Mmmmm, beeeeeeeeeeeeeer
Someone's going to have a wicked Christmas party this year.
'Beer Hunter' lifts 40,000 pints of Guinness
Guinness's St James's Gate brewery in Dublin has been hit by an audacious raid in which an evidently thirsty man dubbed "the Beer Hunter" made off with 40,000 pints of the famous stout. According to the Times, the perp simply drove into the brewery yard in his own HGV, hitched it to a "well-provisioned" trailer and drove out …
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Friday 30th November 2007 10:59 GMT Telic
Carbonated Conundrum
Perhaps the suds were stolen by misguided environmentalists.
A story in New Scientist magazine warns of dangerous greenhouse gas emissions by household beverage refrigerators, particularly from beer-loving Canadians...
http://environment.newscientist.com/article/dn12975-beer-fridges-present-a-gassy-problem.html
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Friday 30th November 2007 11:53 GMT Alex Rose
@Steven
Diageo are not including the cost of the kegs. It's 450 kegs (360 Guinness plus 90 Carlsberg) and a pub would pay around £100 per 11 gallon keg depending on who they were (with a big buying group or a small independent) and how much they bought.
Before anyone goes on about reckless profiteering they should bear in mind the other costs a pub or bar incurs that have to be paid out of the profits. If you don't like £2.90 for a pint why not drink at home? Restaurants too expensive? Eat at home. Clothes too expensive? Make your own.
Economics 101 anybody?
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Friday 30th November 2007 12:16 GMT Anonymous Coward
They're out to
drink some damn beer it might not be enough.Whoever thinks it's for the metal isn't considering the weight of a keg around 160 lbs each full you can steal empties a lot easier than you can full ones. Not only that but most kegs have been made from (mostly) steel since people started stealing them it makes them even heavier. I doubt this beer is going anywhere but where beer normally goes at perhaps a small discount.
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Friday 30th November 2007 12:16 GMT Stuart McGuinness
pedantry
The correct characterisation of Guinness is to described it as "pushed" by nitrogen (actually compressed air I think) and not C02 which is the means by which your lagers etc reach your glass.
Dissolved C02 produces carbonic acid which is the taste of fizz we Guinness drinkers choose to avoid by waiting patiently for the much smaller microbubbles of air, not C02 to settle into the perfect creamy head with its artistic shamrock lovingly inscribed by a raven haired beauty whose perfect figure ...etc
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Friday 30th November 2007 12:50 GMT Stratman
If you've got the front to pull it off....
Many years ago (10-12 or so) I was working at the Open Golf for a world-famous national broadcasting corporation. After it was all over and the huge derig was under way a large flatbed lorry with crane arrived and started lifting the temporary aluminium roadway segments from our compound. Each piece was worth about £900. After he had finished and left, a man with a large flatbed lorry with crane arrived and asked "Where's all my trackway"?
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Friday 30th November 2007 12:50 GMT Anonymous Coward
@ They're out to
I think you're missing the point - if they're out to steal the kegs, then yes it's true that emptier ones are lighter; however, when the trailer is hooked up to an HGV (as opposed to hauled away by hand) then the weight difference evidently doesn't matter much. In which case, the huge quantity of good beer and Carlsberg is merely a welcome bonus to celebrate a successful beer heist!
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Friday 30th November 2007 15:00 GMT Rob
@Dave Bullions
Carlsberg don't do brewery raids, but if they did........... the men would be clad in black commando gear and would take over the brewery which was being defended by stunning scantily clad female security guards who didn't put up much of a fight but explosions and drama would still ensue....
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Friday 30th November 2007 15:25 GMT Daniel
its a sing a long
40,000 pints of Guinness sitting on a wall, 40,000 pints of Guinness sitting on a wall,
And if one pint of Guinness should accidently fall
There will be 39,999 pints of Guinness sitting on a wall...
39,999 pints of Guinness sitting on a wall, 39,999 pints of Guinness sitting on a wall,
And if one pint of Guinness should accidently fall
There will be 39,998 pints of Guinness sitting on a wall...
...28 days later...
1 pint of Guinness sitting on a wall, 1 pint of Guinness sitting on a wall,
And if one pint of Guinness should accidently fall
There will be 90 pints of Carlsberg sitting on a wall...
..boom boom
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Friday 30th November 2007 16:43 GMT Tony
I read the article on the beeb site
A couple of comments from the beeb that made me smile:
"Police found the abandoned vehicle. It was empty"
"the biggest carry-out this Christmas"
I also note that the criminals waited until all the police were tied up dealing with the anti drink/driving campaign before pulling the heist. Clearly very public spirited as they are trying to remove temptation.
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Saturday 1st December 2007 15:43 GMT Vladimir Plouzhnikov
To set the record straight
There is Budweiser and Budweiser
One is a licenced American crap, tasting and smelling of puke.
The other is the original Czech recipe, which is one of the best pilsners in the world.
I don't know which one was stollen. The American imitation is what's called Bud. The Czech one is always Budweiser.
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Saturday 1st December 2007 21:47 GMT Chris
Similar tricks
Landlord of a pub near me lost his fruity when some guys (wearing Hi-Vis Jackets, steels and holding a clip-board with a form on it) came in with a hand truck and told the landlord that his fruit machine was up for replacement. They got him to sign to sign the form, wheeled his out, calmly loaded thier truck and f***ed off with out replacing it. One phone call later and he ascertained he'd just been shafted.
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Monday 3rd December 2007 09:20 GMT Mr Larrington
Budweiser?
Why?
Assuming it's the Leftpondian wee-wee, it's the only stuff I've ever drunk[1] which gets you from "sober" to "hung-over" without an intermediate phase of "pissed". Will no-one put a stop to this madness?
1 - small-town Leftpondia after Saturday night closing time, and someone else had bought the filthy muck
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Monday 3rd December 2007 13:38 GMT Bob Gateaux
@Anonymous Coward
"Its the duty which which makes it £2.90 a pint - government probably makes more money off a pint than than the brewery"
That's simply not true - although the breweries and most landlords would love you to believe it.
The duty in the UK in 2006 (sorry I don't have the 2007 figures to hand) on a 5% pint of beer was just 38p per pint (there's VAT too but that applies to most things).
The breweries and landlords use any minor budgetary increase to smack a load more on top to increase their margins. It has become standard practice in the UK to increase the price of a pint of beer by at least 5, and quite often 10 pence whenever the chancellor puts a penny on a pint. That's where the real rip-off is going on.
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Monday 3rd December 2007 18:23 GMT Anonymous Coward
Budweiser makes me ashamed to say I'm American.
More so than the war, our dyslectic ideologue of a president, or even Microsoft's crappy excuse for an OS, nothing makes me more ashamed of being American that what most American’s call beer. To make matters worse, we have three equally bad national brands: Bud, Miller, and Coors.
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Tuesday 4th December 2007 18:22 GMT tony trolle
bud or rats piss
Stuck in SoCal and British I would Like to let it be Known Bud is the secound best rats piss the best being Miller Genuine Draft. MGD is not too bad out of a can either. If I was back in Briton I would hardly drink larger and IMHA Murphys is better than Guinness. BTW What happened to hedgehog flavo(u)r crisps (chips) the best ones were made with Murphys.
The beer from Samuel Addams is good IF the damm stuff has not been cooked to death on transportation. Best if you can find a microbrewery.
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