For the love of St Patrick! Irish big day is marred by online pictures of TERRIBLE pints of Guinness
- Irate Guinness fans have been sharing pictures of poor pints of plain online
- The Sh*t London Guinness Group has been highlighting miserable pints of porter
- Máirtín Ó Corrigáin said ‘Jesus, these pints have bigger heads than influencers’
Guinness fans have been sharing appalling pints of Guinness which have been served today on St Patrick’s Day.
The porter, brewed in St James’s Gate in Dublin, was served in the most inappropriate manner, with some pints in incorrect glasses or the wrong-sized head.
The iconic drink should be black with a creamy white head but rogue bar staff have been not following the guidelines mandated for the serving of their product.
Guinness fans have been sharing incredibly poorly paid pints of porter on the internet
Among the travesties shared on St Patrick’s day is this pint – which would have been perfect – until someone put green food colouring in it
This pint has a deserved place on the Sh*t London Guinness page as it’s head is far too small, presumably because there was not enough nitrogen used in the pour
These two pints are not how Arthur J Guinness intended them to be poured
Actor John C Reilly, pictured in the Guinness Store House in Dublin tasted a pint ahead of today’s St Patrick’s Day celebration with a perfectly poured pint of plain
Guinness is supposed to be presented following a two part pour, the first of which sees the stout filled to about two-thirds of the glass.
When pouring, the glass should be held to a 45 degree angle to prevent unsightly bubbles ruining the head.
After the drink settles and the head firms up, the bar worker pushes the tap forward, allowing a slower pour to complete the pint.
A good bar worker can leave the head slightly proud of the glass, making it a very photographical pint.
Unfortunately, across London, many bar staff do not take pride in their presentation of the Dublin porter, leaving thirsty aficionados outraged.
Once again there was a photograph of a pint with a ridiculously large head shared online
Not one of these pints has been poured in the correct glass which means the drinks look strange
The shape of this San Miguel glass is perfect for lager, but not for a stout
Magners may be made in Tipperary, but that’s a long way from St James’s Gate in Dublin
Guinness in a Fosters glass would be enough to outrage the most temperate of porter drinker
Having the correct glass does not always guarantee a perfectly poured pint as is clearly evidenced here
The member of bar staff who topped up this pint of Guinness might need a revision lesson in what a shamrock looks like
Those two pints of Guinness, containing water from the Wicklow mountains and yeast which is kept under lock and key at St James’s Gate, look terribly sad and will taste bad
Examples of poor pints have been shared on the hugely popular online group S**t London Guinness.
The group has 195,000 followers on Instagram and a further 65,000 fains on Twitter.
A group of aggrieved drinkers now names and shame the worst culprits via a hugely popular online group, S**t London Guinness.
It has 195,000 followers on Instagram and a further 65,000 on Twitter.
Examples shared over St Patrick’s Day included a pint without a head – to another which was served in a Corona glass.
People reacting on Twitter were outraged.
One person photographed a Guinness which had been smuggled out of a bar in a water bottle
One person complained that this pint of porter cost them £7 – almost £3 more expensive than in most Irish bars in the city
Buddy Brophy raged: ‘Did they throw that into the glass from the other side of the pub?’
Máirtín Ó Corrigáin blasted: ‘Jesus.
‘Some of these pints have bigger heads than influencers.’
Colin Brown added: ‘It’s about time Guinness started revoking selling licences.’
S**t London Guinness also shared a snap of a plastic bottle filled with Guinness, posted during lockdown.
They added: ‘Symbol of a dark time. a bit like the vuvuzelas at the 2010 World Cup. best forgotten about.’
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