My friend Mike keeps telling me that I should go to this bar down by where he lives, where the bartender has mastered the art of the perfect Guinness pour. According to him, the pour should take 120 seconds in order to get the proper amount of head.
Well, as someone who would never pass up good head, the exact time requirement nevertheless seemed rather stringent to me. I mean... how much can really go wrong with an extra 1 second? I've had plenty of Guinness(es?) at bars with various different pour times, and never have I been able to tell the difference.
Well, as it turns out, apparently the official recommendation from Guinness is a pour of 119.53 seconds, according to Wikipedia, which cited a page on the Guinness website that I cannot seem to access, since it insists I'm not old enough... or something. If I thought 120 seconds was being a bit excessive, 119.53 just sounds utterly ridiculous (and utterly like a marketing campaign).
Well, since it was St. Patrick's day today (or rather, last night), my roommates and I just had to go out for drinks. (It's only proper!) Unfortunately, it appears that the popularity of this particular activity on this particular day has resulted in the bars serving beer in these dinky little plastic cups, and charging just as much for it! In retrospect, getting a pitcher was probably a better idea (though of the four of us, only two drank... so maybe it wouldn't have been).
And you know what? Despite the fact that the price for the Guinness somewhat soured my taste for it... I STILL could not taste anything different. On the other hand, I would much rather have gotten a "proper" Guinness pour than the sad, sad, little cup I got instead.
So... let the legend of the perfect Guinness pour stand. At least we'll be able to get a proper beer out of it.
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