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What exactly causes a "bad pint"?

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  • #62
    irish_goat
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    dan1895 wrote: »
    Never mind slop taps, what's the deal with pouring a pint from two different taps? Just wrong imo

    If it's the same beer coming out of each tap what does it matter?

    I've worked with a lad who also claimed to have done the whole refilling of a keg with slops whenever he was working in a student's union bar. If I remember correctly he said they had a tapping head with a funnel welded onto the top of it.


  • #63
    ciaran76
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    I was in The Bloody Stream a few weeks ago and was had 2 pints of Galway Hooker and they were perfect.
    From here we went to a bar in Malahide also serving Galway Hooker and I asked for a pint and it tasted "funny" compared to what I had drank 20 mins beforehand.

    Mentioned it to the barman and he said he had no complaints. I asked for a new one in a new glass and it also tasted funny so told him I couldn't drink it.
    He wasn't impressed I think he may have thought I was a messer basically.

    Anyway went back to my friends and noticed 2 other people changing their drinks (not Galway Hooker) also. Must have been the glasses or how they were washed. Anyway we left after everyone finished their 1 and only drink.


  • #64
    Big Nasty
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    irish_goat wrote: »
    I've worked with a lad who also claimed to have done the whole refilling of a keg with slops whenever he was working in a student's union bar. If I remember correctly he said they had a tapping head with a funnel welded onto the top of it.

    Definitely happens, or used to anyway - I've done it myself.

    Common practice was to keep your Guinnness slops and your larger slops seperately and pour them back in to kegs using the method above then send them back as bad kegs or 'RB's'. Diageo, or Guinness Ireland as it was then, started testing the kegs to check their content and it became less widespread then. I never re-tapped a slop keg myself or saw it being done either, always returned.


  • #65
    ronan45
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    MCMLXXV wrote: »
    Definitely happens, or used to anyway - I've done it myself.

    Common practice was to keep your Guinnness slops and your larger slops seperately and pour them back in to kegs using the method above then send them back as bad kegs or 'RB's'. Diageo, or Guinness Ireland as it was then, started testing the kegs to check their content and it became less widespread then. I never re-tapped a slop keg myself or saw it being done either, always returned.

    I did that in a very well known bar chain.. but was told they were sent back to Guinness for credit??!?!? they certainly didnt re-attach them to be sold again no way. The slops kegs were put to the side and were collected by the brewery!


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