"Svend" (svend)
05/03/2019 at 06:20 • Filed to: None
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"Svend" (svend)
05/03/2019 at 06:20 • Filed to: None | 3
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Okay, maybe not so new. They were down a side street for some time, where I tend not to go and so hadn’t been down for a few years.
Well they’ve got a new store on the main road (just down the road from where U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s parents lived on Warwick Road).
Looking at their website I noticed they had Teeling Single Grain for a good price (the Single Malt they had for a bit higher than others, but thankfully I prefer the Single Grain).
On the ground floor (first floor to Americans) behind the front door to the right.
The left hand wall on the ground floor.
Good range of international whiskeys/ies. Apparently not too many Irish as there is ‘a down turn in Irish whiskey sales’. (?)
Looking through the floor to an old original black lead range.
Better look. That’s what I love about these old buildings, the undercrofts, some going all the way along under the streets above.
More moody atmosphere down here.
Selection of gins, brandys, etc...
I had originally intended to just go for a bottle of Teeling Single Grain, however I talked myself into a bottle of Wri ters Tears.
and a glass to toast the store.
random001
> Svend
05/03/2019 at 06:39 |
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Ok, so why wouldn’t you call the floor that is literally in the ground the ground floor? Asking for a friend...
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Svend
> random001
05/03/2019 at 06:49 |
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In British English, the ground floor in the one at ground level, in the U.S. they call it the first floor.
Below the ground level tends to be called ‘below ground’.
Azrek
> Svend
05/03/2019 at 07:07 |
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Good call on the Teeling Single Grain. I can’t get enough of that stuff. It is amazing.
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random001
> Svend
05/03/2019 at 07:09 |
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We actually call it the ground floor, as well as the first floor.
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Svend
> random001
05/03/2019 at 07:12 |
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Why both. Surely that’s confusing.
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Svend
> Azrek
05/03/2019 at 07:14 |
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It really is. I’ m enjoying a large Writers Tears.
I may have to have a T eeling afterwards, just because.
vondon302
> Svend
05/03/2019 at 07:37 |
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Cool shop.
facw
> Svend
05/03/2019 at 07:58 |
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It’s not at all confusing when you expect them to be the same thing. But yeah, normally if you are in an elevator building, the 1st floor is labeled ‘G’ in the elevator.
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Svend
> vondon302
05/03/2019 at 08:05 |
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That and the properties either side of it were all once a pharmacy, the lead glass on the top of the windows was hidden behind a facade, the metal bars behind the glass were part of the old security behind the windows which now look ornate .
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vondon302
> Svend
05/03/2019 at 08:08 |
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Neat. Any idea how old?
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Svend
> facw
05/03/2019 at 08:09 |
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I suppose for you’s who call it both.
For us, the ground floor is topped by the first floor.
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random001
> Svend
05/03/2019 at 08:29 |
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Nah, it’s fine.
You people must index like computer nerds, from 0. I’ve never really understood that. why is it row 0? 0 does not exist. It’s a discontinuity. So your ground floor is a discontinuity...
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Svend
> vondon302
05/03/2019 at 08:41 |
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That area of Warwick Road was built around 1830.
The building is number 48, some properties either side were built around 1830-ish.
Cavendish House, aka Woodrow’s house, number 83, was built in 1831.
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Svend
> random001
05/03/2019 at 09:06 |
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No. The ground floor, is ground zero if you will . Below it is minus 1, etc..., above it is plus 1, etc...
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vondon302
> Svend
05/03/2019 at 09:15 |
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Almost as old as my country.
;)
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Azrek
> Svend
05/03/2019 at 09:40 |
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I’ve been to the Teeling distillery in Dublin twice. I had a 12 year and a 15 year. Some of the best Irish whiskey I’ve ever had.
My mom even likes the Single Grain...and she doesn’t drink much!
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Svend
> vondon302
05/03/2019 at 09:41 |
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Well while these buildings are quite new. Carlisle, originally Lugavalium under the Romans, later C aer Luel, now C arlisle.
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Svend
> Azrek
05/03/2019 at 09:44 |
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I need to go on my Guinness pilgrimage, which isn’t far from the Teeling distillery in Dublin.
My local airport will soon be starting direct flights to Shannon airport, with links to the U.S. but from my doorstep to Dublin is the great start.
I’m now enjoying the Teeling.
Milky
> Svend
05/03/2019 at 09:49 |
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Thats cool. I have a hard time finding places that stock some thing different than the 50 bottles everyone stocks. Enjoy it!
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vondon302
> Svend
05/03/2019 at 10:08 |
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Thats what I love about visiting Europe. You all got doors and roofs that are older than anything we got.
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Svend
> Milky
05/03/2019 at 10:19 |
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Ye’, probably due to the proximity to the Scottish border here but trying to find something Irish other than Tullamore Dew, Jameson and Bush mills blended of Black Bush was almost impossible,
Pubs typically stock Scotch and maybe the odd bottle of Jameson.
Boring.
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Svend
> vondon302
05/03/2019 at 10:44 |
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Ye’, my street isn’t all that old. Plans went in for it in 1871 for Trafalgar Street and neighbouring Nelson Street, being built and completed in 1879 (houses were built as and when needed to house factory employees and families).
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Milky
> Svend
05/03/2019 at 10:53 |
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I get that feel.
Also I 110% have been looking for Writer’s Tears and so far came up empty handed, so consider me jealous. Read the link below, then actually saw it at a bar the next day. Had a glass and it was lovely, but I cant find a damn bottle around here. Enjoy a glass of it this weekend and think of me : ’(
https://thetakeout.com/4-best-irish-whiskey-recommendations-fancy-shopgirl-1833307591