Phenice-Bruerie '98
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Jump to navigationJump to search- Phoenix Brewery: The third largest brewery in Dublin at the end of the 19th century, it went out of business in 1905, bought out by Guinness, on its way to a Dublin monopoly in beer. The principal drink was Phoenix Porter.
- Brouwerij: (Dutch) brewery
- 1898 the joke is in giving porter a vintage, as if it were a Bordeaux. 1898 was in fact an exceptional vintage year for claret and champagne.
- 1798 ‘The Memory of the Dead’ (song) 'Who fears to speak of Ninety-Eight?' (i.e. of the Irish rebellion of 1798)
