Stout fans ahoy!

simu

Who here drinks stout? Or is it not trendy nowadays?

Me, I like a glass of Guinness (or Murphy's if I'm in Cork), especially as an accompaniment to a sandwich in the pub during the day.

Zaph

I tend only to drink Guinness if I'm in a pub I can be sure of getting a good pint, such as Mulligans or Kehoes. Failing that, I usually only drink it if I find myself in some dingy little pub down the arse-end of the country as you can usually be sure of a decent pint. The Porterhouse do a rather nice Oyster Stout, which is a little bit different to Guinness and the rest. Their beer menu says it's "not suitable for vegetarians", which has to be a first for a beer.

20 Times 20 Times

Im a guinness man if teh conditions are right , example my local pub i drink guinness all the time , if im in a strnage place i will check to see what people are drinking and see if there is a flow out of the guinness thats one thing i love ,

i remember working in a bar before in dundalk , i finshed at 6 and at 5.55 i had 15 pints of guinness ready to be served at 6.05 i poured the 16th pint my pint it was heaven a moment that will last forever

monkeyfudge

I love my Guinness.

I like beer too... but I'd never drink a pint of beer in a pub... I'll always go for either Guinness or a whiskey.

The extra cold stuff really pisses me off though... in my local pub I actually have to specify if I want 'cold' or 'old' when I'm ordering a Guinness. It should be people who want their Guinness frozen that should have to specify... not me.

feylya

Love Guinness. Like Razzler's from the Porterhouse too on occassion.

Talliesin

Guinness, if all I can get is mass-produced beers.

Karl Hungus

Definetly a Guinness man. It's also excellent to have a pint with a nice carvery dinner at some pub/resteraunt. Om nyom!

Chris P Duck

I like to have a few pints of guinness when im out for a relaxing night out and not on the piss. I had my first pint of Murphys at the weekend. It is one of the nicest drinks I have ever tasted. I dont know why its not availabe on draught in most pubs around the country.

RE*AC*TOR

Guinness can be great. Though a lot can be said for Beamish and Murphys as well. Good drinks. Oyster Stout in the Porterhouse is probably my favourite though. Lovely flavour, great creamyness.

Large bottle of guinness from the shelf/or cooler are also worth a try - i'd have one every once in a while. They're a lot gassier - but nice to taste as well - slightly different. Even better if you go to a pub that has crap guinness.

I'd agree with monkeyfudge - the extra cold is a heap of ****e. Completely loses the flavour of guinness. To be avoided at all costs.

rubadub

zaph wrote:

Their beer menu says it's "not suitable for vegetarians", which has to be a first for a beer.

Most beers are not suitable for vegans since they use finings derived from animals, finings cause the yeast to drop to the bottom of the fermenter.

Porterhouse xxxx stout is lovely, gets great reviews, I have never had the oyster, I feared it would be overpowering, is it?

Guinness in dublin, murphys in cork, beamish if on offer. Mainly I stick with ones I know will be freshest, I remember murphys and beamish were one offer in college, it was lovely since the kegs were been changed every hour.

Roar

i've been drinking Beamish since i started drinking. not at all fond of Guinness or Murphs..

that and Beamish is pure Cork, like

honru

Love the Guinness. It's a hefty beer but I still drink it like it was water.

Sarky

I likes my Stout, I does.

I'll happily spend a night drinking Guinness, Murphy's, or Beamish.

I tried a Russian porter not so long ago called Baltika 6 (I think). Very strong, 7% or thereabouts, but a nice earthy tasty drink all the same.

sound_wave

I love Guiness, having said that I'm partial to a couple of pints of Murphys and Beamish too, being from Cork and all. Anyone try the stout in the Franciscan Well in Cork?

Galvo

Yeah - Franciscan Wells stout is pretty good although it would benefit from a creamier head. I find the micro-brewed stouts taste great if they're fresh - make Guinness seem very bland. They can be poor if they're stale though. Best is Black Biddy (even for the name!), followed by O'Haras.

Zaph

rubadub wrote:

Porterhouse xxxx stout is lovely, gets great reviews, I have never had the oyster, I feared it would be overpowering, is it?

It's actually quite subtle. You know there's something slightly "different" about it, but if you weren't told you probably wouldn't guess that there are oysters in the mix.

Antisocialiser

I love guiness too not that extra cold tho. I do think its interesting though when you look at it in a scientific way. When the particles are colder they pack tighter together and therefore you get more per cm3 theoretically. So maybe you get more value for money drinkin the colder one. Although it tastes like muck

monkeyfudge

Isn't one of the secret ingredients in Guinness vanilla?

When it's extra cold I sure feel like I'm drinking an icecream... I always get those horrible brain freeze headaches... yuck... horrible stuff altogether...

Trampas

Extra cold guinness to for the benefit of the pub as it settles quicker than the regular.

So pubs can serve guinness faster

rubadub

I dont mind the cold guinness in the summer, esp if I am drinking slow so it doesnt warm up. Havent had one in ages though. Last time was because the busy bar were not letting the glasses cool fully from the washer, sinners.

brianw

extra cold is for people who didnt like the taste of guinness before. the colder a beer the less taste. we all drink beer too cold anyway. a really good guinness pub will usually only have the real stuff on tap. its a healthy sign.

i like lager/pils as well but the quality of the stuff brewed in irelands a f*ckin disgrace.

The Sweeper

I love guinness. I've found a few surprisingly good pubs near to me (me being in the uk), one or two of which actually do a really excellent pint of guinness.

However, I've stopped drinking three pints and lunchtime and abusing my suppliers in the early afternoon. Not because it was bad for business, more because it was giving our sales team too much of a bloody laugh at my expense.

Cake Fiend

There's nothing like a good Guinness. And it's very hard to find a good Guinness outside of Ireland unfortunately.

I'll have the odd Murphys in Cork, or preferably the aforementioned Franciscan Well stout - serious stuff. Porterhouse's Wrassler is another interesting pint.

Gazza22

Nah i'm afraid i'm not a guinness man! I just don't like the stuff.

jester77

Love Guinness, the only thing I can drink while in Ireland provided I am in the right pub, otherwise it's whiskey!! Living in Germany now and when I come home there's no way I can drink the pi** poor lagers! Gotta love this country, quality pils at great prices... praise the [size=-1]Rheinheitsgebot
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pickarooney

I loved the oul Darcy's when I lived in Smithfield. I haven't had a proper pint of stout in over 18 months, but revenge will be had this weekend

Sleepy

Of the drinks brewed in this country it's next to impossible to beat a good pint of Guinness imho. Never been impressed with Murphy's though that said, I've only ever tried it in Galway where it's not exactly served regularly...

Beau

Chris P Duck wrote:

I had my first pint of Murphys at the weekend. It is one of the nicest drinks I have ever tasted. I dont know why its not availabe on draught in most pubs around the country.

I agree! Its so much niceer than Guiness. I only got it because my rugby club was forced to have it on tap for a Heineken festival and I`m delighted they were, its gorgeus. Does it taste as nice from a can?

noby

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

Large bottle of guinness from the shelf/or cooler are also worth a try - i'd have one every once in a while. They're a lot gassier - but nice to taste as well - slightly different. Even better if you go to a pub that has crap guinness.

Large bottle of Guinness from the shelf is the job. So much more flavour/roastyness than the draught. O'Hara's gives it a good run for its money.
I find a lot of places have the Guinness way too cold (and I'm not talking about the extra-cold one) There's no way it should be served the same temp. as a cold lager.

On draught, I'd pick Murphy's over Guinness

m_stan

I'm a Guinness man. Cold flow, old flow, large and small bottles, cans, whatever. Love the stuff. Can't get enough of it.

Topped off with a toasted ham and cheese with mustard sambo, and I'm in heaven !

muckwarrior

First choice Guinness. Second, Smithwicks. I'd drink Cider occasionaly if i'm not in the mood for either of the other. Have tried Beamish and liked it, tried Murphys too but didn't like it at all. Didn't have a nice after taste, but suppose I could just have been unlucky and gotten a bad pint.

monument

I like good Guinness too much, so much so getting the odd pint of dubious quality can put me off the black stuff for months.

kenmc

Guinness would be my tipple of choice if it was in a good guinness pub. Otherwise I'd be into the belgians et al, like you'd get in the porterhouse.
Currently drinking a vanilla-stout homebrew. MMMMmmm.

Thrasher

kenmc wrote:

Currently drinking a vanilla-stout homebrew. MMMMmmm.

Hi KenMc, this is just what I want to put down for my next brew. Can you recommend a brew recipe for Vanilla Stout - are you brewing from extracts or grain (or both)?

My last brew was an Irish Stout (Coopers extract). Came out quite dry, but improves with age (two months down, it's tasting better).

/T

Dimitri

Love murphys, my favourite of the stouts, i usually only get beamish if i'm poor, but its pretty good all the same. I would rather drink nothing at all than to have to drink guiness, i think it tastes awful.

Maharet

Ah yeah Guinness is lovely, only started drinkin it again recently, only drink when I'm down in Waterford though, have gotten a couple of dodgy pints in Dublin which has made me wary if drinkin it up here. Apart from Ron Blacks, which has a good pint. Any recommendations for other pubs with good Guinness up in Dublin?

I wouldn't drink more than 4 pints though, tis a heavy drink, maybe when I get more used to it, I'll be able to drink more.

Sarky

After a visiting it again this year for Confess in Sligo, I can confirm that T n C club (sp?) pours a very, very tasty pint of Guinness. It also sells Hot Lips, which go down very well alongside said Guinness...

kenmc

Thrasher wrote:

Hi KenMc, this is just what I want to put down for my next brew. Can you recommend a brew recipe for Vanilla Stout - are you brewing from extracts or grain (or both)?

My last brew was an Irish Stout (Coopers extract). Came out quite dry, but improves with age (two months down, it's tasting better).

/T

Sorry Thrasher, only saw this now.
I'm still doing kits, don't have the space to store loads of stuff for extract/grain brewing yet
What I did was split the above mentioned Coopers Stout, and half of it got a dollop of vanilla essense added to it in the secondary. The unmodified stuff was nice, and is getting nicer still, but the modified stuff is real smooth!

biko

Big stout man here. I like Murphy's, Guinness and Beamish in that order.
Of lately I've taken to pints of "Special", Smitwick's with a Guinness head, mmm lovely. A bit lighter than stout but still that "thick-ish" taste.
Not very common, I've had to explain in Dublin and Belfast, but bartenders in Galway always now what I mean. Getting my friends hooked on it too

Zaph

Smithwicks with a Guinness head is nothing new, I remember my father ordering it occasionally when I was a kid (a long time ago!).

Maharet, Mulligan's in Poolbeg Street, Kehoe's in South Anne Street and McDaid's in Harry Street all do a decent pint of Guinness.