Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 05, 2012

I have always enjoyed the innovation and creativity you have brought into your strip, Jimmy. Many thanks!

That “mess” would be the improperly poured Guinness

There’s family, and then there’s family.

like Eric Idle used to say "American beer is like sex in a canoe, #^*!ing close to water. I prefer Jamesons anyhow.

Once you develop a taste for it, a Guiness is rather nice. I drank a lot of it in Ireland on vacationl

Uh….what woman?

where’s the young man who’s at least half responsible for the union of the two families? i prefer Bushmils or Killians me self don’t cha know!

Beer – it’s good for what ales you!

Genesee beer Rochester N.Y. 1870. They sent some here once than stopped when different folks got the rights. I loved the stuff.

Beck’s, my all time favorite is now being brewed in St. Louis, Missouri. Five hundred years brewed under Germany’s Purity Laws and now river water from the heartland. P #@$ing Yoo!!!

Happily ever after I tell you…. LOL

Had a beer in the UK called The Dog’s Bollicks. Tasted like it, too.

ML has bonded to Janis as a daughter would to her mother.

Alcohol… the number one cause of stupidity.

The Guinness that you get in the US is made in Canada. It is quite different from what you get in Ireland.

I completely missed the meaning of today’s strip. Would someone explain the Guiness thing? Thanks.

Newcastle, now there’s a beer!

dt4030, yeah, forget the beer, what is going on in the strip? What woman? Who’s singing? A little help? Come on guys, wipe the foam off your face, and help us out!I’ll wait……..with my frosty Heineken…

I love seeing the families get along so well.

The late Nobel laureate in economics Merton Miller used to tell a story about a guy who sent a sample of American ‘beer’ to a chemist for analysis, and received the report, “Your horse has diabetes”.

In fairness, it should be pointed out that much of the United States is significantly hotter and dryer than Great Britain, and many people – including Britons – find American beer, drunk on its own rather than with food, preferable to a pint of bitter in Texas in August. (On the other hand, Jamaicans like room temperature Dragon Stout. De gustibus…).

…i don’t even like the smell of beer. Any beer.

What is all the fuss about? Guiness versus all the other beers people stated versus old-fashioned pale “horse-p*ss” American beers?!? The reality is that all of the beers mentioned can be and ARE fine and wonderful in in the right situation. To me, Guiness is great, the microbrews are great, the American staples are great! Why fight when there is so much good in all of them? [hic]

Can’t we all just get along? Play nice and no disparaging other folks favorite things, now, chi’ren!

You don’t need to be Irish to pour a proper pint of the Old Original, but it helps. A friend’s husband is Irish from Ireland, and even though he doesn’t drink the stuff, when he’s worked as a bartender he could pour a better Guinness than his non-Irish coworkers. It’s in the blood.

I’m not Irish, but Guinness is my staple, and it’s always better in an Irish pub, poured by someone from Ireland. And I know it’s cheesy, but I also like it when they trace a shamrock in the head. :-)

Guinness Gives You Strength!

I saw an interesting documentary once on craft and microbreweries. One of the brewers being interviewed said (paraphrased): “It’s kind of fashionable to run down the huge companies like Anheuser-Busch, but secretly we all wish we had their consistency and quality control; you can count on one Budweiser to taste exactly like every other one no matter where you are, and we just can’t do that.”

His point was: his beer was great at the brewery… except when it wasn’t, and he occasionally had to discard batches that went “off”… but if he tried to ship it to someplace 500 miles away, it just wasn’t the same.

I don’t have a dog in this fight, because I’ve tried lots of beers: Conglomo-brand mass-produced, craft beers, microbrews, English stuff at an English pub in England … and I think they’re all vile (though the more it looks like pumpernickel, the less I seem to hate it). I can sort of tolerate Guinness, so I can easily imagine that anyone who likes the others would hate it because it has less of that essence of vileness that they love.

Red Oak’s my fave….then Yuengling

Why would anyone drink that toxic sludge?

Not toxic, it is surprisingly low calorie and low alcohol. However, they seem to have changed the formula so it is not as good as it used to be—and avoid the watery stuff in a can that claims to be “draft.”

I disagree, Dave53. With all of the new breweries in this country it is easier than ever, or at least since Prohibition, to “drink American”.

It is nice to see the families together. I drink Boulevard stout when they have it… if not, then anything with some flavor. I like the beers they pour at our favorite German restaurant, but I can never remember the names. A mas will do that to you. :-)

It seems we are about to get some of the back story of why Gus was raising his daughter on his own.

The one thing you must never do with Guinness is chill it. It makes it thin, watery, and tasteless.

But I admit I prefer Beamish.

Ying-Ling! That Chinese beer they brew in Pottsville,PA. Or is that Yuengling?

Like their Back and Tan and Lager.

Grolsch!