Lá fhéile Pádraig sona dhuit!
There, now that I’ve got my fake Irish pretensions out of the way, let’s get on to the real business. (I am one eighth Irish, don’t ya know.) St. Patrick’s Day, one of my favourite holidays; Guinness Stout, one of my favourite beers! Who knew that the Irish were actually good at a few things? Not several hundred years worth of English pigs it would seem!
Excuse me while I cue up the Pogues version of Young Ned Of The Hill…
Okay, so maybe Cromwell isn’t the best reason to continue hating the English. After all, English types like me despise the bugger too! But I digress.
Guinness. That lovely, charming, black beer, that people either seem to love or hate. Myself I’m not sure how you could hate it, but so be it. Full, deep, rich, creamy, fulfilling, and I haven’t even started talking about how it tastes yet! Just you wait.. or maybe I should just get on with the tasting notes section of this blog post? Yes? Okay.
Appearance: thick creamy head, nice and black
Nose: roast malt, hint of coffee
Palate: smooth and creamy, hint of chocolate, deliciously balanced
Finish: initially pleasant hazelnut cream, followed by a subtle lingering roast coffee flavour
Overall: this beer defies logic in how perfect it is. Sometimes I feel like no two pints of Guinness are alike in taste, and yet every one is so damn good. Hard to convey in words how good it really is!
Rating: 5/5 Fucking Excellent
P.S. Jameson whiskey is good too!!!
P.P.S. So is James Joyce! Go read his stuff 🙂
P.P.P.S. No St. Patrick’s Day ambiance would be complete without a thought for a lass. In this case, my darling girl Tash, who is hundreds of miles away from me, whilst I am stuck on this rock! ❤
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Wow, you get right into it when you’re in your cups, or is ‘three sheets to the wind’ more appropriate, given your current location? While I have no quarrel with your kind words about Guinness, I have to question its getting a higher rating than Nelson’s Blackheart Stout. Not suggesting you should lower the one, but rather you ought to raise the other. I come to this topic upon arriving home from a pint of Fucking Excellent Murphy’s at the pub. ( & Backhand completes my FE4 of stout! )
At any rate, Happy St. Paddy’s, and Spoon it on!
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Haha, but surprisingly I’m not actually ‘three sheets to the wind’! I wrote this while I was sober, believe it or not! As for the BlackHeart Stout, I dunno what to say… I guess it doesn’t mean as much to me, having been gone for most of my drinking years? Murphy’s on the other hand deserves a strong FE!
Spoon it on!
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I’m not arguing for what the Blackheart ‘means’, but for what it IS! However, this should really be discussed verbally, at high volume, over a mug of the black stuff, with multiple assenting, dissenting, and randomly off topic voices all thrown into the mix. We’ll book an appointment for next autumn!
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Well, to be fair, you were present at the BlackHeart review, and you didn’t push too hard for FE over Excellent…
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FE4 of stout!Couldn’t agree more with the Grebbled one (betcha that hurts).Also,as a voice well practiced in random off topics,I’d like to add…Puggles are way cooler than Labradoodles.Just saying…
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I’d like to add that I finally listened to Unleashed In The East, and it is very good!
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Amen,Brother!
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