Ready to try Guiness<sp>

After being a crap beer drinker and finding joys of differant brews out there, I am still very fond of Pale Ale, also Baynard Trout Slayer Ale.

I have seen Guiness on many peoples Top 10 beer lists. Well I'm ready to try it. But also somethings I have heard make me slightly hesitant.

I know it is a STOUT, which from my limited knowledge is a dark, dare I say thick beer, which would really be a neat taste I hope. But then the questions...

1) Is Guiness the type of beer or a label name such as Budwieser is American Cheap Lager. I have seen Guiness at my local beer buying spot and want to know I am getting the right product.

2) It comes in bottles and in slightly differant cans, I heard are nitrous filled or something close to that. Question, How do I drink once I find, is drink by drink out the bottle the right way, or with the differant technique it is "packaged" in going to change that?

Thanks the the read and the help.

Chris in MT

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fallnwlf
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Stay away from the Guinness Extra Stout. It's brewed in Canada now and to say it's a mere shadow of its former self(brewed in Ireland) would be giving it a compliment. The nitro stuff is way too smooth read=weakly flavoured. You want a good dry stout from our region(I'm in Wy) try Zonker Stout from Snake River.

Best regards, Bill

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Bill Becker

Which pale ale? It's a style, so there are many, many examples, covering a huge range of tastes.

Actually, Guinness isn't very thick at all. Many stouts are, many stouts are not. I had the same thoughts when I was first starting off on good beer, that dark = thick. But not necessarily so.

But, dark beers do give you a whole new dimension of flavors that you don't get in many others.

It's a brand. The style is stout. There are subdivisions within stout; Guinness on draught, in cans and in the new pub draught bottles or whatever they're called, is a dry stout.

Just stay away from the bottled Guinness Extra Stout. Used to be a great beer. It's absolute crap now that it's being contract-brewed by Labbatt.

There's a widget in there that shoots a charge of nitrogen (not nitrous - that would be a bit risky) when the can's open. The new-style bottles are supposed to do that too.

Pour it into a glass. You should do that with any beer under most circumstances, anyway. Drinking out of the bottle or can doesn't allow as much of the aromatics to escape, and taste is actually much more a matter of smell than anything else.

-Steve

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Steve Jackson

Well I'd say those people were crazy for putting it in such a list! It would barely make my top 200.

thick maybe...in that it has a bit more body than any cheap American Lager you've probably drank, but don't let anyone convince you its a strong, potent or bold example of a beer. (not that there's anything wrong with not being strong or bold, its just that there's these beer myths out there, where random drunks will tell you that Guinness is the strongest beer in the world or some such nonsense)

No, you should already know the answer to this: you already said its a "stout". Stout is a type of beer. Guinness is indeed the brand.

Unless someone has bootlegged some Guinness empties and refilled them with some homebrew dry stout. (wouldn't that be a nice surprise!)

Not nitrous, as in nitrous oxide, but beer gas containg CO2 and Nitrogen. The cans and the new bottles are "nitro'd" as we call it (and are labelled as Guinness Draught). As is draught guinness from a keg. The nitro bottles are designed to be drunk from, but you're sorta missing out. Pour it somewhat gently into a pint glass. Or go to an Irish bar and order a pint. The non-nitro'd bottles (Guinness Extra Stout) are from Canada (check the label). Don't bother with them.

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isn't that technically incorrect? I thought the nitrogen was already dissolved into the beer and the widget works like the restrictor disk in a stout faucet, to shear the nitrogen out of solution to create the famous head?

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May very well be the case. I've never cared enough to really pay attention to precisely how it works.

-Steve

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Steve Jackson

Yes, you're correct.

-- Joel Plutchak Boneyard Union of Zymurgical Zealots

"Resorting to personal harassment is a tactic of desperation."

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