Any Guinness Drinkers?

[Scouse Hibee]

A few clubs I have been to lately have stopped selling Draught Keg Guinness due to low demand and replaced it with the tinned stuff that is poured into a glass whilst flat and then placed onto an agitator plate to give it a head. Despite club stewards trying to tell me it's just as good I think it's nowhere near a real pint of draught guinness. Does anyone like it?


Apologies for the spelling mistake in the title!

[Pretty Boy]

A few clubs I have been to lately have stopped selling Draught Keg Guinness due to low demand and replaced it with the tinned stuff that is poured into a glass whilst flat and then placed onto an agitator plate to give it a head. Despite club stewards trying to tell me it's just as good I think it's nowhere near a real pint of draught guinness. Does anyone like it?


Apologies for the spelling mistake in the title!

I got it put into our bar a while back. The shelf life of keg Guinness isn't great and we were wasting a lot so it was the surger or get rid of Guinness altogether.

The sales rep assured me it was just as good but I agree with you, It's not. It's better than the old widget cans but It's nowhere near as good as a real pint of the black stuff.

The science behind it is actually quite clever though. Compressed air bubbles in the can that are opened when the sound wave passes through them.

Good idea, needs more work.

[Hibernia&Alba]

I used to only drink Guinness re bevy, but whilst being a lovely drink, it sure puts the weight on you. I haven't touched it for over two years, and whilst I'm two stones lighter, I do miss it.

It had to be the real deal keg in a pub, though, and I would never accepted it being poured from a can.

[Mikey]

I like Guinness, and it's usually pretty reliable, but if you get a bad one it can be really bad. Most of the pubs I go to serve real ale and I'll have a stout/porter/80/IPA before I choose a Guinness so don't have it so often now.

The best pint I've ever had was in the Guinness pub in Newark airport!!

[YehButNoBut]

Love a pint of Guinness but try to only have it occasionally now because, as mentioned above, it does put the weight on you.

Easily the best pint of Guinness you will ever get is in the bar at the top of the Guinness factory in Dublin.

The best pint I've ever had. :cheers:

[Scouse Hibee]

Love a pint of Guinness but try to only have it occasionally now because, as mentioned above, it does put the weight on you.

Easily the best pint of Guinness you will ever get is in the bar at the top of the Guinness factory in Dublin.

The best pint I've ever had. :cheers:

Funny thing is I too went to the bar at the top of the Guinness factory in anticipation of having the best pint of Guinness I would ever taste. What a let down, IMO it wasn't anything special to be honest. Come to think of it I don't even get the clamour that the Guinness in Dublin is superb compared to everywhere else, a myth in my opinion as a regular Guinness drinker.

[MSK]

Funny thing is I too went to the bar at the top of the Guinness factory in anticipation of having the best pint of Guinness I would ever taste. What a let down, IMO it wasn't anything special to be honest. Come to think of it I don't even get the clamour that the Guinness in Dublin is superb compared to everywhere else, a myth in my opinion as a regular Guinness drinker.Prob the same as the myth that Guinness doesnt travel ..Ive had Guinness in Dublin & Ive had Guinness in the Jewel Miners club, the Park Royal Guinness can be good or bad ..mostly down to cellar management as opposed to where it travelled from ..:agree:

[Lucius Apuleius]

The reason I am a fat ******. :greengrin

Regarding the surger, I don't mind them. I bought the domestic unit when they went on sale years ago. Problem is they took the cans off the supermarket shelf and stopped selling them. First night I used it my mate was up for a couple of bevvies. The blonde bimbo (AKA the missus) decided my mate's lager needed a burst as it looked flat. She never did that again!!! My local uses the surger as well now due to low consumption.

[Hiber-nation]

Funny thing is I too went to the bar at the top of the Guinness factory in anticipation of having the best pint of Guinness I would ever taste. What a let down, IMO it wasn't anything special to be honest. Come to think of it I don't even get the clamour that the Guinness in Dublin is superb compared to everywhere else, a myth in my opinion as a regular Guinness drinker.

I thought the pint in the Guinness factory was very nice but not as good as the pint in the St John Grogarty (?) in the Temple Bar which was the best I've tasted.

Have to say I hardly bothering ordering it in Edinburgh these days as the chances of a really good pint are slim.

[degenerated]

Funny thing is I too went to the bar at the top of the Guinness factory in anticipation of having the best pint of Guinness I would ever taste. What a let down, IMO it wasn't anything special to be honest. Come to think of it I don't even get the clamour that the Guinness in Dublin is superb compared to everywhere else, a myth in my opinion as a regular Guinness drinker.

Best pint of Guinness I've had was in Coleraine, a lot better than any of the many I've had in Dublin. The barman put a 2p on the head of a pint and it didn't sink, not sure if that's a good or bad thing mind :greengrin

[Peevemor]

Funny thing is I too went to the bar at the top of the Guinness factory in anticipation of having the best pint of Guinness I would ever taste. What a let down, IMO it wasn't anything special to be honest. Come to think of it I don't even get the clamour that the Guinness in Dublin is superb compared to everywhere else, a myth in my opinion as a regular Guinness drinker.

Before I moved from Edinburgh I drunk nothing but Guinness (pub wise). Although I never found the Guinness in Dublin to be particularly superb, it's definitely different from what you get in the UK. In fact the London and Dublin Guinness breweries were fiercely competitive and would deliberately buy their raw materials from different sources - if you supplied one you were blacklisted by the other. The best pints of Guinness are generally served in pubs that sell a lot of Guinness - it needs to be 'fresh'. The worst pint you'll get is the first served of the day, where half the pint has been sitting in the pipes overnight.