Guinness Murphys Or Beamish

Straight Talker

So which of these stouts do you prefer?I find Beamish to taste very weird.It finishes very bitter.Out of the two stouts brewed in Cork i find Murphys to be the best.But compared to Guinness i find Murphys to taste a bit weak and watery.I once did consider Guinness to be the devils buttermilk coming from Cork and all.:pac: But i think parochial pride should not come between enjoying a quality drink.Guinness is the only stout worth talking about really.The rest are mere pretenders to the throne.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Sure you're right, Guinness is the only Stout.

I don't favour any of that Cork ****e. They're still sour over Guinness breaking their gentleman's agreement and venturing into Cork when the company began growing at a rapid pace.

Jim Bob Scratcher

To hell with the lot of them. Black Bushmills for the win :pac:

Omackeral

Guinness , but only 30 pints or more of it.

Are Am Eye

I play it safe, an equal measure of each of the three into a pint glass. Shaken, not stirred.

Straight Talker

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Sure you're right, Guinness is the only Stout.

I don't favour any of that Cork ****e. They're still sour over Guinness breaking their gentleman's agreement and venturing into Cork when the company began growing at a rapid pace.

Leave the chip on the shoulder at the door bud.;) Dublin might do better stout but that's the only thing it does better than Cork.;)

Edit:Oh right your from Tipp.Still sour after last Sunday and Cork beating you earlier in the summer?

DEFTLEFTHAND

Straight Talker wrote: »

Leave the chip on the shoulder at the door bud.;) Dublin might do better stout but that's the only thing it does better than Cork.;)

Do better football too you redneck southerner.

:):)

Straight Talker

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Do better football too you redneck southerner.

:):)

Go back to sleep for another few hours Deftlefthand.It's a bit early in the morning to be hitting the Clonmel chardonnay.;)

Erik Shin

Lean Folláin ftw!

theteal

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Do better football too you redneck southerner.

:):)

I assume you're talking about gaa as the league table says quite different on the soccer front :pac:

Anyway, to the question at hand, I don't drink enough stout to be able to say. They're all "grand" in my experience. I've had some questionable pints of all of them.

I did have a pint of Murphys Red in Paris the other week, it was absolutely heavenly. I would have had a few more were they not €7 each.

kenmc

What about O'Haras or Dungarvans? Of the 3 you listed beamish has most flavour, but O'Haras beats that

Fighting Tao

Porterhouse Plain for me. Far more flavour than the 3 you listed.

kenmc

Plain is lovely also

somesoldiers

I usually drink Guinness, was in Cork last year and decided to drink Murphy. I didn't notice any difference, maybe I don't drink enough

Mint Sauce

Up here in the NW, have only ever encountered one or two pubs selling Beamish, and none selling Murphys. Tried the Beamish one night and actually enjoyed it, was a lighter taste to found it a lighter taste to Guinness, handy if you didn't want heavy night of it.

Went to Cork for a weekend, and straight away seen the Beamish, and naturally ordered one, next round seen the Murphys a little further down the counter and was hooked for the weekend.

As long as you dont put black current in any of them though, would be happy enough with any of the three.

Poor Uncle Tom

Straight Talker wrote: »

Go back to sleep for another few hours Deftlefthand.It's a bit early in the morning to be hitting the Clonmel chardonnay.;)

Busking festival on there this weekend, more than a few Black Rock stouts will be sucked down there today....

Poor Uncle Tom

Mint Sauce wrote: »

Up here in the NW, have only ever encountered one or two pubs selling Beamish, and none selling Murphys. Tried the Beamish one night and actually enjoyed it, was a lighter taste to found it a lighter taste to Guinness, handy if you didn't want heavy night of it.

Went to Cork for a weekend, and straight away seen the Beamish, and naturally ordered one, next round seen the Murphys a little further down the counter and was hooked for the weekend.

As long as you dont put black current in any of them though, would be happy enough with any of the three.

stout and mint sauce, now there's a combo....:D

Rumpy Pumpy

Heineken bought Beamish and set about creating a flawless copy of Guinness, a drink which has been made ever blander itself so it appeals to lager drinkers.

Stick the two of them in unmarked pint glasses and not even self-proclaimed Guinness experts can tell the difference.

All marketing.

jamesbere

Probably Murphys, never liked Guinness and beamish gave me some awful s**ts

Fanny Wank

Guinness is so bland it's ridiculous. It's popularity amazes me (though it's blandness is probably it selling point to the masses)

Not a huge Beamish fan but at least there's taste to it. Can't remember the last time I'd Murphy's.

Leann Follain my favourite stout but I've not tried all that many "fancy" ones

Pherekydes

The poll is incomplete. Should have a "I'd rather drink hemlock" option.

xper

Beamish has a nice smokey hint in its flavour that trumps the slightly sour finish that I usually get in Guinness. It also doesn't vary as much in quality so I tend to opt for the Beamish if I have a choice unless I know the Guinness is very, very good in the whatever bar I am in.

Didn't think much of Murphys the few times I've tried it . Mind you, its been years since I have so should probably give it a lash again for curiosity's sake as your taste changes over the years (I couldn't stand stout until I was in my thirties).

None of the craft stouts I have tried have impressed me - they seem to try too hard flavour wise. If I am in the mood for something like that, I'll the whole hog and order an IPA or similar.

And the above only applies to the first, maybe second, pint of the evening. After that I could be drinking slops and not notice

Wanderer78

Both muck, moving on.....

Omackeral

Wanderer78 wrote: »

Both muck, moving on.....

Well there's three options so....

RasTa

Treat yourself to this at some point. €6.20 for a 330ml

Noveight

If I'd the choice of the three I'd take Murphy's. Taaffe's in Galway and Bobby Byrne's in Limerick serve nice ones! Most pubs I frequent only serve Guinness though, so I usually have to go with that.

I've been meaning to try stouts outside of the "Big 3" if you want to call them that. Must get around to it some time.

pickarooney

Beamish, although it's been years since I had one. I'll be in Ireland next week. Any recommendations for new stouts?

andekwarhola

xper wrote: »

None of the craft stouts I have tried have impressed me - they seem to try too hard flavour wise.

Last thing you need food or drink to do is 'try too hard, flavour wise' alright.

Burial.

The drink snobs out in force like clockwork...might as well stamp "I am a c*nt" on your forehead. The man clearly gave a choice of three.

As a Cork man, I still have to pick Guinness. But give me a 473ml measure of Macgillicuddy Ruddy McLancashire O' Regan Dark Finest III 2.0 in hand carved glassware any day over that rubbish :rolleyes:

Zebra3

Burial. wrote: »

The drink snobs out in force like clockwork...might as well stamp "I am a c*nt" on your forehead. The man clearly gave a choice of three.

As a Cork man, I still have to pick Guinness. But give me a 473ml measure of Macgillicuddy Ruddy McLancashire O' Regan Dark Finest III 2.0 in hand carved glassware any day over that rubbish :rolleyes:

It's a choice of three different variations of urine, Mr Hobson.

Roll on the winter for Dungarvan's coffee and oatmeal stout.

jackofalltrades

My vote's for The White Hag oatmeal chocolate stout, stuff's amazing.

But in it's absence I voted for Murphys.