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Unbelievable scenes across the country. No Guinness flowing in the pubs. Must be the worst day in the history of Guinness. One to tell your grandchildren. ☘ï¸
Strong and stable my arse.
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St Patrick’s Day on 13:55 - Mar 17 with 2568 views
My Mrs just bought me some Guinness cheap from Tesco as the packaging was damaged.The trouble is that its original Guinness cans rather than my usual draught Guinness cans.I haven’t had one of those for years.Does it taste as bad as it used to do?
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St Patrick’s Day on 14:32 - Mar 17 with 2451 views
It is a few years since I drank the original stuff,so i’ll give it a try soon.I have 2 more nights to do and then I’ve got 12 nights off,and they might given a taste test then. Do they have to be chilled like the draught ones do?
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St Patrick’s Day on 14:48 - Mar 17 with 2402 views
My first job after college was at Park Royal. In their hearts, the brewers saw Draught as a passing fad and bottled as the real drink. Still wasn't pasteurised then so bottle conditioned, and they had taste panels to review returned bottles from around the Guinness global empire and identify different wild yeast infections (I failed the test, heartbroken). They reckoned each wild yeast could be linked to a particular process failure that needed fixing.
Bottled was an old people's drink with a medicinal image while draught was young and cool. As bottles spent more time on the shelf and thus were more prone to infection and expensive recall, they just gave up the fight and routinely pasteurised everything, which spoiled the flavour while levelling quality and sent the product into further decline, alas.
When I was a kid visiting on holiday, Ballyporeen's pubs sold more bottles than draught (took the waiting out of wanting too), but all the fridge space that used to belong to big bottles of stout was lost to cider years ago, and you're lucky to get a warm dusty half-pint if you ask for a bottle now.
I never got to understand why old-fashioned canned Guinness tasted so awful.
[Post edited 17 Mar 2021 16:43]
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St Patrick’s Day on 19:08 - Mar 17 with 2104 views
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