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Green Guinness

Efour2 said:
Ive had green guiness before courtesy of my local doing a stupid St Patrik's day type thing.

Lots of food colouring in it i assumed? So they brew this stuff green sometimes aswell ?? or am i looking like a complete tool :p
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nah you're not mad, i've had it too ;)

Guinness is a great Irish institution which is often patriotically coloured green on St Patrick's Day. It is a beverage of a taste that is hard to describe but easy to love. Two or three pints make one very amicable and the world begins to look like a much nicer place, seven or eight is a happy medium, whilst entering into double figures can lead to encounters with local law enforcement agents and charges of breach of the peace.
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:p

Seems the red is made from lightly roasted barley (as already mentioned) and will go on trial at pubs in the UK over the next few months.

But there are no plans yet to put Guinness Red into cans or bottles for sale in shops :(
 
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my local landlord gave me some north star guinness?? or something?? Actually quite nice (hate normal guinness) so not sure if thats what you mean? didnt look overly green, but it was dark...
 
Pug said:
my local landlord gave me some north star Guinness?? or something?? Actually quite nice (hate normal Guinness) so not sure if thats what you mean? didnt look overly green, but it was dark...
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Every Six months or so Guinness release a new brew of Guinness as part of their Brew-house series over here. North Star is the latest one, others have been "Toucan Brew" and "Brew 39".

They are all slightly different blends of normal Guinness (and inferior in my opinion)


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Guinnes Red has been around for a while although I haven't seen it in ages, used to buy it around ten years ago from an excellent off licence in Preston, think it was a 250 or 330 ml bottle - quite small anyway, about the same size as a bottle of Guinness Export and had a green label.

Oh and it was a beer rather than a stout!
 
yer_averagejoe said:
guiness tastes like burnt.
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Could that be something to do with the roasting of the hops :rolleyes: Its supposed to be like that :p ... when i was young (ie 10) and my dad had the occasional pint, i used to try it and thought it tasted really burnt... but about 7 years later when i actually drank it myself, it didnt taste nearly as severe IMO :)
 
This is wrong on so many levels............

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jellybeard999 said:
Could that be something to do with the roasting of the hops :rolleyes: Its supposed to be like that :p ... when i was young (ie 10) and my dad had the occasional pint, i used to try it and thought it tasted really burnt... but about 7 years later when i actually drank it myself, it didnt taste nearly as severe IMO :)
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yeah it didnt stop me drinking 4 pints of it to get a hat...
 
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