Guinness tastes like swill: Discuss

biko

Just stick to your shandys and Buds then.
More Guinness for me.

Dunny

later12 wrote: »

It gets you drunk and it tastes like your parish jersey after a particularly vigorous training session.

Personally, I'm all for it.

Having said that, a pint is more than enough before I switch to a bottle of Coors.

/raises pinkie finger

GTFO

boobar

The Scientician wrote: »

I think I've maybe once had a pint of Guinness that I found palatable and enjoyable. Otherwise it's acrid swill. I just don't get how it's so popular. Did people lose their tastebuds in the war?

I had a few pints of it a few years ago, never again, woke up the next morning and it felt like I was trying to excrete a rubix cube.

Plus, a character in the local always refers to it as a "bucket a muck" whenever he orders this tasty beverage.

mikemac1

I'll have a Black n'tan there OP, good man

gurramok

If you get a bad pint of Guinness, report it. They have a quality team who check up on these things. Never get a pint in the nightclub, expect it to taste crap.

Beamish does seem to be nicer though and cheaper. Guinness is popular through viral marketing even though its inferior to other stouts. And why do people like stout? Smooth taste!

Immaculate Pasta

I'm very fond of the stuff although I'm very particular where I'd get it from. It has to be a what I deem as a proper pub. Bars and Student Pubs are a big no no.

But done right it's my favourite drink. If I were to have one drink of something, I'd have a Guinness. Although I'm very partial to a good pint of Murphy's as well.

Although I enjoy it I struggle to have a proper night on it. I can only have about 4-5 pints then I have to switch to something else. It does taste better in Ireland, Guinness in the UK's not bad, but I find it goes down a lot easier in Ireland, it's like nectar. I find that the Guinness in Ireland means no hangover. I can be stumbling around and slurring my words after 12 pints of Guinness, but I can wake up the next morning feeling fine. It's odd.

The best pint of Guinness I love is when you're out in the sticks in Connemara. You're in a pub, order your pint of Guinness, relax, you probably get it at least 5 minutes after you order it, there's no rush. The Guinness then has settled and it's heaven. :cool:

Flincher

Definitely an acquired taste. The first time I tried it, I was barely able to finish a pint, I thought it was disgusting. It takes a good 4-5 nights work before you start to get a taste for it. But it is gradual, so might be able to finish 2 the second night, 3 or 4 the third.

I'd rarely touch it in a hotel or a nightclub though. At weddings, always wait to see if the old fellas get a second round of pints in. Then you know its safe to order one.

Seaneh

buck65 wrote: »

Guinness was once a fantastic stout but the muppets in St James' Gate/ Diageo have felt the need to dilute it's taste in recent years making it more watered down and colder i.e you can't taste the stuff.
Murphy's is a far better stout as is Beamish. Porterhouse Wrasslers and their other Oyster stout one are the best in Ireland at the moment.

O'Hara's Leann Follain.

Game. Set and Match to the Carlow Brewing Company boys.


It's the best stout on this island, by a country mile.

Regardless of whether you like Guinness or not, you have to appreciate their quality service. You see those vans driving pretty much everywhere.

Seaneh

gbee wrote: »

Pouring the Guinness is the key, in fact, if one were to pour beer like one would pour a good pint of Guinness they'd have the best pint of any beer or lager that they ever had.
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How guinness is poured makes no bloody difference to the taste of the beer.

You're talking through your hoop.

As stated before, the two part pour today is a marketing gimmick, not a requirement.


Another point, the guinness you get in a pub is not the same recipe your grandfather drank, the current draught "nitro" recipe was first produced in 1963 and designed to be colder, blander and more palletable to people to like lagers and other fizzy pale ****e beers.

This is the original guinness recipe, it is a far superior beer, and you can get it by the bottle in a lot of bars, usually drank, funnily enough, by older men, who remember when their pint used to taste like the bottles do.

Guinness is an average beer, it's better than fizzy yellow piss water like Heinkien, Bud, Fischers, Urquell or Grolsch (well, it's better than any Lager, Lagers are ****e) or bland ales like Bass or Smithwicks.
But when compared to proper stouts, like Guinness Extra or, even better, Guinness Foreign Extra, or even better again, O'Hara's Leann Follain, Guinness is a poor alternative.

ejmaztec

You've got to hand it to the ad-men, turning a mediocre glass of treacly slop into the nectar of the gods. It's foul stuff.

Casillas

Really cold Guinness is quite nice, warm Guinness is puke inducing.

Feisar

The two part pour allows for the head to sit slightly proud of the top of the glass. This can't be done with one pour.

I generally drink bottled stout when at home and draught when in a pub, you rarely see the bottles of stout in pubs anymore.

Fuller's London Porter is in my mind the finest example of a stout today.

krudler

only ever had a mouthful of it, thought it was foul, whiskey ftw.

mattjack

Casillas wrote: »

Really cold Guinness is quite nice, warm Guinness is puke inducing.

Tiredness and a hangover made me see this as puke dancing

Casillas

mattjack wrote: »

Tiredness and a hangover made me see this as puke dancing

It does that too

antodeco

I've been finding a lot of Guinness lately that's either very 'wet' or quite metallic tasting. I look around the bar first before ordering a pint. See how many are pulled, and how many are sticking to the glasses. I actually think I prefer the cans of Guinness at the moment.

I do enjoy Paulaner. Fantastic beer, but you will have the worst hangover for about a week after a night of a few.

Tuborg is an internal cleanser. Think of the after affects of Guinness and Bulmers Pear. Horrid horrid hole for days, but a cheap colonic.

Joko

gbee wrote: »

Pouring the Guinness is the key

The 2 part pour is marketing bull****. The next time your drinking with friends, take a blind taste test of a single pour and a 2 parter. You will notice no difference.

antodeco

Ever have the bright yellow label bottles? The foreign extra? THAT is perfect Guinness.
The original recipe. I've drank that for a week, then had a pint of Guinness. Zero taste off the pint. Imagine drinking espresso all the time, then have a latte. Seriously, if you've never had one of those bottles, drink one. Straight from the bottle.

Mr.Biscuits

Joko wrote: »

The 2 part pour is marketing bull****. The next time your drinking with friends, take a blind taste test of a single pour and a 2 parter. You will notice no difference.

There used to be a massive head on Guinness in the old days, so a single pour was impossible.

A single pour today would mean less Guinness also, just not to the same degree.

John Doe1

It tastes like a pensioners underarm:(

KyussBishop

Ya don't like Guinness myself; need a razor blade to shave it off your palette after each mouthful.

stovelid

Seaneh wrote: »

well, it's better than any Lager, Lagers are ****e)

I'm mortified. I've been drinking lager for years and never realized it was shite.

paddyandy

O.P. Tastes like .....It was a great drink but refrigeration came along to help disguise the real taste much like sauce on tasteless food .Drinking is a social idea where getting drunk is the real reason ...to live out the advertising fantasy .It's a product now and it's trading on an old reputation it no longer deserves .Guinness do a special Brew for VIP functions and it's not the nonsense we get in pubs .It's a Game now .

Shryke

It's lovely stuff. Goes down well and never a bad hangover. The extra stout is nice too. I had 2 bottles of it yesterday.
Like any other alcoholic drink it takes a bit of getting used to. I'd take it over any other beer these days though. I'd take it over cider too. I'm going off wine a bit, it's too easy to drink too much. The same for whiskey.
I'm getting old in my thinking but Guinness is a nice steady drink that almost obliges you to take your time with it. It's relaxing, and at 3 euro a pint in Galway I really can't complain. I was in Dublin recently and paid something like 4.85. It was in a hotel but still way too expensive.

RichieC

There's worse drinks, there's no doubt it's a low grade stout, though.

44leto

Its actually quite nice, its like wine you have to acquire a taste, but when you do there isn't a beer quite like it.

I stopped drinking it because I am convinced it adds to the waste line, but I am told there are less calories in it then lager, but still the Gxxx seemed to bloat me.

If I am going for one or 2 pints i will treat myself to the black nectar.

JONJO THE MISER

Tis your only man.

Seaneh

antodeco wrote: »

Ever have the bright yellow label bottles? The foreign extra? THAT is perfect Guinness.
The original recipe. I've drank that for a week, then had a pint of Guinness. Zero taste off the pint. Imagine drinking espresso all the time, then have a latte. Seriously, if you've never had one of those bottles, drink one. Straight from the bottle.

It's not the original recipe, Guinnes Extra is, FES is just that, a beer brewed for export, it was originally shipped to the west indies, africa and asia, where it is still mostly drank.

Drinking it from the bottle means you lose a lot of flavour, pouring it into a glass oxygenates it and allows aromas to develop, a lot of taste also has to do with smell, if you cant smell it (which from a bottle, you can't) you're not getting the full taste.

44leto

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Tis your only man.

It tis isn't it. Once you get the taste the rest of the beer world is mere second place and swill.