GUINNESS DRAUGHT
by drinker on Feb.11, 2009, under Beer Reviews
Guinness is probably my favorite beer that I can get everywhere. Meaning its a beer I can go into any airport in the world and have a good chance of getting one.
Guinness’s website is pretty good but you have to enter your age before you enter. Someone thinks you can get drunk by looking at the page or something. I seriously don’t get the whole age filter thing what really is the point. Who cares if some kid under the legal drinking age learns about the creation of guinness.
If you have never had a guinness before your first one can be hard to get down if you drink it incorrectly. Most people will sip the top for the first time and only taste the bitter head. They will then put the beer down and ask you why the hell you drink that crap. But if they drink it correctly it can greatly change their opinion. If your first time at drinking guinness did not end with some of the creamy head on your nose you did not drink it correctly. Try again. (Upon second reading I can’t believe the amount of sexual innuedos in this paragraph)
I have to say that the taste of guinness can vary from region to region but it is still best in Ireland. I know that it is passe to say that it is best in Ireland, but it really is. I have to say that I only had one bad guinness in my life time and that was at a dive bar that had the old style bottles without the widget.
Guinness Draught is a stout or porter. This type of beer was created out of a screwup. Basicly they burnt the grain and sold it a discount to the local pubs. The pubs discounted it and the porters (dock workers) drank it because it was cheaper. So that is how this type of beer got its name. Well a particular Mr Guinness happen to like this type of beer and decided to perfect it in his version called Guinness Stout.
If you are expecting a thick or heavy beer you will be suprised. Guinness is remarkably light when drinken correctly.
Its good and you should pick one up next time your are out. And it has more then a quarter inch of head send it back and tell them to do a two stage pour.
