Bloody rosemary beetles, coming over here, eating all our rosemary.
Steve Dempsey
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![The Black Sheep Brewery is a small brewery in that area which is very well known and they produce Black Sheep Bitter and also a most unusual bottled beer which is called Riggwelter, which needs explaining. It's a dialect word. A riggwelter in the dialect of this particular area of the north of England is a sheep which has fallen on its back and can't get up again. [lLaughter] This happens with sheep. They trip, they roll on their backs and then they lie there waggling their feet, [laughter] and the shepherd has to come and turn them up again. Well, that is — in the dialect of the area a sheep like that is riggweltered; it's a riggwelter, and they call this bottled beer Riggwelter [laughter] because if you consume it in unwise quantities [laughter] it has exactly the same effect. [Laughter] Anyway, I tell you this not to encourage you but to, you know — if you did happen to go to that part of England to warn you against the possible consequences. [Laughter]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:btt7dlh52e5cgxaykijcoecz/bafkreifgkg4ttwceltnsamuc4jetrzake5ceqcpgdce4qx5xjiy6olikfi)
