19-09-2017, 12:56 PM
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Re: Leisurely Scribbles (part 5)
Originally Posted by
spitfire
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I would be a blessing when Guinness goes "Super".
It's all about the "Head" you know, not about the "Heart".
Yes indeed Spitty the head on a pint of Guinness is very important, every time you take a swaller the head drops slightly and when you reach the end the glass you should have several white rings going all the way down to the bottom, you can actually see how many swallows you took!, just for the record, I was an eight ring man meself.
Above all never use a wet glass when pulling a pint, absolutely sacrilegious in the old days for a barman to do so, it completely ruins the pint.
As for Guinness Super, forget it, in the 1970’s they tried to reach a happy medium between the stout drinkers and the ale/lager drinkers and came up with “Guinness Light”, it really did taste like urine and was a total disaster, a whole new section added on to the famous brewery up in St. James Gate, millions wasted on the advertising campaign too, the slogan was “They said it couldn’t be done” How right they were, they should have listened to “them”… it couldn’t.
Oh course that was in bygone days when barmen we more respected than politicians and priests, get on the wrong side of a barman at your peril, he had the power to put you out of action for a week if you crossed him, the old “depth charger”, a concoction of stale leftover beer from the night before could be prepared to look like the perfect pint, but once it goes down you that was it, you’d be running to the jacks for a week, and if you complained you’d be told “well nobody else complained about the pints” best to be nice to your barmen back then.
I omit saying barmaid because there were no barmaids, except in family owned houses, the union didn’t allow them until the 1980’s or thereabouts.
Having said all that, those days are gone and any eejit is allowed pull you a pint today so I limit my intake to one or two at a sitting.