If it is true that Canadians drink more than 2.3 billion litres of beer each year, I wonder how much of that is consumed on St. Patrick's Day?
Why do people insist on drinking green beer on St. Patrick's Day? It tastes terrible. None of the beer is anywhere near Irish standards.
Overall it was a pretty good St. Patrick's Day. Both here and in Ottawa, in particular.
It's a more relaxed mood on St. Patrick's Day when you know there are parties just waiting to be had, celebrations all over, leprechauns, and of course the drinking of green beer.
If people drink green beer on St. Patrick's Day, why wouldn't they drink red and/or green beer at Christmas time?
Beer and the color green-are two great things that don't go so well together.
The one thing I learned this St. Patrick's Day is that even though a pint with a thick green head can look really really good, green beer doesn't taste good.
A pint served to me in a small hot chocolate mug did nothing to help that.
None of them lol.
Some bar owners will actually recommend a Guiness stout or Harp's lager instead.
On St. Patrick's Day, nobody seems to bothered by the green food colouring, even though apparently it isn't good for you. St. Patrick's Day is known for lots of cool things, but putting food colouring into a glass of foamy, delicious brew is one thing that I'll never be able to get behind. Why would you take a gorgeous, naturally golden mug of delicious hops and put something so unnatural in it? Not only are food dyes gross, they are not good for you! They have been found to cause hyperactivity in children, who should not be drinking beer of course, but is linked to asthma and cancer in adults.
The Yorkton Regional High School got the day started off right. Hosting a senior boys basketball tournament and winning it.
The Regional was definitely in a party mood that day. The team had good reason to celebrate the biggest win of the season so far.
Too bad the school mascot isn't a leprechaun.
The Yorkton United U16 girls soccer team could have partied all the way to St. Patrick's Day. Following one of the strangest decisions in a soccer tournament in which they competed at the provincial indoor soccer tournament.
A coin flip determined that Yorkton would finish at the top of their pool. They went to the finals and won it. Time to celebrate. Only problem is their team colours probably aren't green.
It was a fine St. Patrick's Day for the Toronto Maple Leafs fans in Ottawa over the weekend.
For the second straight Leafs/Senators game, the Leafs left Sens' fans crying in their green beer.
As if green beer didn't taste bad enough already, the true Irish out there apparently would be insulted by what we do with a little green food colouring.
Green beer is a St. Patrick's day tradition in many homes, restaurants, and pubs. You don't need to be a chemist to mix this celebratory drink. All you need is beer and food colouring. Simply add food colouring to your favourite beer. If you are going to mix in some food colouring, tip for next time would be to dye a light coloured beer.
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