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Reflections on a bottle of Smithwicks

jokerman

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Quite good, but good enough to justify freighting it over oceans as the planet burns? Probably not. One the hardest decisions in the green new deal will be drawing up a list of beers for which we can sacrifice Indian Ocean islands to their global shipment with a reasonably clear conscience.

11.2 fl oz it says on the bottle. That’s the EU for you -same as Stella and other Belgian offerings. They care. They’ve done studies. Two men, two bottles a night over ten years, one the usual 12 fl oz, the other 11.2, and the Commission’s wisdom buys you 3.2 to 4.3 extra months of quality life as defined by the WHO. Heineken’s holding out but even Boddies and Speckled Hen are giving us Yankee pints. I’m sure that’s about to change, of course.

The “w” is silent like in “whole” -so it has an English Midlands ring to....oh, the grandkids are here. Well, more anon.