guinness

A Texan walks into a pub in Ireland and shouts to the crowd of drinkers: “I hear you Irish are a bunch of hard drinkers. I’ll give $500 to anybody in here who can drink ten pints of Guinness back-to-back.” The room goes quiet and no one takes up the offer.

One man leaves. Thirty minutes later he comes back and taps the Texan on the shoulder. “Is your bet still good?” asks the Irishman.

The Texan says yes and asks the bartender to line up ten pints of Guinness. The Irishman sculls all ten with only the odd pause for breath.

The other pub patrons cheer as the Texan sits in amazement.

He gives the Irishman the $500 and says, “If ya don’t mind me askin’, where did you go for that 30 minutes you were gone?”.

The Irishman replies “I had to go to the pub down the street to see if I could do it first”.

The old advertising slogan ‘Guinness is Good for You’ may be true after all, according to researchers.

A pint of the black stuff a day may work as well as an aspirin to prevent heart clots that raise the risk of heart attacks.

Drinking lager does not yield the same benefits, experts from University of Wisconsin told a conference in the US.

Guinness were told to stop using the slogan decades ago — and the firm still makes no health claims for the drink.

The Wisconsin team tested the health-giving properties of stout against lager by giving it to dogs who had narrowed arteries similar to those in heart disease.

They found that those given the Guinness had reduced clotting activity in their blood, but not those given lager.

Good beer is the most important tradition at Shippies’ — but we’re anything but tradtional when it comes to serving top-quality beer in peak condition. We use the latest technology to deliver your favorite beer at exactly the right temperature from ice-cased fonts chilled by pressurised super-cooled water.

We pride ourselves on the quality of our Guinness; Carlton Draught is popular with locals and mainland visitors alike; and diet-conscious drinkers go for the low-carbohydrate Pure Blonde lager.

We have the full range of Tasmania’s renowned Cascade beers, brewed only a few kilometres from the pub at the historic Cascade Brewery, established in 1820 by John Degraves.

And we offer Carlton Black as a lighter alternative to Guinness.