$h1t London Guinness

The guinness in the walkabout on the embankment during one of the boro games in there was possibly the worst pint I've ever had. Although all the draught in that place was undrinkable.

My old local, Skehans in SE London, did a great pint of guinness.
 
Had some lovely pints in an irish pub in Camden Lock watching a Boro game with a load of ex pat Brazilians.
one bar was one Irish rugby game rugby , the other had another ( irish) rugby game at one end and the Boro game at the other. Can't for the life of me remember the name but my Daughter assured me it was known as a good Guinness and Boro pub..
managed to have a few STRONG Guinness's in Dr Cave' s Beach Jamaica just before Covid hit last year.
Apparently The Kingston Guinness brewery makes a stronger version of the "Irish wine".
"White man too stress" as the old guy kept muttering as he served me my first.🇯🇲
 
I only drink Guinness when I'm having a pint. As capybara says it tastes the same wherever you drink it. The Irish tourist board have done a very good job of fooling people into thinking it tastes better in Ireland.
The only different stuff is the Nigerian Guinness. It's sold bottled in some places in London. It's stronger and it's horrible.
 
Working in Cameroon in the early 80's we got friendly with the Irish lads running the Guiness brewey out there...Guiness also brewed Harp lager,(can you still get it?) but out there it was called Golden Harp....
I dont know what they put in it but it blew yer head off after a few,of which I can attest over a couple of years :oops:
 
There's an Irish pub in Stoke Newington (the name of which escapes me) that does a great pint of Guinness.

Until I moved to deptford I had never tried Nigerian Guinness. Safe to say it's quite moreish.
 
I visited Dublin in 2010. I was a big Guinness drinker at the time. I didn't go there expecting it be of a superior quality but I was surprised at the difference. It was creamier, smoother and just went down so much easier. Maybe I just wasn't drinking it at the right places in England.
 
Working in Cameroon in the early 80's we got friendly with the Irish lads running the Guiness brewey out there...Guiness also brewed Harp lager,(can you still get it?) but out there it was called Golden Harp....
I dont know what they put in it but it blew yer head off after a few,of which I can attest over a couple of years :oops:
Still get harp on draught in some decent Irish bars in NY, but not seen it over here in that format or canned for many years
 
Had a couple of nice pints of Guinness in Covent Garden. It's the difference in price gets me. Couple of years ago had a Guinness a pub in West Bay after a walk £4.90. A week later I was in the Cobblestones in Bridgewater for a gig. £3.30 and a far better pint.
 
There's an Irish pub in Stoke Newington (the name of which escapes me) that does a great pint of Guinness.

Until I moved to deptford I had never tried Nigerian Guinness. Safe to say it's quite moreish.
Are you talking about the auld shillelagh in Stoke Newington?
 
Yes I am. Really good pub actually. We had friends who lived round in there and have camped out many Bank Holidays in their beer garden
 
Working in Cameroon in the early 80's we got friendly with the Irish lads running the Guiness brewey out there...Guiness also brewed Harp lager,(can you still get it?) but out there it was called Golden Harp....
I dont know what they put in it but it blew yer head off after a few,of which I can attest over a couple of years :oops:
Guinness extra foreign stout is stronger around 7.5% brewed in Nigeria I think, don't think they ever brewed in Cameroon?
 
I remember the Irish boys were heavily involved in the local rugby team and they asked us if we could get a team together to play their team, we did but oh dear.......it was like the current French side playing the Star and garter....there was a lot of vomit 🤣
 
As Muttley and Capy said, it's all about presentation.
As long as the cellar work is up to scratch, so should be the beer. In Ireland they'll pull two thirds of the pint and go and serve someone else, and come back five minutes later to top it up. It's settled by then.
Not so much seen that In the UK.
Maybe it's that.
 
As Muttley and Capy said, it's all about presentation.
As long as the cellar work is up to scratch, so should be the beer. In Ireland they'll pull two thirds of the pint and go and serve someone else, and come back five minutes later to top it up. It's settled by then.
Not so much seen that In the UK.
Maybe it's that.
It is absolutely that.

That is the point of the Instagram account I was referring to which I find quite humorous.
 
This is where we get into bar staff competency territory. I've never been to Ireland but they say the bar staff there are competent and that it is considered a proper profession.

Here, they stick anyone behind a bar these days with no training whatsoever apart from how to operate the till. Forty years ago you had good bar staff who could serve more than one person at a time, adding up the bill in their head while also keeping an eye on who was arriving at the bar so that everyone was served in the right order. That was me that was.

And it's not just the staff, it's also the customers. How often do you go into a pub, and you are next to be served, and the person who is being served says, "Three pints of bitter please" - three pints of bitter arrive - "and a pint of lager" - a pint of lager arrives - "and a gin and tonic" - a gin and tonic arrives - "and, finally, a pint of Guinness ..."
 
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This is where we get into bar staff competency territory. I've never been to Ireland but they say the bar staff there are competent and that it is considered a proper profession.

Here, they stick anyone behind a bar these days with no training whatsoever apart from how to operate the till. Forty years ago you had good bar staff who could serve more than one person at a time, adding up the bill in their head while also keeping an eye on who was arriving at the bar so that everyone was served in the right order. That was me that was.
This is what a friend of mine (from Northern Ireland) used to tell me every time we encountered poor bar staff (which was often).

He was apalled by how bad bar staff could be over here.
 
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