Guinness shortage

[charlie smudgeboots]

Guinness is a strange drink, it's either very good or very bad depending where you go. The Church Bar in Alvor Portugal keeps a wonderful pint and it's only just gone up to €5

 

[crublue1]

Guinness is a strange drink, it's either very good or very bad depending where you go. The Church Bar in Alvor Portugal keeps a wonderful pint and it's only just gone up to €5

I'll raise you the black anchor in tavira, perfectly kept Guinness, poured properly by the Irish owners.
Great views of the river as you sit outside and watch the sun set between the arches. Always seems to be a guy strumming a guitar.
I would love to retire there.

 

[crublue1]

If you got a pint served straight up in a Dublin pub without the settle and top up, you’d hand it back and tell the barman to try again.

Absolutely mate.
Walk into any busy pub in Ireland and you'll see many incomplete pints on the bar top, waiting to be finished, each will have a customer waiting.

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Still distressed that someone nicked my thread @Blue Mist but all the points raised are correct particularly about double pouring and respecting the Gods Nectar

 

[dublinblue12]

I like guinness but the marketing guff around it winds me up. Maybe I see through it as I’ve worked in marketing for 20 years.

“Tastes better in Dublin”. No it doesn’t.

The shit about pouring it slowly is a load of old bollocks as well. Theatre to make it seem like a premium product that’s somehow more special than any other mass produced corporate beer. Total bullshit.

Not sure if wumming about the quality of the pour but it 100% tastes better in Dublin/Ireland than elsewhere, though it has improved elsewhere

It tastes better in Dublin than it does in Toronto

Though agree maybe not in Toronto apart from maybe PJs which isn't bad as well as Galway arms (and the Stout in cabbage town does a great pint of Murphys)

However if you get a nitro surger and a regular can, doesn't have to be a surger can, and pour it all in one go the quality will be close to a pint served outside of Dublin.

 

[Barcon]

Not sure if wumming about the quality of the pour but it 100% tastes better in Dublin/Ireland than elsewhere, though it has improved elsewhere

Though agree maybe not in Toronto apart from maybe PJs which isn't bad as well as Galway arms (and the Stout in cabbage town does a great pint of Murphys)

However if you get a nitro surger and a regular can, doesn't have to be a surger can, and pour it all in one go the quality will be close to a pint served outside of Dublin.

The only place I drink Guinness over here is the Dora Keogh on the Danforth.
Never been to the places you mention but will keep it in mind if I'm downtown.
I'll be at Murphy's law next month so will check out a pint there.

 

[M23 Citizen]

All the social media ‘Split the G’ trend wankers are ruining it for all us Guinness drinkers.