Draught Guinness in cans.

chooseusername

Am I weird, or does anyone else wash and dry the glass after each can?

Packrat

Either dry as well or don't rinse at all.

For me, cans must be upright in the fridge for at least 24 hours as well.

elperello

If you are having more than one there is no need to wash and dry the glass after each one.

You can do it if you like but you need to wash it under warm water and leave to drain before polishing.

You need a good quality glass cloth that hasn't been used for any other purpose.

Hotblack Desiato

So much bolloxology about Guinness, how the head looks etc. which of course doesn't affect the taste at all.

I did a blind taste test once, was surprisingly hard to tell the difference between Smithwicks and Guinness, and Guinness was my main drink at the time!

Diageo have now cottoned on to the bolloxology and are charging a premium for 'nitrosurge' cans even though they're cheaper to make than widget cans. Plus they get to ride you for the price of the gadget, too.

Guinness from a can is very flat these days. I’ve moved over to Beamish. It keeps the head much better and tastes a small bit “stoutier”. Costs a few quid extra for 8 cans though.

chooseusername

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120071438#Comment_120071438

I’m not talking about nitrosurge, just the draught in the can. If you think how a pint looks doesn’t influence your enjoyment of it, then Smithwicks is probably right for you.

jaffa20

Yep, I rinse it out for another guinness but not for a beer.

chooseusername

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120071927#Comment_120071927

Yea, nothing worse than a dirty brown head on Guinness. Mind you after 6 or 8 I wouldn’t be bothered.

Yurt2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120071438#Comment_120071438

There's so much twattery and guff attached to Guinness. Explaining to a lifelong drinker that the two-part pour thing is a marketing wheeze and it will taste the same in one pour is like telling a child Santa isn't real.

It's not a vintage rare Bordeaux, it's mass-produced brown alcohol water pushed through some manky pipes with nitrogen. And there's nothing worse than when you're at a gig and someone swamping Guinness out of a plastic cup lets rip.

Some people will of course take grave offence to the above, but it shows the power of the Diageo marketing machine that a pretty lame product has become so intertwined with the national identity. Kudos to them I suppose, the lads in the big glass tower in London deserve a pay rise. If Americans took such umbrage at being told Budweiser is p*sswater, we'd write them off as a nation in rapture to a cult.

chooseusername

This is not about draught Guinness in the pub. It’s about cans.

I don’t prefer it from a clean dry glass because that’s what you get in a pub. Nor do I do a 2 pour like the pub. But I do like to let it settle.

Anyway, the two-pour was the way it was done long before Diageo or TV marketing, not the other way round.

Scotty #

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058278381/draught-guinness-in-cans

I usually rinse. Never dry.

I prefer nitrosurge. I thought it was a gimmick at first but after trying it again I do find them slightly better. Plus, and my main reason for using them, I love that they fill the glass. I hate the way the 500ml cans leave a gap in a pint glass. I wish Guinness had stuck with the pint cans they were doing last Xmas. I've looked for 500ml tulip glasses to no avail.

I do wish they'd get rid of the two part pour.

WesternZulu

I drink Guinness myself a lot of the time but would have a preference for a good craft IPA if I could get one instead when I'm out.

The way some drinkers talk about 'beer snobs' who drink craft beer is ironic considering all the shite that the same people spout on about Guinness; the two part pour, domage, bubbles in the head, sticking to the glass, splitting the harp, how clean the lines are, good Guinness pubs, etc.

I don't think any other drink has so much nonsense around it.

Murphy's and O'Hara's Nitro are better stouts anyway especially if you're drinking at home.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120072471#Comment_120072471

I got Guinness 500ml glasses in Tesco a few weeks ago

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120072081#Comment_120072081

Angry late night rant. Must have had a obnoxiously strong pale ale or two too many.

Yurt2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120072536#Comment_120072536

Thought that post might send Dr Pintman McAbominable Flashman's eye twitching in in anger.

Drinking Guinness isn't a substitute for a personality, and if you're "destroying your hoop after a feed of the good stuff", you should probably consult a doctor instead of logging onto an internet forum to update strangers on your malfunctioning bowel movements.

P.S, I know you took the post about Guinness personally, which rather proves my point.

CGI_Livia_Soprano

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120072536#Comment_120072536

Very bound up individual, this poster would opine.

Dslatt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120072486#Comment_120072486

Ah here, good Guinness pubs is definately a thing

theteal

I may be some form of philistine but I was under the impression the word "draught" meant it was freshly pulled from a larger vessel, usually in a pub-like location.

Have I been wrong all this time???

Yurt2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120072716#Comment_120072716

I see I have awoken the chimera.

What doth displayeth constipation and inner turmoil more than running multiple accounts? My Guinness swilling liege. Not that I accuseth you of such a thing. Heavens no.

chooseusername

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120072471#Comment_120072471

You’d need an oversized glass for a straight pour to get a pint. That was tried years ago and didn’t last long, surprise, surprise.

Scotty #

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120072952#Comment_120072952

I've watched lots of barmen do a straight pour and there's no difference in the look or the amount of beer in the glass. And there's certainly no difference in the taste. It's a nonsense and a waste of his time and mine.

silliussoddius

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120072784#Comment_120072784

Usually just good pubs in general that rely on repeat customers and not places that rely on visitors or people plastered to the eye balls who would drink any old slop.

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120074187#Comment_120074187

It is indeed something to relax and enjoy.

A well poured pint and a glass of Jameson sitting side by side on a polished mahogany counter.

Savour it, as close to perfect as life gets.

ohnonotgmail

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120072820#Comment_120072820

No but called draught as it replicates the draught sold in pubs. as opposed to the older cans and bottles that didn't.

kerryjack

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120074276#Comment_120074276

Ya me thinking the same know of a lad down here who has spent thousands of euro on equipment and is obsessed with glasses being washed properly and all the bull that goes with it and looking for the perfect pint, but got a bit huffed when I told him you will never have the perfect pint in a shed. Like you said the perfect pint is in a nice public house on a nice counter in front of a nice fire with good company, heaven on earth.

Dslatt

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120074276#Comment_120074276

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120074276#Comment_120074276

I'm literally counting down the minutes to enjoy just this