Day Twenty-Eight - 8/10/2012 - Cork

     Had many hours of class today, and it started raining a bit hard. During lunch break, Meng stopped at the Dunnes Express on North Main to get a large umbrella. It is a huge, red and white umbrella (the colors of Cork), featuring the word Cork and the city coat of arms.
     Today, being Monday, meant it was time to once again take advantage of Bierhalle's half-off wings.  We finished up the night in the Franciscan Well, where I had Blarney Blonde, another microbrew available there. I also tried Rebel Red on cask, which had a much more distinct flavour, one I preferred to the tap version.
     While there, we bumped into Shaughn, one of the people I had met briefly from orientation. He is from Nevada, and came to see the lovey sic at the Franciscan Well that night. It turns out that he had met the Master Brewer of the pub, and being a home brewer himself, got invited to a private beer tasting on Friday. According to the staff at the pub, this was quite the honor.
     The band, called 1 Horse Pony, was a three-man one-girl blues band that literally sat down at a table with instruments and began to play. They were pretty good, and we stayed until they finished, the whole pub singing and clapping along for the last few songs.