I drink cans of Guinness "raw" direct from the can. I've been told I'm "some scumbag".

Bingo.

I remember the days when you could only get Guinness in a bottle. It was absolutely disgusting. Looked like coca cola when poured. My old man was a Guinness drinker and he couldn't stomach it either. Then they started selling syringes with the bottles so people could give their pint a head. That was just weird.

These days, a poured can of Guinness is just as good as the pint down the local, regardless of what some people would have you believe.

My local is renowned for its Guinness and has been for many a decade. It's a Guinness pub.

I get a consistently good pour from Guinness cans...

Open it... wait about 3 seconds and wholly invert it into the glass and pull the can out as fast as the glass fills.. Fully empty the can in one go. Don't carry on like you're a barman with 45 degree angles and two stage pours. Does not work out of a can.

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You've said nothing that I don't know already.

And where I drink is on this list...

You're determined to a dick are ya.

Enjoy your day kid. 😉

Perhaps. But the lines do have to be cleaned from time to time.

Where I drink it's almost exclusively Guinness, although there are other pints available of course. I know the people that run it pretty well and they've told me that the vast majority of their sales is Guinness and if people stopped drinking it, they'd be out of business in short order. So the Guinness is always on the go.

Funny you term it "old man pub", because that's exactly what we used to call it when we first started going there.

If you pour it steady and slowly, you can regulate the head. It you horse it all in quickly, more than likely you end up with a head over an inch and half high.

"I remember the days when you could only get Guinness in a bottle."

Ah yes, the old Guinness Extra Stout - it was all over the place in Elder Days, in a time when our grandmothers swore by the "egg flip". I was always given to understand that that was a completely different brew from the draught stout, though?

Any other beer straight from the can is equally fine to a glass.

Stout has to be poured

You can still get the Guinness Extra Stout in bottles I think. Been a while since I've seen it though. AFAIK, the extra stout has carbon in it and a higher alc. content. Draught is a much milder drink. Don't think I could go on a sesh guzzling the extra stuff.

guinness themselves literally say to pour a can at a 45deg angle though

Guinness doesn't NEED to be poured properly from a can. The pub 2 part pour is pure marketing (the settle allows the head to solidify so can come above the glass when topped up) as long as gas mix is correct

The can has the correct gas mix in place so will settle just fine in the can.

Biofilm is a horrid thing to let into pipes and makes a horrid taste

I had a weirdly similar experience in Germany recently. A few of us Irish and a few germans all got bottled beer. And we all drank out of the bottle. But apparently one beer you are absolutely not meant to do that with.

If there are any germans around I think I have this right. From the bottle "OK" is: "Pils" "export" "keller" "spezial" and "bock"

absolutely never from the bottle is: "weizen" or "hefe"?

In all honestly Id drink Guiness from a can. But my tooth has gotten sweeter as I got older so I am kinda erring towards Murphys these days. On the rare occasion when I actually drink :)