Now, some homework, you idlers, pouring the perfect pint at The Home of Guinness Experience in the home of our favourite stout, Dublin.
Well, of course, we have had the drinking part licked.
Since first we started frothing our upper lip some 45 years ago.
Although we never tire of quenching our thirst.
And best of all in Guinness’s spiritual home which we did last week in Whelan’s in the Irish capital.
My perfect cousins
It is a recurring question, always pitched at those from Ireland and its diaspora…
Is the Guinness really better in Ireland?
I take my cue here from my cousins who run the family business Kennedy’s, now The Worskshop, next to Tara Street DART station, on the Liffey.
Who tell us that the Guinness needs to be kept in circulation.
Which is why bar Guinness is always better than its hotel equivalent.
All of which makes sense to us.
Pure genius
Of course nowhere does the Guinness run more consistently than St James’s Gate in the Liberties.
Where the genius happens.
And where the Guinness Storehouse, the World’s Leading Beer Tour Visitor Experience, is introducing a new tour, the ‘Home of Guinness Experience’.
You’ll be part of a fully guided tour where you’ll discover and delve deeper.
Into the origins, history and innovation of Guinness throughout seven floors.
All paired with a lesson at the Guinness Academy where visitors can learn the legendary six-step ritual.
By pouring their own pint, earning their very own certificate.
Before finishing up with a creamy pint overlooking the 360-degree views of the city.
Barack, the Queen, Bill’s pal and me
Now Guinness Storehouse is rightly proud that it has welcomed 25 million visitors through its doors since 2000.
Including the Queen and Prince Philip, Barack Obama and yours truly, as guest of Bill Clinton’s best pal, the former Governor of Virginia Terry McAuliffe
The perfect pint at the Home of Guinness Experience runs Monday-Thursday with time slots available at 11am or 1pm with a maximum of 12 people per tour.
Running now until Wednesday 30th April, tickets priced at €48pp are live on the Guinness Storehouse website. Strictly over 18’s only.
Now whisper it but I’ve already initiated in the arts of Guinness pouring by said Kennedys at The Workshop.
And also the Perfect Pint Experience at Las Vegas Ri Ra.
When I was out there and managed to Strip the Light Fantastic.
