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Beer boat left high and dry!


A booze Booze

sold cheap whiskey in a log-cabin bottle. [Am. Hist.: Espy, 152–153]

See : Drunkenness
 boat carrying dozens of barrels of beer was left high and dry yesterday after springing a leak.

The Beamish Black boat Pride of Cork became uncorked while on Loch Ness.

And the crew were left with mighty hangovers trying to save the beer from going under.

The 94ft sailing ship "Pride of Cork" was part of a UK tour promoting new Irish Stout stout, alcoholic beverage: see beer.  Beamish Black.

It was en-route from Glasgow to Edinburgh via the Caledonian Canal Caledonian Canal, waterway, c.60 mi (100 km) long, cutting across Highland, N Scotland, from Moray Firth to Loch Linnhe by way of the Great Glen. It was built in two phases (1803–22 and 1843–47; opened 1822) to save shallow-draft vessels the circuitous  when disaster struck in the heart of Loch Ness.

Director Brian Sharp Brian Sharp (born March 3, 1980) is a computer game programmer. He attended Dartmouth College and came close to graduating before taking a job at Ion Storm Austin to work on the Deus Ex and Thief computer games there.  said: "This was one of the first deliveries of Black Beamish in Scotland and I had visions of it sinking to the bottom of Loch Ness."
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Author:Britten, Nick
Publication:Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date:Sep 18, 1997
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