Guinness

[Drunk Monk]

Yes, it totally deserves it's own thread here.

I just had some of the 250 anniversary limited edition Guinness. It's like $2 more per sixer. It tasted like Greg had already been there...twice.

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[Greg_phpbb3_import1]

As part of the tour, you get to learn to pull your own pint, send emails to friends, and pee in one of the vats. Enjoy!

[thatguy]

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[Drunk Monk]

This is the first Guinness product that I'm not thrilled about. The silver label reminds me too much of the 'silver bullet'. The flavor just isn't right. Why even bother when there's Guinness and Smithwicks?

BTW, my Guinness hat withe the bottle opener in the lid broke. Couldn't even make it through one Furthur run. Major bummer.

[Drunk Monk]

...with real Irish folk. There was an Irish band. Lots of potatoes. I even got to help someone break into their car because he locked the keys in it. That's always fun. It was lovely.

Lots of Guinness, Smithwicks and Jameson. This Monday is hateful. :drinkers:

[Drunk Monk]

You'd think I'd care but I'm pescatarian so I'm fine with fish guts in my stout.

Guinness stout plans a vegan brew in 2016
November 02 NEW YORK
To make Guinness acceptable to vegetarian and vegan drinkers, the Irish brewer is changing the way it produces the popular creamy dark stout by eliminating fish bladder.
Specifically, Guinness plans to swap isinglass, a gelatin made from fish bladders used to filter yeast particles from the finished product, with an animal-free method late next year.
"Isinglass has been used widely within the brewing industry as a means of filtration for decades," the company said in a statement. "However, because of its use we could not label Guinness as suitable for vegetarians and have been looking for an alternative solution for some time."
The beer's listed ingredients -- barley, hops, yeast and water -- make it sound herbivorous. But traces of fish bladder can wind up in the finished product.
The company did not give details about how it will replace isinglass. In previous statements, Guinness has said it was searching for a method that is "as effective or as environmentally friendly...whilst maintaining the quality of the liquid."
Guinness beer is also brewed at locations in 49 countries, but the company said the new filtration method will only be implemented at its flagship brewery in Ireland.
Introducing a vegetarian-friendly product could open up Guinness's sales to a new market as competition from craft breweries has squeezed the beer industry. Guinness parent company Diageo (DEO) cited microbrewery competition as a reason Guinness's draught sales weakened in 2015.
Popular canned beers -- including most Anheuser-Busch, Heineken and Miller products -- have been deemed vegetarian friendly by Barnivore.com, which tracks animal ingredients in alcohol.

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[Drunk Monk]

Tue Jan 31, 2017 | 11:29am EST
Diageo to make new Guinness beers for U.S. market

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A signage is seen on the outside of Diageo offices in west London October 10, 2008. REUTERS/Toby Melville

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Diageo (DGE.L) plans to open a new Guinness brewery in the U.S. state of Maryland where it will make new Guinness beers for the U.S. market, the company said in a statement on Tuesday.

The new brewery will include a visitors' center and a packaging and warehousing operation. It will be based at the company's existing facility in Relay, Maryland, bringing the total investment in Relay to $50 million.

The traditional Guinness stout will continue to be made in Dublin, Diageo said.


(Reporting by Martinne Geller. Editing by Jane Merriman)

Now they're just taunting me...

[Greg]

It won't be the same without the Wexford water.

At least tell yourself that.

I saw that article, too, and thought better of sending it to you.

[Drunk Monk]

100-Year-Old Woman Says a Daily Guinness Is the Secret to Her Longevity
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She began drinking the Irish stout as a way to get extra iron.
[url=https://www.foodandwine.com/contributors/mike-pomranz]MIKE POMRANZ 
May 11, 2018
Back in the 1920s, the beer brand Guinness had a slogan that probably wouldn’t fly today: “Guinness Is Good for You” advertisements openly exclaimed. Though openly touting the health benefits of beer doesn’t happen as often as it used to, a 100-year-old English woman—who lived through the 1920s, by the way—still prescribes to that old mantra. She credits her longevity to drinking a Guinness every day since her 30s. That about 70 years of Guinness. Or to do the math, over 25,000 beers!

Doris Olive Netting of Plymouth, England, is so committed to Guinness that she even themed her 100th birthday party after the well-known Irish stout, decorating her nursing home with things like branded balloons and a life-sized Guinness toucan logo. If you didn’t quite catch that, yes, Netting hasn’t let living in a care home slow down her beer habit. “She refuses to go a day without drinking it,” the centenarian’s 37-year-old granddaughter Tammy told the Independent.

Apparently, Netting began drinking Guinness after seeing one of those aforementioned Guinness ads touting the beer’s iron content. “After the war there was a big marketing campaign to buy Guinness—drink Guinness to get your iron—following on from the ration years. So Olive did just that: a glass [mini bottle] of Guinness a day for the rest of her life,” Tammy further explained. “She reckons that's why she's lived for as long as she has, because of the iron intake through Guinness. She's doing really well. She's remarkable.”

Like all Brits who reach 100 years of age are eligible for, Netting also had the honor of receiving a telegram from the Queen; however, she might have been more impressed with another well-wisher. After hearing of her devotion to their brews, Guinness sent her a personalized gift basket to mark the occasion. Hopefully, it contained at least a few bottles of Guinness, though knowing Olive as we now do, they won’t last long.

Doris is my hero.    

[Drunk Monk]

What blasphemic abomination is this?

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The Instagram-worthy beer turns the traditional color palette of a stout upside down.
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Guinness is one of the most iconic beers in the world: a brew that is synonymous with Ireland and, importantly, a mainstream dark stout amongst a sea of yellow lagers. Guinness will tell you that pouring the beer requires a precise technique to get the perfect foamy white head resting atop the black brew. But some cheeky British brewers had a different idea: Could they brew a stout with a foamy black head resting atop a milky white brew? And thus, a “reverse Guinness” was born.
White or albino stouts—beers that are pale in color but still attempt to taste like a classic stout—are nothing new, but though the taste of these beers is deceiving, the appearance is pretty typical: They usually just look like your average pale ale. But Sue Hayward and Gazza Prescott—the duo behind the Liverpool-based beer brand Team Toxic—had an idea to truly turn the idea of a stout on its head.
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“I got fed up with seeing releases of white stouts that were, well, gold or pales,” Hayward told me via email. “I've never seen a white stout that's white! From there I decided I needed to make it an actual reverse of the look of a Guinness—purely as it's the archetypal stout in appearance and very iconic.”
The result is the newly released Team Toxic Sinistral White Stout. And if you think pouring a Guinness properly is hard, well, brewing the perfect “reverse Guinness” proved far more difficult. “That was 5 years ago,” Hayward said of her initial idea, “and it's taken this long to be happy with the color of it. We are still tweaking the dispense of the head.”


Speaking of that impressive black head, Hayward wouldn't reveal any secrets on how the team pulls it off—other than clarifying that both the beer and the head are vegan and vegetarian. (No, it's not squid ink!) However, she did say that, beyond its all-important color, the odd foam brings a touch of something else to the table. “It does have a subtle Caramac flavor to complement the stout flavors.” (For us Yanks, Caramac is a caramel-flavored British candy bar brand now owned by Nestle.)
And speaking of flavors, [url=https://www.unilad.co.uk/food/brewery-invents-reverse-guinness/amp/]talking to the U.K. site Unilad, Hayward described the beer as “rich, cakey and chocolatey—but the most important thing is it tastes unmistakably like beer, which is what we set out to do.” Trying it for yourself, however, will also be extremely tricky. Despite tons of requests, for now, there's only enough Sinistral to fulfill orders for some of Team Toxic's regular pub customers. However, Hayward did tell me that, eventually, she hopes the reverse stout will find its way out to where I live in Sheffield, about 80 miles away. “We just have to fit in time to do it!!” she exclaimed. I guess it took them five years to develop Sinistral; I can wait a few more weeks.

[Greg]

I think calling it a blackhead gives it the right connotation.

[Drunk Monk]

WTH?

GUINNESS 0.0

 OUR BEERS

TASTING NOTES
Aroma: Sweet smelling with a coffee and malty nose.
Flavour: Perfect balance of bitter and sweet with malt and roast characters.
Palate: Smooth, creamy and balanced.
ABV: 0.0% ABV
Appearance: A characteristically dark, ruby coloured liquid.

THE STORY OF GUINNESS® 0.0
Introducing Guinness 0.0. Brewed with our new cold filtration process. This ensures you get the same beautifully smooth taste, perfectly balanced flavour and unique dark colour of Guinness Draught, just without the alcohol.
The latest in 250 years of innovation, Guinness 0.0 is specially brewed to retain the characteristic flavours which make Guinness Draught our most popular beer.
The brewing process starts just as it always has, but with 0.0 the alcohol is gently removed through a cold filtration method. This helps to preserve its natural flavour, ensuring that the all important sweetness of the malt, the bitterness of the hops and the unique Guinness Roasted Barley flavours are all perfectly balanced.
The launch of Guinness 0.0 in pubs around Ireland will be made possible thanks to another world-first innovation – GUINNESS MICRODRAUGHT. As Non-alcoholic beers such as Guinness 0.0 cannot be poured via traditional beer lines and keg systems in pubs, this new cutting-edge technology finally makes it possible!
As we look to the past to help invent the future, our brewers have drawn inspiration from the recipe perfected in 1959. So that now you can savour all of those classic flavours with none of the alcohol.
Guinness 0.0 will be available from mid-July in pubs and bars, and at home from the end of August.

Guinness doesn't have that much alcohol to begin with. Where's the damn carb free Guinness? That's what I crave...