10 Reasons why I love Guinness.

jerk · 25-09-2003 8:10am #1

1. It Gets me Drunk.
2. It Tastes great.
3. It makes women more attractive.
4. It helps me sleep.
5. It gets me drunk.
6. It makes my farts sound funny.
7. It keeps me regular.
8. It's Irish.
9. It doesn't give me severe hangovers.
10. It gets me drunk.

rymus · 25-09-2003 9:43am

10 reasons why I love Murphys

1. It all started in Cork
2. It's cheaper than the heinekens & budweisers of the world
3. It's the home of the "wicked Murphys farts"
4. It tastes like a little bit of heaven when it's pulled properly
5. It makes me "not just another lager drinking louts"
6. It's better than an alarm clock (never fail to wake up at 8:30am the morning after a pissup)
7. My local + Murphys = relaxing bliss
8. It doesn't taste like Guinness
9. It doesn't taste like Guinness
10. It doesn't taste like Guinness

jerk · 25-09-2003 9:47am

I'm going to blow up lady's well brewery just for that skank whore post

solice · 25-09-2003 9:57am

i have to say that i love murphys. i hate leaving the cork cos you can nver find it anywhere in the rest of the country. it tastes so much better than guinness. so much better

IgnatiusJRiley · 25-09-2003 9:59am

I'd be partial to the aul Murphy's meself... and I'm not from Cork.

jerk · 25-09-2003 10:00am

i drank murphys for a while and true it as nice as guinness i would say its sweeter, but I'm a dub so guinness = jobs.
Hup the guinness.

the Guru · 25-09-2003 11:53am

it turns my poo black

monument · 25-09-2003 12:32pm

8. It's Irish.

It is made in Ireland and has a history here, that’s about it, it is not Irish owned.

As well as that, in some places it can be very hard to get a good pint.

misswex · 25-09-2003 1:01pm

Actually, its not really made here anymore either!! St. James' Gate is just a showroom / tourist attraction now more so than a brewery - shame really

Shinji · 25-09-2003 1:08pm

Er, actually, it IS still made in St James' Gate. In fact, the basic Guinness "mix" which is exported all over the world is made in St James Gate - it's then mixed with water and alcohol locally to make the "locally brewed" stuff. This allows Guinness to say that every pint of Guinness they sell was brewed in Ireland, which is an important marketing point for them.

Personally, I prefer Guinness to Murphys, but Murphys travels better for some reason - if you can FIND it in England, it's generally in good nick, whereas the Guinness here is generally mank. I've mostly taken to drinking Caffreys or Kilkenny in the UK, since they're impossible to screw up, even for incompetent English barmen....

jerk · 25-09-2003 1:39pm

Originally posted by Shinji

Personally, I prefer Guinness to Murphys, but Murphys travels better for some reason - if you can FIND it in England, it's generally in good nick, whereas the Guinness here is generally mank.

Very good point.

rubadub · 25-09-2003 1:41pm

Originally posted by the Guru
it turns my poo black

never flush those masterpieces, let others admire your work.

murphys is crap in dublin cause nobody drinks it (just like basss)and the keg goes bad, it is lovely in cork. in cork buy murphys, in dublin buy guinness. i prefer murphys in cork to the guinness in dublin

IgnatiusJRiley · 25-09-2003 1:44pm

Originally posted by Shinji

I've mostly taken to drinking Caffreys or Kilkenny in the UK, since they're impossible to screw up, even for incompetent English barmen....

V true on the Kilkenny. Tasted half-decent when I was over there

p.pete · 25-09-2003 2:04pm

Do they sell Smithwicks in the UK or is Kilkenny its substitute?

The (2nd) last time I was over I found a pub in the afternoon with the Kilkenny sign outside, think their menu boards and parasols were all Kilkenny branded as well. Inside there was loads of Irish tourist crap. So anyway, it was fairly quiet and I went up to the bar and ordered a Kilkenny and they said they had taken it out! Something about "it had gotten too strong for the lads".

Please tell me that this kind of tale is a once off, I'm moving over there real soon....

Grom · 25-09-2003 2:25pm

smithwicks ownz alllllll

rymus · 25-09-2003 2:51pm

Originally posted by jerk
I'm going to blow up lady's well brewery just for that skank whore post

Just try it you cheese chewing guttersnipe

scojones · 25-09-2003 2:56pm

murphys has no taste. There's no bite to it. Guinness owns murphys

monument · 25-09-2003 6:09pm

Originally posted by Shinji
I've mostly taken to drinking Caffreys or Kilkenny in the UK, since they're impossible to screw up, even for incompetent English barmen....

I nearly forgot about drinking Caffreys when in the UK, I liked it, can you get it in Ireland?

rymus · 25-09-2003 7:50pm

Originally posted by sjones
murphys has no taste. There's no bite to it. Guinness owns murphys

I hear horse piss has quite a bite too

For the love of God man, grow some tastebuds!

Agent Smith · 25-09-2003 8:18pm

Originally posted by monument
I nearly forgot about drinking Caffreys when in the UK, I liked it, can you get it in Ireland?

as my father would say..... it's a orange drink (if you catch my drift)
4

Guinness is god......

you dont see them in the blood transfussion board giveing out free murphy's after you donate blood.
why?

the blood transfusion board dont like people drinking black piss.....

furthest guinness i've had was in romania.... it tasted so so so so good. never wanted one more! (cost $8's tho....(35000 X8 =280000 lei!) )

"the agent!"

p.pete · 26-09-2003 8:13am

Originally posted by agent smith
furthest guinness i've had was in romania.... it tasted so so so so good. never wanted one more! (cost $8's tho....(35000 X8 =280000 lei!) )
"the agent!"

My furthest was Budapest but after seeing the girl pour it I didn't dare put the dirty thing near my mouth.

First of all there was no two part pour. Secondly I think she just left the glass sitting on the tray while pouring, no pouring angle is baaad. Thirdly she decided that the last unwanted pint of Guinness which had been left there for god knows how long could be used as part of "my" Guinness - so as she was pouring from the tap she was also tipping that stale muck into my glass.

Suddenly I felt like drinking beer....

jerk · 26-09-2003 8:53am

it really pisses me off when you see irish barmen doing stuff like that.
How many times have you been served a pint with a massive big bishops collar on it...
Have these people no pride in the art that is the pint of guinness?

solice · 26-09-2003 9:08am

there is a pub in cork just outside UCC called Cissie Youngs. Great place. anyway last year we had a party there. a friend of mine was going up to get a guinness so i asked him to order me a murphys and i handed over the €3.30.
a few minutes later he came back with two pints. of course he forgot which was which because they were both in murphys glasses. so he gave me one and he took the other. we both drank at the same time. it was the foulest thing i have ever drunk. it was hideous. i got the guinness. he had the murphys.
he thought the murphys was foul.

so i guess it all depends on what you like. some like murphys and others are just missguided

Sleipnir · 26-09-2003 9:18am

Ah the auld Guinness Vs Murphy's war.
To be honest i like them both. I drink Guinness as I live in Dublin where it's not easy to find Murphy's anyway.
Both have their good and bad points but I wouldn't call either of them 'foul'

Guiness does have more bite to it, or complexity of flavour if you like.
But I think Murphy's is more consistant. Often have a bad pint of Guinness, even though I might have had a good one a few days before in the same pub.
I'll enjoy whichever you put in front of me basically, and would never discount a drink just because I'm from a particular county. Those that do are missing out.

"Actually, its not really made here anymore either!! St. James' Gate is just a showroom / tourist attraction now more so than a brewery - shame really"

I don't know where you got that information, Guinness is brewed in the brewery, the Storehouse is the tourist attraction.
Do they sneak the barrels in at night or something?

That's just like the
"Dont' drink Guinness cos they use the water from the Liffey in it"

which is plainly ridiculous. The water comes from a spring in Kildare afaik, can't remember the name of it though.

misswex · 26-09-2003 10:34am

Originally posted by Shinji
Er, actually, it IS still made in St James' Gate. In fact, the basic Guinness "mix" which is exported all over the world is made in St James Gate - it's then mixed with water and alcohol locally to make the "locally brewed" stuff. This allows Guinness to say that every pint of Guinness they sell was brewed in Ireland, which is an important marketing point for them.

Personally, I prefer Guinness to Murphys, but Murphys travels better for some reason - if you can FIND it in England, it's generally in good nick, whereas the Guinness here is generally mank. I've mostly taken to drinking Caffreys or Kilkenny in the UK, since they're impossible to screw up, even for incompetent English barmen....

Apologies so, I actually though the main brewery had been closed down and most of the brewing was being done in the Diageo plant in England!!

(Note to self - check info before you post!!)

Stephen · 26-09-2003 6:57pm

St. James's Gate is a Diageo Global Supply plant now anyway (Diageo own Guinness and all of its brands, like Smithwicks), as is St. Francis Abbey Brewery here in Kilkenny. They brew mostly budweiser here now, and a small amount of smithwicks. Its fairly well known that Diageo would love to sell both breweries and rebuild them on cheaper sites, as the land they're on is worth millions upon millions of euros. St. James's Gate is on about 65 acres of city centre land.

Rumour has it that they had intended to brew bud in Dublin but the water quality was too poor. I do know that they are still performing daily lab tests on water samples from the reservoir here in kilkenny that the water supply for use in the budweiser brew comes from.

monument · 26-09-2003 8:04pm

Originally posted by Stephen
Its fairly well known that Diageo would love to sell both breweries and rebuild them on cheaper sites, as the land they're on is worth millions upon millions of euros. St. James's Gate is on about 65 acres of city centre land.

They would find it hard to just sell St. James's Gate.

So I think a part of their plans is to sell bits off, like The Digital Hub's (http://www.thedigitalhub.com/) Digital Depot which now houses Havok and others. (It used to be Guinness' Print Depot)

Lump · 27-09-2003 10:48pm

HE HE, If you every need free beer, talk to stephen, he does security for Diageo, through federal security. Thats the christmas booze sorted

John

ferdi · 28-09-2003 11:22am

smithwicks all the way.

rymus · 28-09-2003 1:35pm

Originally posted by solice
so i guess it all depends on what you like. some like murphys and others are just missguided

G'wan ya boyo! Good to see at least a small handful of people have taste.

Dublin jackeens and their guinness eh? I can see the point though; I mean as far as Dublin is concerned, guinness is one of the least offensive and/or foul things to come out of it.

TomTom · 28-09-2003 1:48pm

I likes the guinness.
I makes me get into great conversations with complete strangers about the possiblity of the holy grail really existing.

DMT · 28-09-2003 5:04pm

If you buy Kilkenny in Germany, it's actually rebranded Smithwicks, because in German "wicks" (wichs) means "Wank", so Smithwicks effectively means "Wanker Smith"...

Stephen · 29-09-2003 5:25am

Originally posted by Lump
HE HE, If you every need free beer, talk to stephen, he does security for Diageo, through federal security. Thats the christmas booze sorted

John

Alas we don't get free beer. Diageo employees have a monthly free beer allowance though.

p.pete · 29-09-2003 7:56am

Originally posted by DMT
If you buy Kilkenny in Germany, it's actually rebranded Smithwicks, because in German "wicks" (wichs) means "Wank", so Smithwicks effectively means "Wanker Smith"...

Which is exactly what I think of Kilkenny:D, obviously as a Smithwicks drinker I was in a bit of bind when I was in Germany...

solice · 29-09-2003 8:50am

ladyswell all the way my friends

i love cork, just started back at college today and we were doing thermodynamics and the lecturer used the example of a pint of MURPHYS being left on a bar going warm to show an example of conduction and convection.

all though i do wonder as to why the pint of murphys was left on the bar and not drank? were there pints of guinness there aswell? were they drank?

rubadub · 29-09-2003 1:54pm

thats for the philosphy class. is the glass half full or half empty

joseph brand · 29-09-2003 4:13pm

Half full in case of Guinness.

Half S**te in case of Murphys.:D

Has nobody been to the Porter House near Temple Bar in Dublin??

Get urself an oul pint o 'Plain'(similar to Guinness), they also have another one(can't remember name), stout but about 5% alc.

They have their own brewery and a massive selection of beers!!

Mess rs Maguires also do their own stout. Its ok.

BlitzKrieg · 29-09-2003 4:51pm

HELP!!!

I'm studying in england right now and obviously their guinness is muck. But thats not my only problem. I drink cider (dont get nasty now) and they have strongbow which is piss compared to bulmers. But i've searched cambridge again and again to no avail. SO wha i need to kno is if any1 knos any irish pubs in cambridge or a webbie wit the location of 1.

I know bulmers goes under Magners outside ireland but i cant find it at all.

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

amp · 29-09-2003 4:59pm

For some reason I've been choosing Guinness myself lately. And normally I'm a lager swiller. I'll probably stay on it for the winter; can't stand it in the summer. I'm a non-fairweather drinker

joseph: Oyster Stout, I think. And it's lovely.

Shinji · 29-09-2003 11:35pm

they have strongbow which is piss compared to bulmers

Most British pubs will have a few local varieties of cider on tap - generally on one of the big manual pumps. It's worth trying your way through those I'd imagine, although I haven't touched cider since I was about 17 so I can't really say whether they're any good. They're certainly generally STRONG...

smoke · 01-10-2003 12:12pm

ummm, stout in general. *drools*

10 Reasons why I love Guinness.

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