<mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net> wrote:
> John W. <worthj1970@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 5, 8:21?am, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
>>> 
>>> Not with Guiness, certainly...
>>> 
>>> Mike- Hide quoted text -
>>> 
>> I think you must have gotten some bad Guiness in your day. While I
>> don't particularly like the company and the way they have tended to
>> squash competition, I also don't think they really needed to because
>> they make a very yummy bear that is just heavy enough. I have many
>> fond memories of drinking Guiness with friends; I also have many fond
>> holes in my memory of drinking Guiness with friends.
> 
> Guiness is the perfect looking beer; just no flavor to it.
> 
> Mike

Agree — and no offense to anyone/YMMV, but IMHYankO, Guiness is probably
more about being an Anglo-Irish traditional social-lubricant facilitator
"down the pub" and one with a long history of course (its "blandness" was
likely suited ti having a recipe that emphasized preservation on long
colonial-era voyages) than actually being a world-class stellar beer,
especially if one compares it to the plethora of great brew on the market
worldwide these days — but I will give Guiness credit for having a
nomihodai bar at the end of their museum tour in Dublin (this was way back
in 1990, dunno if it's the same nowadays), whereas the Heineken tour in
Amsterdam in that era was limited to a glass or two (cheap Dutch? though
the Heineken admission fee went to UNICEF or some such charity fund)...
-- 
Peace, Steve