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Guinness is a good drop.

Pauliedragon

I'm a Heineken drinker but being the day that's in it I went on the black stuff yesterday and it was surprisingly nice. Such an easy pint to drink. I might change my habits.

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Sam Quentin

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

Love the stuff, and would put away 8-10 barrels of it a year. Could never understand this idea that it’s heavy and hard to drink - it’s far easier sink a dozen pints of Guinness than it is lager. The main side effect the next day are the frankly horrific farts - the type that hang around and almost burn the hair in your nostrils.

Surely that's a good enough reason to cut down on the barrells per year!?

Technocentral

One of a dozen or so stouts available in Ireland and not the best, that would be Porterhouse Wrasslers imo.

Titzon Toast

I've never had a pint of Guinness if I'm honest. I'm 40 later this year, I'll try to get one in before then.

[Deleted User]

dan1895 wrote: »

So you admit it's as bland as f*ck?

Admit? Do you think you’re Perry Mason or something?

It’s as plain as vanilla ice cream, a home baked brown soda bread, a fresh pot of tea with an extra bag, new boiled potatoes with salt and butter or a toasted cheese sandwich.

I like it. Couldn’t give two sticky black sheites what you think of it, one way or the other.

rob316

The one major disadvantage to drinking stout though is the awful inconsistency from pub to pub. It could be mother's milk or dishwater.

rob316

Heineken is absolute piss OP.

Stout is a proper drink, I'm a Beamish man but Guinness is a fine pint of plain.

You can sing to a good pint of plain, write a poem about it, stare lovingly at it.

I will agree though it can kill me when it exits. But lager makes me bloated and gassy and cider does evil things to me.

EmmetSpiceland

Force Carrier wrote: »

In either case it should taste like martini.

Which it does but some connoisseurs out there believe that something happens to the drink, like pounding a steak but this is of course nonsense.

Same with the two pint pour. Any skilled barman can pull a perfect pint in one go. The bad rap comes from unskilled barmen, mainly in the UK, pulling the pint like it’s some cheap cider.

Ipso

dan1895 wrote: »

So you admit it's as bland as f*ck?

Bit it is easy drinking and not as heavy as many think, the nitrogen dulls the flavout in the draught version but the old style bottles are nicer.

Franz Von Peppercorn

dan1895 wrote: »

So you admit it's as bland as f*ck?

Bland is grand.

Force Carrier

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

It’s akin to claiming to taste the difference between a shaken or stirred martini.

In either case it should taste like martini.

dan1895

JayZeus wrote: »

Guinness is like bread and butter. Nobody thinks it's like a Vol-au-vent or a Croissant. It's about as straightforward as it gets.

So you admit it's as bland as f*ck?

JohnnyFlash

I think it’s very easy to enjoy Guinness at times, and at times some fancy stout crafted in a former dog kennel by a heavily bearded guy called Conall using recycled rain water and 19 types of hops.

Depends on the mood. That O’Hara’s Leann Follin is perhaps the nicest stout I’ve ever tasted, but I’m not going to sink 12 of them after a day in Croke Park.

[Deleted User]

Ipso wrote: »

What makes the two pour pintdifferent, apart from the nice notrogen effect and the expectation that you have to wait implies something superior.

Superior to what? Something that's poured in a single movement?

If you honestly think that people who typically drink Guinness are affected by such notions, I don't know what anyone here could say to change your mind.

Guinness is like bread and butter. Nobody thinks it's like a Vol-au-vent or a Croissant. It's about as straightforward as it gets. 'A pint' means, for the most part, a Guinness. Or a Murphys or a Beamish or whatnot.

Traditional Irish stout has sweet **** all pretension about it. It's only when fellas who think chilli coffee stout or caramel fandango stout are comparable that any of that bolloxology comes up as regards a pint of Guinness.

As Forest's mother used to tell him, you can't fix stupid.

Ipso

JayZeus wrote: »

The only people who say that are people who don't drink Guinness often enough to have encountered a muck pint. If they do, they benefit from the double pour while remaining totally ignorant of the purpose anyway.

The double pour helps with delivering a consistent pint to the person who wants their Guinness to be the same, no matter where they drink it. Same head size, same flavour/taste as regards not going stale quicker in one place than the other etc.

It's the same reason for insisting all the kit used to deliver it from the keg and ideally right down to the supply of tulip or nonic pint glasses. It's all about consistency. I've had savage pints in Skerries and Singapore and some pure crap in between when the locals think it's just 'beer'. It's not just beer. Uncivilised apes.

And if you think it doesn't matter, just try drinking guinness that's not chilled properly and then slopped into a tankard in a single pour somewhere in the south of Europe for example. If you still can't tell the difference, you might as well drink cold bovril instead of a pint of stout.

It's not some magical potion. It's a pint, but it should be a good pint, always. It matters, and if it doesn't matter to you, you're not the fella anyone's concerned about in the first place. Consistently good pints. That's the most important thing where Guinness is concerned.

Lovely, lovely Guinness.

What makes the two pour pintdifferent, apart from the nice notrogen effect and the expectation that you have to wait implies something superior.

[Deleted User]

ben.schlomo wrote: »

You keep telling yourself that.

https://www.ratebeer.com/beerstyles/stout/6/

Yeah, well done. You find some random internet site containing a ranking for ALL stouts GLOBALLY and completely miss the point that Nox is talking (clearly, obviously, you'd want to be blind to miss it) about Irish stout. You know, the stuff most Irish people think about when someone says a 'pint of stout'.

Just looking at that list makes me think that the people who 'rate' stouts on that site are probably **** anyway. Your average pint drinker isn't going to even consider the pints of wankerish-hipster-brew that are listed.

ben.schlomo

Benjamin Vast Apostrophe wrote: »

dan1895 wrote: »

But Guinness is one of the worst stouts out there. Murphy's, Beamish, O'Hara's, all the Porterhouse stouts and even Super Bock Stout are all superior.

Guinesss is by far and away the nicest stout, porterhouse plain is a nice enough stout also but not as nice as Guinness. Beamish is ok, you could drink one or two but you get tired of it then and Murphys is undrinkable muck.

You keep telling yourself that.

https://www.ratebeer.com/beerstyles/stout/6/

[Deleted User]

Knex. wrote: »

The double pour is a marketing ploy from Guinness. Makes absolutely zero difference to the pint, regardless of what people will claim.

The only people who say that are people who don't drink Guinness often enough to have encountered a muck pint. If they do, they benefit from the double pour while remaining totally ignorant of the purpose anyway.

The double pour helps with delivering a consistent pint to the person who wants their Guinness to be the same, no matter where they drink it. Same head size, same flavour/taste as regards not going stale quicker in one place than the other etc.

It's the same reason for insisting all the kit used to deliver it from the keg and ideally right down to the supply of tulip or nonic pint glasses. It's all about consistency. I've had savage pints in Skerries and Singapore and some pure crap in between when the locals think it's just 'beer'. It's not just beer. Uncivilised apes.

And if you think it doesn't matter, just try drinking guinness that's not chilled properly and then slopped into a tankard in a single pour somewhere in the south of Europe for example. If you still can't tell the difference, you might as well drink cold bovril instead of a pint of stout.

It's not some magical potion. It's a pint, but it should be a good pint, always. It matters, and if it doesn't matter to you, you're not the fella anyone's concerned about in the first place. Consistently good pints. That's the most important thing where Guinness is concerned.

Lovely, lovely Guinness.

irish_goat

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Believe me, it makes all the difference.

[citation needed]

dan1895

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

That West Indies porter was a lovely drop

As is the Dublin Porter, Guinness Foreign Extra and stuff you can get in Africa. All nice flavoursome stouts.

Church on Tuesday

Knex. wrote: »

The double pour is a marketing ploy from Guinness. Makes absolutely zero difference to the pint, regardless of what people will claim.

Believe me, it makes all the difference.

Knex*

Ipso wrote: »

Would there be something wrong with single pour Guinness, does the magic not work?

The double pour is a marketing ploy from Guinness. Makes absolutely zero difference to the pint, regardless of what people will claim.

OldMrBrennan83

Single pour leaves you with a 2 inch head or a messy glass.

EmmetSpiceland

Ipso wrote: »

Would there be something wrong with single pour Guinness, does the magic not work?

It’s akin to claiming to taste the difference between a shaken or stirred martini.

Ipso

JayZeus wrote: »

That’s a pretty decent effort at trolling right there.

Well done. Now off you go with your ‘glass’ and the drop of blackcurrant.

Edit: They should give a fella who wants a single pour pint of Guinness exactly what he wants. It’s just what they deserve.

Would there be something wrong with single pour Guinness, does the magic not work?

inforfun

My very first pint of Guinness was shortly after i arrived here in Ireland.
It was in the Guinness factory. I did like that one but i never had one in a pub that came close to it till the point that i thought i was actually trying to drink brown bread.
I dont like brown bread.

Mike Oxlong

Insect Overlord wrote: »

They had a smoked chili porter out called Heat Sink. Tesco might still have cans of it.

Had a few cans from SuperValu....it was ok... without spending too much money, I think Leann Folláin is a great stout.... but DKML from Founders is different gravy (not Irish I know) but worth spending a few quid on

Church on Tuesday

OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »

Hotels are usually the worst of the lot.

Forgot them too, have to agree

OldMrBrennan83

Hotels are usually the worst of the lot.

Church on Tuesday

Hector Savage wrote: »

Exactly, need to get a good pint of Guinness, a lot of people are judging it in places where the pint is not great.

Last time I was home in Ireland I had a couple of lunchtime pints in Ryans on Parkgate street - with a few packet of King crisps.

Heaven.

Literal Heaven.

This.

For me, as a general rule, the best pints of Guinness are to be found in 'old man' type pubs.

Gastro pub or late bar type place, not so much.

There is nothing worse than a bad pint of Guinness, it's undrinkable if not perfect.

Patrick2010

Insect Overlord wrote: »

They had a smoked chili porter out called Heat Sink. Tesco might still have cans of it.

I quite liked that but it obviously wasn't a good seller. Started off at 2.99 a can but eventually my local Tesco sold them off at 30 cent a can.