Andrew Shugg's Guinness Page

Welcome to my Guinness page. Hopefully there are some things in here that you will find useful, interesting, or at the very least, amusing.

This web page was last updated at 04:51 on July 25, 1997 (local time).

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About Me, and This Page

Yes, I am a major Guinness enthusiast. My name is Andrew Shugg, and I live in Perth, Western Australia. I used to be an Electrical & Electronic Engineering student at the University of Western Australia, but now I'm doing contract programming work. I've written this page in my "spare time" to express to the world my very deep feelings for Guinness, the Queen of All Ales. If you want to know more about me, you can go visit my personal homepage. If not, then let's talk about Guinness, which I can promise you is far more exciting!

Huh? What's Guinness?

You don't know? And you're alive? Sheesh. Well, you don't deserve to be. Hopefully this page will serve to educate you on this crucially important part of life.

Guinness (also known to my friends and I as Vitamin G) is a wonderful dark ale brewed in Ireland and exported for the pleasure of discerning drinkers the world over. It is sold by the pint at all good pubs (never by the half pint!) and also in draught cans or bottles at bottle shops. Here in Australia, expect to pay around $5 a pint; anyone care to tell me what prices are like around the rest of the world?

Other Guinness places on the Web

If this page isn't exciting enough for your tastes ... well, fortunately for you, there's lots of other places you can go to!

• visit the official web site of Guinness Brewing in Ireland
• you can go Pull Yourself a Pint in the UK
• a guy in Vienna has written a page about local pubs (which could be real handy if you happen to live in Vienna), and includes instructions on how to pour the perfect pint
• Joe Desbonnet of Ireland has written a guide to Guinness ...
• Alan Clinton of Ireland has written A Guide For The Un-Initated To Buying Guinness In An Irish Pub
• Alan Marshall of Sweden has the Guinness Beer FAQt and Folklore
• John Griffin has a very good historic Guinness home page
• Todd J. Cusolle of Canada maintains the The Unofficial Canadian Guinness Drinkers' Homepage
• Alessandro Bigatti of Italy has a page for Guinness lovers

Guinness-Related Things to See and Do

Other Guinness enthusiasts may now indulge in the following activities:

• Read a Guinness joke!
  
• Download the music from the Guinness ad (632KB, 8-bit, 11kHz WAV file - runs for approximately 1 minute)
  
• Download the Guinness bitmap wallpaper for Windows (48KB, DOS self-extracting archive)
  
• Look at the pictures in the wallpaper archive (I've converted them to .GIF files):
  Can of Guinness - Glasses of Guinness - Pint of Guinness
  
  
• Download the new Guinness screensaver from the Official Guinness Web Site!!
  
• Download the old Guinness screensaver for Windows (1.3MB, Windows self-extracting archive)
  
• Look at all of the pictures from the screensaver:
  Ballet pose, #1 - Ballet pose, #2 - Ballet pose, #3 - Ballet pose, #4 - Ballet pose, #5 - Ballet pose, #6 - Drinking face, #1 - Drinking face, #2 - Drinking hand, #1 - Drinking hand, #2 - Face #1 - Face #2 - Fit - Logo - NoHo Logo - Order #1 - Order #2 - Order #3 - Order #4 - Order #5 - Order #6 - Order #7 - Settled pint - Settle - Settle #2 - Setup picture #1 - Setup picture #2 - Pretty close! - Waiting, #1 - Waiting, #2 - Waiting, #3
  
  
• Send me some mail to pass on any comments or suggestions that you might have about this web page.

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Credits

The wallpaper is from the Official Guinness Site. I guess the screensaver is, too, but I picked it up from a local shareware vendor for $2. The music was recorded by a friend of mine - it was originally recorded in 16-bit stereo with a much higher sampling rate, but that .WAV file was just too damn big. :) This one still sounds pretty good, though, so grab it. :) The background for this page (the pint glasses down the side) I did myself, using PaintShop Pro.

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