Price of a pint !

It's not "proving" your point at all.

What part of "you have to LIKE THE TASTE of the drink" do you you not understand?

Nobody is "proving" your point and you're talking nonsense.

I can tell the difference between a Guinness, a Beamish, a Murphys, an Oyster and a Guinness 0.0. I can say that because I have tried them all…and other stouts too. Even my own homebrew.

That you say I would not be able to identify the difference just shows that you're talking nonsense.

Into the bargain, nobody said that it wasn't a "generic mass marketed stout" and nobody has said that it had "magic properties" either.

However it does have a particular taste, and it's one that instantly recognisable to people that like that taste, whether you like it or not.

I've done it with Beamish and 0.0's.

Beamish tastes sweeter. It's not an unpleasant taste, but it's definitely different to Guinness. The same goes for a 0.0. which I will drink if I'm out during the week because of work. Murphys definitely has a taste of it's own. In fairness I haven't had a pint of Murphys in a while because it's so damned hard to get up here.

Trust me, as an alternative to Guinness I've tried others. They are not the same.

Some people would drive you to drink…..

The cheapest pint preferably…..

Name an actual premises an a proper headroom of time to do it.

If they don't sell multiple - 4+ options - on draft, you're getting canned everything (and the premises has to agree to allowing outside cans in, unless they sell them themselves)

You can LOL all you want - you are going to fail in an actual double blind test, because everyone does. You'll only have one chance at saying something is Guinness, and realistically a 25% chance, in four products, of getting it right. But you also need to say what all the other products are too, because you've stated you can tell.

I've not got a great palate but I easily identified between draught Guinness and Beamish in a blind challenge - the coffee note in the latter was instantly recognisable. I might have struggled more between Murphys and Guinness and they've messed with the Beamish ABV since then but at the time it was chalk and cheese.

Picking between two where you know what the two are is not particularly hard.

Picking from 4 or 5 becomes extremely difficult, and is very funny when someone is insistent that Guinness is something uniquely identifiable, because they nearly always pick O'Haras…

I know full well that you would fail to identify the variety of stouts that you claim to be able to identify if offered them in a double blind tasting.

And you have proven beyond a doubt my point about intransigent Guinness drinkers.

Thanks.

Finally a new Boards Beers 🎆🎉🎇.

I would love to have a place to do it and invite the two Macros and the craft brewers to supply their products as well.

Same with lagers and ales etc.

Maybe somewhere with a proper venue might accept the challenge to prove the bullshíting from Diageo/Heineken with their expensive advertising wrong. A couple of the Craft places have the space and I can think of one in particular who might take the risk.

However I'm 99% sure that Diageo would immediately decline if such a challenge was put to them. Heineken might be slightly tempted because of their better quality offerings but they would probably be afraid they would lose out to one of the Craft breweries as well.

I can't dig air.

Anyway, goodnight L. Go to bed lad.

o7

Cork Beamish drinker here. I think somebody had been tampering with your Beamish if you think it’s sweeter :D

Yes, exactly. Murphy’s is very like Guinness but distinguishable (just about) by the sweeter taste. Neither Guinness or Beamish could be described as sweet, but Beamish with IMO the much stronger taste. Also, the taste of Beamish is much further from Guinness than Murphy’s.

Hadn't been out since before Christmas but a pint of Guinness in my local GAA club was 5.70 last night and very nice it was too.

But it's the Irish competition authority and / EU competition authority that bring an investigation and enforcement not the companies disadvantaged by such an abuse of a dominant competitor.