>>>>>>Enjoy a Guinness or two. :)
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>>>>>The worst beer I ever tried ... < gd&r >
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>>>>Whoah! You must have tried Guiness Stout. Try Guiness Draught it is much lighter and easier to drink. I had the same opinon till I realized there was a difference... which isn't all that apparent.
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>>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness#Varieties
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>>>Guinness Extra Stout is very bitter and something that I do not enjoy! It comes in a six pack of small bottles. The Draught comes in a four pack of cans or six pack of bottles. The Draught from a keg is very tasty and for some reason a pint of Guinness from a Pub in Ireland is even better! :)
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>>Good man! I tend not to drink beer from kegs unless I'm at a brew pub that knows what they are doing. Normal pubs and restaurants don't seem to maintain the system well and I get headaches and a stuff nose. One of our brew pubs in Vancouver does a Guinness draught clone... can't tell the difference.
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>The Irish and British pubs areound here do a great job. You have to keep Guinness at the right temperature.
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>Some stores (Safeway for example) sell Guinness draught in the cans and bottles and keep them at room temperature. You open the container and - yuck! No head on the brew and it has gone bad.

Er, you could chill it a bit first!

Over here now most pubs have 2 draughts of Guinness: the normal and an extra cold one. It bugs me that you can't just ask for a guinness now, cos the bartender alwqays asks you to stipulate which, so you have to say "normal Guinness". It's a bit like the "Forward-slash" thing with me: Guinness should be default and "cold Guinness" if you've a mental problem. Anyway, I don't like the stuff, but I like Murphy's and Beamish black stouts strangely enough; they're not as bitter-metalic tasting.