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Guinness [Extra] Stout - the carbonated stuff that comes in the bottles, not the flat, uncarbonated swill they call "draught." ("Guinness is good for you").
From the bottle, yes. Sometimes I'll pour it into a glass - but that takes time, time away from my lips.Are you drinking directly from the can/bottle?
It's amazing when you go into the larger liquor stores where I live (CO) just how many craft beers there are now. I used to be able to keep up with them and was able to sample most (and did with relish), but now that's not so... which I think is a good thing in itself.The USA is leading the charge on the craft beer revolution. Personally, I'm aquiring a taste for hops which I never really understood before. In Florida the most sought after beer seems to be made by Cigar City Brewing in Tampa. Other limited quantity beers which have quite a following are Hopslam by Bells, Piney the Elder and most of what is made by Stone Brewing in California.
From the bottle, yes. Sometimes I'll pour it into a glass - but that takes time, time away from my lips.
Guinness [Extra] Stout - the carbonated stuff that comes in the bottles, not the flat, uncarbonated swill they call "draught." ("Guinness is good for you"). Best for cold weather drinking.
I had my first Guinness on tap in a small inn in Harwich, UK. Thought I was drinking the elixir of the gods.That explains it. Directly out of the bottle, the extra stout is less flat, but when poured into a glass, I've always found it to taste flatter.
Both of them are basically ****e compared to what you get on tap in Ireland.
From the bottle, yes. Sometimes I'll pour it into a glass - but that takes time, time away from my lips.
This stuff is what I like:I have no idea what you're talking about.
Guinness Draught is far from flat or uncarbonated.
It's carbonated with nitrogen which helps to make for a freakin fabulous black & tan or half & half.
The only "swill" from Guinness is their poor excuse for a "Black Lager".
The Guinness Foreign Extra is fabulous.
Always pour beer into a glass, I NEVER drink it from the bottle. You're missing out on a lot if you don't. It releases the carbonation from the beer, so you'll be able to drink more without it upsetting your stomach. Plus the biggest part is it releases the aroma of the beer, which enhances the flavor greatly.
I know; and you're right - but sometimes, you just gotta have it from the bottle.Always pour beer into a glass, I NEVER drink it from the bottle. You're missing out on a lot if you don't. It releases the carbonation from the beer, so you'll be able to drink more without it upsetting your stomach. Plus the biggest part is it releases the aroma of the beer, which enhances the flavor greatly.
I had my first Guinness on tap in a small inn in Harwich, UK. Thought I was drinking the elixir of the gods.
I've tried the various methods bars try to serve Guinness here and they just don't cut it. Beer, even Guinness draught, is carbonated. It if isn't carbonated, it isn't beer.
I drink Miller Lite and Coors lite from a can. Any good beer gets a glass. My IPA's generally get a pilsner glass, I think that is what you call them. Get a big enough glass to hold the entire beer, gotta have a little head too. It smells soooo good.
Left Hand is right down the road from me. I love their Sawtooth Ale.How can you not like nitro beers? So creamy! Best I've had is Left Hand Brewing Milk Stout Nitro.
Some of my favorite beers in different styles:
IPA- Stone IPA, Latitude 48 IPA(2013 version with Mosaic hops) from Sam Adams, Terrapin's Hopsecutioner, Dogfish 60, Sierra Nevada Torpedo, Sierra Nevada Ruthless Rye
Stout-Left Hand Milk Stout Nitro, Stone Imperial Russian Stout, Sweetwater Happy Ending, Sam Adams Cream Stout
Porter- Sweetwater Exodus Porter
Wheat- Sweetwater Blue, Purple Haze from Abita
Lager- Sam Adams Boston Lager, Sam Adams Double Agent IPL(India Pale Lager), Yuengling Amber
Pale Ale- Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Sweetwater 420 Pale Ale, Terrapin Rye Pale Ale
Other beers I enjoy that I don't really fit a broad kind of style- Raison D'etre from Dogfish, Arrogant Bastard from Stone, 1554 from New Belgium, New Belgium Fat Tire
And that's just off the top of my head, and I haven't been drinking long :lol:
IPA's around 6-7% ABV should get a pint glass, but anything above that should really get a tulip glass, or something similar. Releases the aroma in a better way.
I'll bet it does. Next time I'm in Chicago, I'll make it a point to get there.Here in Chicago, Fado's imports their Guinness directly from the brewery and it makes a difference.
The USA is leading the charge on the craft beer revolution. Personally, I'm aquiring a taste for hops which I never really understood before. In Florida the most sought after beer seems to be made by Cigar City Brewing in Tampa. Other limited quantity beers which have quite a following are Hopslam by Bells, Piney the Elder and most of what is made by Stone Brewing in California.
Always pour beer into a glass, I NEVER drink it from the bottle. You're missing out on a lot if you don't. It releases the carbonation from the beer, so you'll be able to drink more without it upsetting your stomach. Plus the biggest part is it releases the aroma of the beer, which enhances the flavor greatly.
IPA's around 6-7% ABV should get a pint glass, but anything above that should really get a tulip glass, or something similar. Releases the aroma in a better way.
Hops are a hugely important ingredient to good beer, which is in part to what Your Star is referring w/r to putting your beer in a glass, and even in the appropriately shaped glass - to get the aroma out so it can be best appreciated.I am pretty manly, but I just aint sure about a "tulip' glass. :lamo I do have a couple of them though. All this beer talk I think I will go have and put one to use. I have a beer, I think it is taproom 21 or something like that at home in my firdge. Its life expetcency is getting shorter.
I am pretty manly, but I just aint sure about a "tulip' glass. :lamo I do have a couple of them though. All this beer talk I think I will go have and put one to use. I have a beer, I think it is taproom 21 or something like that at home in my firdge. Its life expetcency is getting shorter.
I've had bars serve the draught version and what can I say - it's invariably been flat. .
I'll bet it does. Next time I'm in Chicago, I'll make it a point to get there.
I have a theory... some bar ordered a keg from Guinness and it shipped on a slow boat and lost all its carbonation during the trip. The patrons who drank it thought that must have been normal, and it being Guinness, assumed it as a standard and acquired a taste for flat beer; the rest is nitrogenation history.
Hops are a hugely important ingredient to good beer, which is in part to what Your Star is referring w/r to putting your beer in a glass, and even in the appropriately shaped glass - to get the aroma out so it can be best appreciated.
I can tell a true German lager by the aroma of hops used. It's something so distinctive and unique - very very rare to find that here in America.
The worst Guinness I've ever had was warm Extra Stout directly out of a bottle in Ireland when I was like 16. Brutal, brutal ****.
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