Guinness ‘double-pour’ beer debate has brewery and pub bosses at loggerheads

Beer lovers declare they’ve been fed a lie – and the well-known double pour of Guinness is a fable.

When it involves a pint of the much-loved black stuff, the double pour, which is supposed to let the primary half settle, has all the time been seen as fully mandatory. However regardless of the corporate brand of “Good things come to those who wait”, one beer boffin stated the all-important resting time of 60 to 80 seconds doesn’t have an effect on the pint’s high quality or style.

Irish bar proprietor Nate Brown has claimed there isn’t a want for the Irish stout to be poured in two phases – and is nothing greater than a advertising and marketing ploy. He stated: “This isn’t finished for the beer’s sake; it was apply within the Guinness brewery to hurry up serving the lots at dwelling time – the model has all the time had the savviest of promoting departments.“

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The double-pour is a fable, apparently
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“If we were to serve all the patrons that come through a single pour they’d raise an eyebrow at you. But if I was just pouring a pint for myself, I wouldn’t bother with the two steps.”

But Guinness have hit back saying it is necessary and it is “virtually impossible” to pour the perfect pint in one go.

A spokesman for Diageo, Guinness’s parent company, said the two-stage pour is required to get the right consistency and height in the head, as well as the dome synonymous with any decent pint of the stout.



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Other pub bosses agree. Oisin Rogers stated the concept the two-stage pour is pointless is “absolute horses**t”. He added: “It’s impossible to get a correctly presented pint of Guinness in one pour because the meniscus is negative. Therefore, it’s a dimple rather than a dome.”

We will certainly elevate a pint that that information regardless.

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