Guinness, yechhhhhh!!!! - Page 5

dunleav1 · 03-18-2010, 05:39 AM

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Originally Posted by bierhaus15

Eh, this has been beaten to death a million times, but in my humble opinion there is nothing wrong with drinking Guinness. It may be the bottled water of the dry stout world but at least its not some pissy crap like Bud. Now if we were talking about a real Irish stout like BEAMISH...

Protestant stout.

MrInternet · 03-18-2010, 05:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Beeropolis

I still enjoy Guinness in the states. I'm just saying that it tastes more like homebrew in Ireland.

Ah, so it's passable, yet people are far prouder of it than they have reason to be?

Guinness rocks. It's a classic representative of the style.

bierhaus15 · 03-18-2010, 06:17 AM

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Originally Posted by dunleav1

Protestant stout.

True. Though, I lived a stone's throw away from the brewery for two years. I'm naturally biased.

DavidSteel · 03-18-2010, 07:12 AM

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Originally Posted by NNatic

i enjoy Guinness... just too thin for my liking and lacks flavor. I love robust roasty stouts... MMMMM

tru.dat man. Too watery. If I want watery stuff, I'll drink some BMC or something. I got my own homebrew for stouts better than guiness if that's what I'm looking for.

**GNBrews** · 03-18-2010, 07:59 AM

It's your fault you don't like Guinness, not Guinness'

**Reno_eNVy** · 03-18-2010, 08:03 AM

I do love me some Guiness Draught... but there's a special place in my heart for Extra Stout. That stuff is absolutely delicious

**Pick** · 03-18-2010, 01:27 PM

The stuff we had was the "grocery store black can" stuff. Might be why it is so terrible. I don't like regular Budweiser, either, FWIW.

**IrregularPulse** · 03-18-2010, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by meddin

I don't buy that...The Guinness in the U.S. is brewed in Dublin. Just like the stuff for Ireland...

From their website:

Good point, I'll believe everything a US marketing agency tells me from here on out

See below. It's common response from those who have actually drank it over seas.

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Originally Posted by Beeropolis

They may say Guinness is Guinness,but if you never had a pint poured in Dublin then you never had true Guinness stout.

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Originally Posted by earwig

Guinness is my favorite beer... I hear it is brewed from LME also.

Why would a brewery of that scale use LME? It would be financial suicide.

I understand maybe it's just the dry stout category I find weak. I've not had once besides Guinness. If I'm drinking a stout, I want it rich. Gonna try a buddy's Home Brewed Dry stout soon. I'll compare that.
Good thing about beer, everything likes what they like. I just think all the hype around Guinness is BS because it's a black beer you get in a bar.

rmolledo · 03-18-2010, 01:53 PM

did you drink the guiness straight from the can? Guiness is mixed with a sour batch of beer so that's where you might get that "chemical flavor".

**IrregularPulse** · 03-18-2010, 01:55 PM

It appears that all the Guiness Draught is supposedly brewed in Dublin. The Extra Stout for the US appears to be brewed in Canada buy the Labatt company.

Another interesting tibit from Wiki (how reliable is wiki, I know.)
"Guinness Stout is brewed under license internationally in several countries, including Nigeria[60][61], the Bahamas, and Indonesia.[62] The unfermented but hopped Guinness wort extract is shipped from Dublin and blended with beer brewed locally."
This could also be where the thought comes from that it's breed from LME.