4.8 • 646 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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0:00.0 | Brian Wynne is a barman in Dublin, what we'd call a bartender here in the States, |
0:05.5 | and he's the kind of guy who needs no introduction, not because he's famous, but because... |
0:11.0 | As Michael Crichton said, I do sometimes suffer from a deplorable excessive personality. |
0:16.1 | No, he needs no introduction because he can introduce himself perfectly well. |
0:20.7 | I'm a friend of an outgoing chap. I become friends with people easily, you know. That's what makes |
0:24.7 | me fit the bar trait so well, is that I'm extremely likable. I'm incredibly handsome, intelligent, |
0:31.6 | witty, you know. I am the most humble man in Ireland. He's worked at a brew pub called the Porter House for 20 years. |
0:41.3 | It's not the stereotypical Irish pub you might be imagining with... |
0:45.3 | The roaring fire and the old man asleep with the red nose at the bar and the dog on the floor licking a bowl of beer. |
0:51.3 | It's in a well-known touristy district of Dublin called Temple Bar. |
0:55.9 | We've got one thing's been from five floors. |
0:58.3 | We can hold about 450 odd people, two bars. |
1:02.3 | Oh, so this place is huge. |
1:03.7 | It's a good shop. |
1:04.6 | It's all wood and regret, really, is what it is, you know? |
1:09.2 | It's the kind of place a tourist might wander into and ask for a pint of Guinness. |
1:13.6 | But for three decades, this Dublin bar didn't sell it. |
1:18.6 | We've been open since 96 and we put our first Guinness tap in about three weeks ago. |
1:23.6 | We make an equivalent porter. |
1:25.6 | Well, I say equivalent. I mean, it's vastly superior, of course, but I can't say that. |
1:29.3 | I'm sure your lawyers will have a go with you for allowing me to say that kind of thing. |
1:32.3 | Unfortunately, they found that tourists still wanted Ireland's most famous beer. |
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