Pint of Plain (Hardcover)

Pint of Plain (Hardcover)

Author: Bill Barich
Category: Beverages
ISBN: 9780802717016
Format : Hardcover
Publisher : Walker & Co

  

Bill Barich`s search for the perfect Irish pub morphs into a meditation on the commodification of Irish culture and the inexorable march of modernity. After moving to Dublin, Barich relished the chance to select his new drinking hole from a wide mix of quaint neighborhood pubs. But he quickly realized that the ubiquity of big-screen TVs and loud rock music would make his search much more challenging than he`d anticipated. He began a nationwide pub crawl, where he met scores of colorful lasses and lads and polished off countless pints of plain, all the while waxing nostalgic for a time before drunk-driving laws and phony franchise saloons made the traditional Irish bar an artifact of the past.