THere is nothing different about the beer served in Ireland.
Oh, except the price. it's Dublin, so it's 9 fucking dollars a fucking pint for the same motherfucking bland-ass beer that you $4-5 over here.
lol, Guinness in Ireland, as if that matters.
You may or may not like this method, but someone showed me a technique for pouring a pint from one of the Draught Cans that I've stuck with because I think it works perfectly. It's obviously easier to show someone how to do this than describe it, but hopefully you get the idea...
Open the can, and turn your pint glass upside-down and place it over the open can. You want the can to be fully "sheathed" in the pint glass (so if you let go of the glass, it just sits upside-down over the open can).
Grab hold of the pint glass with one hand, and the bottom of the can with the other.
Flip them completely over simultaneously (so the glass is now right-side up and the can is completely upside-down). At this point beer will obviously start pouring from the can into the glass. I recommend that you place the glass on the counter or a table when you flip it over and don't try to hold it.
Lift the can up as the beer fills the glass so that the open "top" of the can is as close to the beer in the glass as possible. Keep the can vertical...don't tip the glass or the can or anything. Just lift the can straight up at the same rate as the beer is filling the glass.
If you do this correctly, you end up with a nice head and it doesn't overflow the pint glass. Obviously you should wait a little while for the beer to settle and form the proper head before you drink it.
Guiness foreign extra stout is their best beer ever.
Is there a nitro-widget in that? For some reason I don't remember that to be the case, and I've never come across it on tap.
sorry i am a Guiness hater... except for the color, its a thin beer with little anything except for bubbles. Admittedly, I'm a hophead and not a big fan of stouts or porters. Guiness however does even less for me than the average craft beer in these categories.
Forget the Guiness and try some of these English ales:
Old Peculier
Speckled Hen
Coniston's Blue Bird XB
Fuller's London Pride
Youngs' Double Chocolate Stout
I can't stand FUllers and Young's, but I like Old Peculiar, sometimes speckled Hen.
Porters are my favorite over all, but it can be hard to find a good one. I really like Baltic style Porters, but they are even rarer.
Actually, Sam Adams makes a damn awesome Honey Porter as a seasonal, not sure which season, and whether or not it's every year, but that was the last beer of their's that I liked.
They used to have a widget in them like the cans, but they dropped it at some point. It still tastes good.
The extra stout got a little thin when they started making it in Canada. I haven't had it in years, so I don't know if they've improved or not. That was a disappointing change when it happened :^(
hmm, now granted when I buy Guinness, its almost exclusively in can form, but when I buy bottles its always the draught - the one time I had extra stout I was extremely disappointined. And I can't remember ever having a bottle of draught that didn't have the widget.
Only if you'd had it on tap, served two-part properly, and that bar actually uses all the recommended serving parameters (air mix, temps, etc). If so, it's a delicious beer, and I cannot even imagine what is different about the Irish-only brew. If the bar has it wrong, ugh, I don't order another there ever again.
The cans, when you get the pour right (you can botch it), can produce a very tasty beer. Not quite as good as a properly served pint at a bar/pub, but still far better than bad Guinness by a long mile.