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Insufferable beer snobs.

JohnnyFlash

I was down West over the weekend for a few days holiday, and visited a pub on the Friday night as it has a good reputation for seafood.

No ordering at the bar these days, so some dork with a ginger beard and a load of tattoos came down to take our order. I asked for a dozen oysters to start, and a pint of Guinness. 'We have an excellent selections of stouts and porters in the bottle, as well as our own house stout if you'd prefer that instead', he said upon hearing my order.

'No you're grand, dude', I answered back.

'I can bring down a sample if you like. It's much more flavoursome than Guinness'.

'Grand so', I said, 'but make sure the Guinness is a decent pint as I'm rasping here with the thirst'.

Down comes my pint of Guinness, and I horse it into me like it's my last. Eventually a sample of their own house stout arrives down with my oysters. It tastes like bovril, cabbage water, and what I'd imagine a fungal toe infection tastes like. Disgusting.

Why do beer snobs always want to push their overpriced muck on punters? Like there's a few craft beers I like, especially that Galway Hooker stuff, but I'll try them in my own good time. This is the second time something like this has happened to me in the past year, and I'm wondering why beer snobs just can't get over the idea that the majority of people want the beer they want?

The Guinness was lovely btw, and I polished off 8 of them within the time we were allowed stay in the pub.

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jackboy

Strumms wrote: »

It’s true....the pour, the temperature, clean glasses, with no residue of anything..,... I know the best pubs for Guinness and some of the worst too. Best Guinness I’ve ever had... the Gravediggers Glasnevin, the temperature, consistency, head, it’s yummy.

The pour is irrelevant.

iamstop

It's funny how the new being a beer snob is 'I can't stand beer snobs'.

murpho999

ThewhiteJesus wrote: »

Any craft beer drinker is a ***** imo, and I stay away from pubs that promote it, but each to their own

Why would somebody who doesn't like standard brewery p1ss like Heineken be an arsehole.

It's just different taste and none of it is compulsary.

murpho999

Deleted User wrote: »

What's wrong with calling someone "dude"? The hipster type chap isn't exactly averse
to using this American slang himself. Hardly derogatory when one is conversing to a bloke
in the service industry, especially if he's young. If he called him "mate" or "friend" the OP
would have suffered more "hounding" perhaps.

We're not in America. Hipsters don't all speak American either.

Mate is not normal in Ireland either.

Abel Ruiz

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

No ordering at the bar these days, so some dork with a ginger beard

'No you're grand, dude', I answered back.

The Guinness was lovely btw, and I polished off 8 of them within the time we were allowed stay in the pub.

You sound like the dork.

[Deleted User]

murpho999 wrote: »

We're not in America. Hipsters don't all speak American either.

Mate is not normal in Ireland either.

Would "Shcan", "Sham", or "Boss" be okay?

Maybe "Bud" or "Buddy"

Ush1

Zebra3 wrote: »

Question for Guinness drinkers.

What does Guinness taste like?

Like farts, coffee and an ashtray but that some how tastes grand.

Arghus

I fcking want a Guinness reading this.

Guinness is all about balance.

The taste of it is not something I think about too frequently; It tastes like Guinness.

I'm in love with the texture, the way it hits the back of your throat, the velvety quality of a really good and cold brand new pint.

Guinness strikes, for me, the perfect balance between some heaviness and some smoothness. Other stouts are either too heavy or too light, or too stuffed with out of place flavourings, designed to give some personality. Guinness is just right.

The whole good v bad pint debate isn't really about taste in my eyes. A bad pint is just alright, a good pint is creamy, refreshing and delicous and goes down before you even know it's happened.

Though, I must confess to have never drunk Guiness from a can. Doesn't feel right to me.

Still waters

Can't say I've ever met any beer snobs, I've met plenty pricks that talk out their holes about good and bad porter though

[Deleted User]

I’d definitely be one that drinks little other than small Irish brewery stuff these days. That said, someone who tells you what you should and should not want to drink is a pain in the flute.
If you want some Belgian monk stuff, grand. If you want Peroni or Coors then grand too. Enjoy.

Eggs For Dinner

I love beer

Guinness, but not Craft Stout
Heineken but not Craft Lager
IPAs, but not DIPAs
Citra Beers, but not Saison
Pale Ale but not Red Ale

There is no right or wrong, only what you like and what you don't

artanevilla

Guinness is the least stouty stout.

Temptamperu

I dont drink much as I said 2 pints and im drunk. nice way to save money.

Arghus

Eggs For Dinner wrote: »

I love beer

Guinness, but not Craft Stout
Heineken but not Craft Lager
IPAs, but not DIPAs
Citra Beers, but not Saison
Pale Ale but not Red Ale

There is no right or wrong, only what you like and what you don't

Red ale is a funny one. I've drank some that were really tasty and then others that were terrible. Like genuinely terrible, vaguely tasted like vomit.

Temptamperu

Whos drinking for the taste?

Deagol

I got into the IPA's a few years ago and I love to try them all - but most are ****e beyond measure. I'm partial to a local one and I keep a few bottles in the fridge but!!! I'm perfectly happy with me Carlsberg on a night out and I'd go for a Harpic if I could get it, had it up the North a few years ago and I can't figure out why it stopped going down this way.

Each to his own is my thing but definitely there are way too many gob****es who look down their noses at any of the established brews and will dull the ear of you talking rubbish about craft beers.

My question always is, if Guinness / Heineken / Carlsberg etc. etc. are crap and rubbish, how is that they've been around for 200-300 years??? Is it reasonable to surmise that the better breweries go bust while the cr@p one's survived?

Of course, Budweiser (IMO) may be the proof that that hypothesis is true

Strumms

jackboy wrote: »

The pour is irrelevant.

Not according to Guinness,

saabsaab

MrMusician18 wrote: »

It's the people you are with that makes a session in the pub interesting. Modern bars with their TVs and loud music are designed to stifle conversation so you drink more.

If you get bored in a conversation bar it says more about the company you're keeping tbh.

Hate them in a pub I never get bored in a pub, talking. Not too sure of those with me though.

Feisar

artanevilla wrote: »

Guinness is the least stouty stout.

Fullers London Porter, now there’s a stout.

jackboy

Strumms wrote: »

Not according to Guinness,

Yeah the pour thing is great marketing stuff.

Also the nitrogen gas in the pubs to cause the settling effect. People looking at it like it’s amazing. If Budweiser was put on the Guinness system it would settle just like a pint of Guinness.

Zebra3

Temptamperu wrote: »

Whos drinking for the taste?

Adults.

saabsaab

Temptamperu wrote: »

I dont drink much as I said 2 pints and im drunk. nice way to save money.

Handy. What do you do after the first twenty minutes in the pub?

Temptamperu

saabsaab wrote: »

Handy. What do you do after the first twenty minutes in the pub?

**** that I'm home.

rje66

saabsaab wrote: »

Handy. What do you do after the first twenty minutes in the pub?

Becomes the OP...........WINK WINK

saabsaab

Temptamperu wrote: »

**** that I'm home.

Ah Ha!

Pinch Flat

crying in my Belgian fruit lambic reading this thread

Royale with Cheese

Is the two part pour not because Guinness contracts slightly after its poured? Thus allowing it to contract, pour again and you get a nice head and slightly more beer than you would have if it was poured straight?

Cushtie

Ah jasus, I didn't go near a pint in nearly 10 years and ye have me gasping for one now!!

[Deleted User]

Arghus wrote: »

I fcking want a Guinness reading this.

Guinness is all about balance.

The taste of it is not something I think about too frequently; It tastes like Guinness.

I'm in love with the texture, the way it hits the back of your throat, the velvety quality of a really good and cold brand new pint.

Guinness strikes, for me, the perfect balance between some heaviness and some smoothness. Other stouts are either too heavy or too light, or too stuffed with out of place flavourings, designed to give some personality. Guinness is just right.

John B Keane described it better than anyone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL2Kq8uA0GI

Temptamperu

Cushtie wrote: »

Ah jasus, I didn't go near a pint in nearly 10 years and ye have me gasping for one now!!

It was about the same for me before tonight.