Two acquaintances of my were Guinness drinkers.
One was a jolly Irish ward sister in a hospital. She used to drink the patients' Guinness, which was prescribed for its iron content, and give them pills instead.
Another was a sales representative, who used to check into the hotel and then go straight to the bar and order a pint of Guinness.
He then went to his roomand changed out of his suit into informal wear. By this time his Guinness, with a nice creamy looking topping was ready to drink
In Ireland, that ten minutes is critical in terms of reproducing the population.
man or woman nips into the pub and orders the Guinness.....back home, strip off and change clothes, and often involves a nice quicky before dressing and heading off to the pub for the evening.....
I had just taken a mouthful of Guinness when a friend said something funny, I tried so hard to not spray the assembled friends with the black stuff that it finally came out of my nose. For the rest of the evening, week and still today 20yrs on they try to make me do it again......
Well i tried it...i dont really like it...been to the dublin factory twice...drank the free stuff anyhow....went to the skybar thingy up top and it was pretty surreal cos everyone there had a guinness hahahaah i managed to blag a cider...in a guinness glads obviously!!! Hehe xx
Stout is ok, not my favourite pint but nice when the mood takes me. Can't say I'd be happy to wait 10 minutes just to get the froth right though. My opinion is that if I have paid for a given volume of booze then it should be all liquid, not air bubbles, anyway.