Transcript: On March 17, Stout Is What It's All About

LIANE HANSEN
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
03-12-2006
On March 17, Stout Is What It's All About

Host: LIANE HANSEN
Time: 12:00-1:00 PM

LIANE HANSEN, host:

Friday is St. Patrick's Day, one of the busiest days of the year at the nation's drinking establishments. WEEKEND EDITION food essayist Bonny Wolf considers what's on tap.

BONNY WOLF reporting:

Think before you drink green beer. If you really want to be Irish for a day, your beer should be black. Nothing says Ireland like a pint of dry dark stout. St. Patrick himself is said to have traveled with his own personal brewer. Arthur Guinness made stouts synonymous with Ireland in 1759 when he signed an optimistic 9,000 year lease on a brewery ...

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