I thought it was appropriate on St. Patrick's Day for my blog to ask a question that has vexed quite a few of the beer cognoscenti over the years.
Why won't Guinness produce a bottle conditioned of their Foreign Extra/Special Export Stout? It's very good as it is - try it chilled on a hot day in, for instance, St. Tropez (memories!) - but could be even better.
While they are at it they could produce a draught version as well. As I'm asking the earth they could restore bottle conditioning to the standard strength brew as well.
And could they make Draught Guinness actually taste of something other than stewed cardboard?
ReplyDeleteAll bottled Guinness in pubs used to be bottled conditioned, and a good stand-by when the bitter wasn't any good. I think it was discontinued in Britain in the late 1990s.
ReplyDelete"Stewed cardboard" - excellent tasting notes, entirely evocative of "the draught Guinness experience".
In the past I've described Draught Guinness as tasting "vaugely black". It's an expensive pint of nothing.
ReplyDeleteI was captain of my pub's darts team for many years and bottled Guinness was my fall back in all those dreadful Men's clubs with their poxy keg and tank beer.