Guinness in Dublin City Centre

irish_goat

In theory they could change the chiller temperature, but the Diageo rep will check the beer temperature when they are cleaning the lines and just readjust it if it was outside their parameters.

breezy1985

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122621119#Comment_122621119

It's really just the glass.

Unless the barman actually lets it overflow there is not much he can do.

All that stuff about lines are hangovers from older times. If by keg movement you mean actually moving of the keg then that is a long gone problem.

Geuze

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122636539#Comment_122636539

Is this service provided for free by Diageo in respect of the dispensing equipment used to serve their products?

irish_goat

Yeah, it's factored into the price of the keg essentially. In Britain pubs will all have to clean the lines themselves, but the breweries didn't trust publicans in Ireland, hence why they took it upon themselves to do it.

Lewis_Benson

Nevermind Guinness, we need more good cask ales in pubs here.

A pint of Guinness is good, but you can't bate a proper pulled ale from a cask.

the beer revolu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122641733#Comment_122641733

Cask ale almost because a thing in Ireland 10 years ago but seems to have died away again.

Witherspoons do cask ales.

Black Sheep

Cask definitely feels like it's effectively gone for the forseeable.

There was a point where, on a night out, you could have a few pints of cask in Against the Grain, then mosey down to the Palace and have some Dungarvan on cask, and then finish the night drinking cask pints of TSB in the Porterhouse.

BeerNut

Five pubs in Dublin city centre with a regular cask offering isn't bad going. It's there for anyone who wants it.

Black Sheep

I didn't realise there were still 5. Who are they?

BeerNut

The Silver Penny, Keavan's Port, The South Strand, The Porterhouse and JR Mahon's.

Black Sheep

Ah yes.. Wetherspoons doing the heavy lifting there. I do tend to order cask if I stop into The Silver Penny.

Lewis_Benson

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122644563#Comment_122644563

I remember seeing a pump at the end of the bar in the Oslo years ago, I don't think it was even hooked up.