tradition that involves fresh cask beer with a really short sell-by date like the Irish and English beers.
Stout was the best seller in Ireland until 1999
Stout is just a style of porter and has always remained popular in Ireland. This report is just referring to the sale of draught porter. The names were used interchangeably in Ireland because there wasn’t really a clear difference between the styles. Any “rules” invented since by beer snobs did not exist then. In 1960, Guinness started using a mixture of CO2 and nitrogen gas (Guinness gas) for Guinness Draught. The older method was the process shown in this video. That in itself was only in existence for about 50 years at that point. Prior to that point, Guinness was sold in casks that were then bottled on site and conditioned before being sold in pubs.
Today you can buy bottle of Guinness Extra Stout which is basically he equivalent of a porter as served a century ago.
@@randomscandinavian6094 This two part pour was a strange phenomenon. Guinness in Ireland had traditionally been served bottles. Pubs bottled their own beer from casks and conditioned it before selling. After the Great War, Irish soldiers and workers had got to like cask ales. Guinness experimented with the process but found it produced an overly carbonated beer. So they use a mixture of conditioned beer mixed with flat beer. That is where the two part pour came from.
When imported lagers started to use canister CO2 gas, Guinness experimented and again found it overly carbonated. They developed a mixture of nitrogen and CO2 (known as Guinness gas) which resulted in the extremely creamy Guinness Draught we have today. And the associated two part pour which no longer serves a purpose.
@@Dreyno that’s very interesting. Thank you for the information! By chance I’m off to Ireland this weekend so I’ll look for that Guinness Extra Stout.
Porter is a great beer, especially in winter
Little did they know that porter and dark beer would have a resurgence 30-40 years later.
What a gem of a clip. Eloquent storytelling of the sort we just don’t see anymore. Journalism at its best.
Yeah. He's a regular Harvey Kirk.
For the home brewer, porter never went away! I turned out a few batches of porter, and pretty good it was too. Basically a well-malted beer, with less hops than stout, and less of the roasted barley, just enough to give it the dark colour and a hint of smoke but not pitch black like stout. It's actually a refreshing drink, on a hot day (and pretty good on cold days, too 🙂)
Porter is one of those styles I never get quite right when brewing myself they tend to end up too sweet for my taste so they always end up in the beef stew instead.
Thanks Andrew - Brit ex-pat (S/E Asia) and taught my wife to brew wine from the local fruit harvests when it is cheap. I used to brew beer a long time ago, found it much more interesting than wine - which was why I was so glad to read your descriptive.
I did do some small batches of stouts that were fairly mild (chocolate malt was a hoot - you should try it if you can get the ingredients!) so I'm connecting that with a heavily malted beer like Newcastle Brown?
Love to get back into beer brewing when I get some time (it's technically illegal, but in the same way it was in the UK before '63; it's really not policed - in fact you have micro brewery pubs [I think this is the future!] openly patronised by police) but getting hold of the stuff (pressure barrels, malts/extracts, yeasts) is a bit of an issue here at anything close to a sensible price
@@juggeist Beef stew is an admirable zenith for any ale! Curious though - when you say too sweet are you talking about sugar or overall flavour balance?
@@jamesportrais3946 The overall flavour balance tend to end up a bit too sweet for me when brewing porter.
@@juggeist without knowing your process, I would say try adding a touch of hops later in the boil, around 10 minutes before flame out. Fuggle or EKG will do well. Adds just a little herbal/floral character that rounds out the beer. Happy brewing 🍻
Im sitting here, watching a 50 year old piece on the last Porters in Ireland, and im thinking, "man that looks good"... and, i don't drink anymore... Really interesting piece.
Excellent reporting. I worked at a brewery in the USA we used to make a porter that was based on general George Washington recipe about 200 years old. It was excellent and very easy to drink. Served by hand cask
Porter - a lovely drink. A lot of the smaller breweries offer it these days. Very nice.
That was a masterpiece of journalism, really.
Not to mention the beer, of course.
This was broadcasted before I was even born and I am not even British nor Irish.
But my god, I could feel the taste of that pint on my tongue.
I only ever tried porter in a bottle and it was special, top quality.
It's the one brewed in Riga, Latvia, so if you're ever there, look for one. It's worth it.
Will do, thanks for sharing! :)
His histories a bit off and I don't think he's actually done much research but it was a great poetic piece.
Baltika?
That's a good one.
@@naughtiusmaximus1811No, it's different. Baltika is the Russian one. And I am not sure they ever had a porter.
Here in the East Midlands we have had a revival of porter with Titanic Brewery's Plum Porter.
We also have an excellent oatmeal stout, Dark Drake from Dancing Duck Brewery in Derby its self.
I’m a Guinness man today but still rate the Murphy’s as even better. I would love to know what the porter tasted like. That’s the great thing with some of these beers that go back so many decades, they give you a historical taste of what the working classes used to thrive on. Very interesting
Surely you must have tried Guinness West Indies Porter?
Have you tried Beamish ? Come down to Cork and you’ll get it at its best !
Beamish is lovely.👍🍺
Ah that took me back. I remember one could order a pint of "double" or a pint of "single" which was the Porter from the wooden barrels behind the bar. The pubs had sawdust on the floor and where packed and the craic was mighty!!
Pint of single if you had a few bob a pint of double I can just taste it now lovely and not forgetting a Parkdrive. Pubs today are rubbish.
@@alexlamont4470 I remember a pint of Guinness was two shillings and six pennies and a bottle of Red Heart Guinness was one shilling and nine pennies. Men were standing three deep at the bar and it took ages to get served!
The barrels were made of steel.
Was poetic journalism just what was done back in the 70’s or is it because of the history that Ireland has for storytelling, that makes this clip so wonderful. Can we really imagine a television presenter now, speaking with such lyricism? Not a chance.
YES
When things go wrong and will not come right,
Though you do the best you can,
When life looks black as the hour of night -
A pint of plain is your only man.
When money’s tight and hard to get
And your horse has also ran,
When all you have is a heap of debt -
A pint of plain is your only man.
When health is bad and your heart feels strange,
And your face is pale and wan,
When doctors say you need a change,
A pint of plain is your only man.
When food is scarce and your larder bare
And no rashers grease your pan,
When hunger grows as your meals are rare -
A pint of plain is your only man.
In time of trouble and lousey strife,
You have still got a darlint plan
You still can turn to a brighter life -
A pint of plain is your only man.
The Workman’s Friend”, by Flann O’Brien
I've never drank in my life, but I'd kill for a pint of that stuff right now.
London porter with a hint of chocolate sold at the Co-op supermarket... Beautiful, go buy some.
The power of advertising eh?
Try something new.
My advice. Enjoy drinking, not drunkenness. A lovely cold beer on a hot night is an absolute pleasure. A red wine with a hearty supper really adds something. Sipping whisky whilst listening to music and reading a book - oh it feels so right! Doing all three and then chucking up is no fun at all.
@@Rapscallion2009 it starts with a cold beer, and turns into six after a few years with some people. if one doesn't drink, i'd advise them not to bother starting, you never know how your body (and mind) will take it in advance.
@@Rapscallion2009stay off the top shelf. It’s for boozers, losers and jacuzzi users
Poetic, powerful and mesmeric. Fabulous.
I don’t drink. However, I love excellence - and this reporting is simply sublime
Sitting in the pub drinking a dark pint whilst watching a video about dark beer in the pub,noice.
wow. thats poetry. amazing stuff. I love this stuff from the 60s and 70s
Glad to be able to have a great porter these days, and it did not go extinct as this video seems to be foreboding at the time. Samuel Smith’s Tadcaster and Founder’s Porter are both excellent and widely available. People not into craft beer often make fun of us beer nerds, but who doesn’t like variety? I don’t want to be stuck with the only choice being blandly made lagers that are made to appeal to the masses. I like being able to have a pale ale, an IPA, a German dopplebock, stouts, Belgian beers brewed by monks, etc. Variety is the spice of life!
The only lager I've had in years was last summer, on a hot day, mixed one to make a shandy. But to drink straight? A lager? No thanks. I'd like a beer that tastes like something.
I was doing summer stock and drank Sierra Nevada Porter at the bar. I was the only one who ordered it and the bottles were always so cold. Great on a warm Berkshire night
A beautiful tribute. Porter will always have a place with me.
The best beer commercial ever made
Made me want to try it and I don't even drink beer.
I remember moonies in abbey st Dublin the old barman would have around 7 pints on the go around 5pm and guys would rush in while waiting for the bus and the barman would just be like a machine topping up the pints until after 6 when the rush died down, he pulled some of the best tasting pints I tasted, we either called it porter or a pint of single x , great nostalgia
This was more enjoyable than I anticipated.
I'm loving the BBC archive.
Nice video, I like the only sound is a clock ticking away - no muzak, phones to a TV blaring away in the background. A man can be left in peace with just his pint and his thoughts.
For ticking clocks, you want "The Island."
czcams.com/video/s02FhwL3wFw/video.html (sorry, can't find the full version).
A great piece of writing that conjures, winkles out and tickles the historical, factual and taste buds of the listener.
Glorious video showcasing a historic broadcast here.
This is pure poetry.
Guinness was inspired by the London Porter process.
I'm appreciating just how many ways the person behind the camera managed to film a small dark glass with interesting shots.
Seems easy enough until you try doing something like that.
The camerawork etc. really is excellent here
Trust me the BBC was the cream of the crop in that time. Before all the woke warriors got in and ruined it with activist journalism.
What a wonderfully poetic piece of reporting.
Neato. "The clerical collar" indeed. I do so love me some porter after work. Foothills People's Porter ftw. NC represent.
Oh man, just MARRY that pint, ffs!
😂😂😂😂😂
Thought he was going to down it all in one go at first
The weddings always fantastic but tomorrow brings a painful divorce..
Would if could :(
They lived happily ever after
What a head on that pour! I got a shiver, then thirsty…
Best bit of journalism - ever 👏
Beautiful.
Interestingly enough Porter actually was originally brewed in London , first mentioned in the early 1700s .
It wasn’t actually brewed in Ireland until 1776 .
Protestant’s best porter was the original tag line for Guinness.
Everyone knows that mate.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story. The BBC have been reporting fake news for decades.
@@DaraM73 Or Beamish
Fell out of popularity in the 19th century in England but was the best seller in Ireland until 1999
Bottle porter can be found in supermarkets. It's great stuff to use in any beef in beer recipes.
You can't bottle true Porter. It has to be served from two different sources...
What an amazing presenter. A stirring, well-worded eulogy for a type of beer and I enjoyed every second of it. Ah, I wish modern TV was a third as classy and competent.
Yeah. He's a regular William Butler Yeats.
had a porter on the weekend. lovely
Wonderful clip. A bit of history and a presenter who was thoroughly enjoying his pint. You can get porter in 2022 though it’s more a craft/real ale thing.
If its a craft real ale it ain't Porter....
@@Team-fabulous I had a pint of porter today brewed by Double-Barrelled in Reading. You go and tell them they don’t know how to brew porter. It was very nice. Perhaps you should try it first.
@@andrewlong6438 maybe it's labelled as Porter but if it's an ale it's not...
@@Team-fabulous Porter is a type of ale.....
@@delmarodonnell3645 Porter is a style of beer that was developed in London, England in the early 18th century. It was well-hopped and dark in appearance owing to the use of brown malt. The name is believed to have originated from its popularity with working class people and porters.
A glass of rugporter, showing characteristic dark body
The popularity of porter was significant. It became the first beer style to be brewed around the world, and production had commenced in Ireland, North America, Sweden, and Russia by the end of the 18th century.
The history of stout and porter are intertwined. The name "stout", used for a dark beer, came about because strong porters were marketed as "stout porter", later being shortened to just stout. Guinness Extra Stout was originally called "Extra Superior Porter" and was not given the name "Extra Stout" until 1840. Today, the terms stout and porter are used by different breweries almost interchangeably to describe dark beers, and have more in common than in distinction.
What a fabulous tribute, I drink this stuff, never heard of it referred to as ‘plain’!
There's an old Dublin saying. "A pint of plain is your only man".
Checks out the video on here, Dubliners Pint of Plain"
I never drunk it , thought it was Guinness at 1st
@@CarlowMod It's a poem by Myles na Gopaleen/Flann O'Brien, I think. (Though maybe he took it from the old saying.)
Glad we have craft beer keeping various styles alive today. It really is easy to take it all for granted.
oh my god I've been searching for this full segment for so long!
The alliteration in this video is downright musical
It's relaxing. The pace and quietness of the video is very nice compared to the noise of tv today.
Here in Canada there have been some very good attempts at rebuilding a modern, more "port"able style of port. A couple of them were actually very drinkable. Mill St. Organic Vanilla Porter is one of the more recent examples. Unfortunately, now discontinued. As are the other brands that I grew to enjoy. The trend seems to be going to the IPAs and fruity-tooty beers.
Well now I want one, and you're saying I can't get it anywhere!!? What do you mean this is from 1973!?? I need it!
Never knew it fell out of popularity, and considering how much I like drinking it I'm glad it never disappeared altogether.
It was the casked version of Guinness that met the end of the line in 1973
I would love to be able to get this little beauty. I was drinking Mild in pubs at 17 and loved every drop.
We also brewed mild or sweet ale
Porter still lives very much so and very well I can say in the United States. Hundreds of craft beer makers have brought back the bespoke brewing production of the olden days. Cheers! 🍺
True. Here in Pennsylvania, I have no difficulty finding porters.
porter didn't originate in ireland as far as i'm aware, i thought it originated in london where it was originally called london porter. porter is still drunk in lots of pubs, including by me so it has by no means died out.
I think the pub and beer scene in the UK, and no doubt in Ireland too, was very different then. This was around the time when CAMRA came onto the scene.
London porter with a hint of chocolate sold in bottles at the Co-op supermarket.. A very decent drink especially through the winter months. 10/10 I bloody want one now ☺️
Porter has been revived in England now, but its popularity was in decline in London in the late 19th century and its regular brewing was killed off by grain rationing in WWI. That rationing didn’t apply in Ireland, so porter remained popular among Irish workers.
That was beautifully shot and made.
Those pints look amazing
You'll be happy to know that Porter's still sold in Denmark, and several brands of it, too. The Carlsberg, the the Limfjords, and the sublime Wibroe. All of them sold bottled only, though, ne'ertheless, it's still possible to build ships on'em. They shouldn't be enjoyed cold but they'll still warm you.
Liquid lunch...brings a tear to the eye. And you're trying to tell me we've been making progress? Bollocks.
I gotta say im a lager and pilsner guy, but he completely sold me on draft port. And now I want one.
I spent time on the West Coast of Ireland in the 1980s and this was how the Guiness was poured. The barman would have a dozen half full glasses waiting for a customer and only when it was ordered would he slowly fill the glass to the top. It took at least 15 minutes to get a properly pulled glass of guiness.
Well it certainly came back with a vengeance. We have the American craft brewing industry to thank for that in large part. They revived the style beautifully.
Not sure if it's the same style or taste as a pint of 'plain' but Guinness West Indies Porter is one of my favourites but even that is becoming harder to get hold of. If you can find it and haven't tried it give it a go!
Imperial Russian Stout - at around 15%. No wonder the Tsar never saw the Revolution coming!
west indies is fabulous. was rather abundant in russia during covid, i aquired quite a taste for it.
West Indies Porter is still in most Tesco and Bargain Booze stores. Guinness did a Dublin Porter for a while too, but it's been ages since I saw it.
The Dublin Porter was great, there was an Irish pub in Sheffield where I used to drink it on draught and it went down almost too easily for its own good! @@RW-nr6bh
Porter was started in London. 👍
Love a good porter, especially in the autumn.
The late, great Larry. RIP
I’m a homebrewer and brew porter every winter. It’s lovely stuff, and I have enough to last me four or five months, until March / April time next year. Its got so much more body and flavour than gassy lager, which I stopped drinking several years ago.
That ticking clock at the end with the slow zoom shot on the glass. A deathly touch.
Porter remains a popular drink in craft breweries around the world. Most of my friends don’t like dark brews, but it’s a good drop.
Fascinating, I wondered why in the 1968 film Charge Of The Light Brigade’ Lord Cardigan had his insane rant about porter beer in the Officers Mess.
I believe that the man himself had the bizarre rant in Crimea. It wasn’t dramatic licence!
London Porter began as the preferred drink of the porters at the London markets (Smithfield, Billingsgate, Covent Garden, etc,.). London market pubs had special licences to allow them to be open in the early hours to let market workers drink after their night shifts.
It later moved out to the regions, including Northern Ireland. The business about mixing flat beer with unsettled beer has got to be sharp practice and a way to shift dead beer.
I used to grab a cheeky pint at the Smithfield market pubs on the way home from a night shift at St Bart's hospital when I worked in London. Happy days.
Porter was invented in London in 1720s. I like the way in this video, the porter comes from casks under the bar. Unlike the chilled , gassed up dead , nitrokeg that they call Guinness now.
This was beautiful.
A poetic journey of nostalgia, was I just hypnotised! I want a drink.