I’m originally from Ontario and have been living in Dublin for the past year or so. Feeling a little homesick, I was searching for fellow Canucks in Dublin and came across this site.

Thanks for making me feel less homesick and for giving me a renewed affinity for my native & adopted lands!

-Rachel.

The ginger ale doesn’t taste the same in Ireland (even if it is Schweppes), but I love a good rye & ginger. I’m sure you could order a Canadian Club & ginger ale in a pub, but I have no idea what it would set me back or even where I could get one. I don’t think ginger ale is a common mixer, and I doubt many pubs stock CC (although I haven’t really made a dedicated search).

Interesting post. But that isn’t the way you purchase beer in British Columbia. You can buy Beer in a private liquor store (they’re usually more expensive than government stores, but the prices vary), or a private beer/wine store (again, more expensive than government stores but the prices vary) or at a pub that has “off sales” which is the same as the off-licence in Ireland (usually the most expensive option, since they’re often the choice of last resort), or the government owned liquor store (which are cheapest, but oddly don’t sell cold beer … though they’re still much more expensive than in Quebec, for instance). In each of these cases no one goes and retrieves beer for you, it’s clearly displayed on the shelves and you get it yourself. Though of course the Liquor Control Board of BC still controls the distribution, so beer and wine, let alone spirits, are prohibited from being sold outside of those establishments (and of course licensed restaurants, pubs and clubs).