Love it, or hate it?

I Guinness.

It's like a meal in a drink.

not for me .... I can't get it down ...

Spookymuffin said:

Its velvet in drink form

but only in pubs, the cans never taste as nice

jami0mckay said:

No, and the bottles are even worse.

I may install a tap in my house just so I can have draft guinness.

One4All4Ever said:

Use a straw.

Spookymuffin said:

only just noticed your sig, quite poetic

jami0mckay said:

I like it.

jami0mckay said:

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Spookymuffin said:

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No, and the bottles are even worse.

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I like it.

GOOOOO Guinness. Love the stuff

Black Gold ...I have a video of me downing a pint in four seconds.
Never did it since because it was a waste of a pint.

I like Guinness. I also find it intriguing that it gives you black turds.

I just can take it if I'm hungry , sometimes this beer seems and odd mix of solid/liquid nourishment ...it's so heavy...

fuck it im going for one right now

muirdo said:

wish I could, the nearest I can get is to stir my coffee really fast so it looks frothy

JDInteractive said:

I love that.

muirdo said:

4 seconds? Most impressive.

jami0mckay said:

It looks great but I don't drink beer, so...

Spookymuffin said:

Who are you, Darth Vader or something?

i'll take a pint.... or 6

Teacher said:

Are you teetotal, or just no beer?

Spookymuffin said:

Just no beer, or wine... something with the yeast there...but bring me a cocktail or a cider and I'm up for it!

Teacher said:

10 bucks says she'll drink mead tho'

IAintTheOne said:

Hell no, that shit tastes godawful Plus you know who made the batch and whether or not shti was clean, you know? So hell no, no mead.

IAintTheOne said:

from the BBC so its TRUE!
Guinness good for you - official

The old advertising slogan "Guinness is Good for You" may be true after all, according to researchers.

A pint of the black stuff a day may work as well as an aspirin to prevent heart clots that raise the risk of heart attacks.

Drinking lager does not yield the same benefits, experts from Wisconsin University told a conference in the US.

Guinness were told to stop using the slogan decades ago - and the firm still makes no health claims for the drink.

The Wisconsin team tested the health-giving properties of stout against lager by giving it to dogs who had narrowed arteries similar to those in heart disease.

They found that those given the Guinness had reduced clotting activity in their blood, but not those given lager.

Heart trigger

Clotting is important for patients who are at risk of a heart attack because they have hardened arteries.

A heart attack is triggered when a clot lodges in one of these arteries supplying the heart.

Many patients are prescribed low-dose aspirin as this cuts the ability of the blood to form these dangerous clots.

The researchers told a meeting of the American Heart Association in Orlando, Florida, that the most benefit they saw was from 24 fluid ounces of Guinness - just over a pint - taken at mealtimes.


We already know that most of the clotting effects are due to the alcohol itself, rather than any other ingredients
Spokesman, Brewing Research International
They believe that "antioxidant compounds" in the Guinness, similar to those found in certain fruits and vegetables, are responsible for the health benefits because they slow down the deposit of harmful cholesterol on the artery walls.

However, Diageo, the company that now manufactures Guinness, said: "We never make any medical claims for our drinks."

The company now runs advertisements that call for "responsible drinking".

A spokesman for Brewing Research International, which conducts research for the industry, said she would be "wary" of placing the health benefits of any alcohol brand above another.

She said: "We already know that most of the clotting effects are due to the alcohol itself, rather than any other ingredients.

"It is possible that there is an extra effect due to the antioxidants in Guinness - but I would like to see this research repeated."

She said that reviving the old adverts for Guinness might be problematic - at least in the EU.

Draft legislation could outlaw any health claims in adverts for alcohol in Europe, she said.

Feelgood factor

The original campaign in the 1920s stemmed from market research - when people told the company that they felt good after their pint, the slogan was born.

In England, post-operative patients used to be given Guinness, as were blood donors, because of its high iron content.

Pregnant women and nursing mothers were at one stage advised to drink Guinness - the present advice is against this.

The UK is still the largest market in the world for Guinness, although the drink does not feature in the UK's top ten beer brands according to the latest research.

My favorite beer!

A sandwich in every glass

he had finished his pint and i still had 2/3 of my MGD left

LOVE IT!!!!!

I am assuming this is not a thread about the late Sir Alec Guiness who kicked ass as Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi.

The first time I ever got REALLY drunk was on Guiness. Half the people in my little international dorm were from Europe and we went down to this bar that did not card. I was along for the ride, I told them I hadn't really drunken anything alcoholic other than say light beer my best friend had cribbed from his father. They kept going on and on about I had never been "proper drunk" and they ordered me up a Guiness and pretty much challenged my manhood until I drank it. I wasn't crazy about the taste but I liked the trippy feeling so I ordered another and another and...well, let's just say I spent most of the evening talking to this particularly friendly group of fish that were in this large aquarium close to the bar. Then I subsequently went home and threw up things that I truly could not remember eating.

Damn, those were some good times...
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