And you’d expect the owner of the company at least to know how to pour the perfect pint of Guinness, but alas not.
Edward Guinness’s cack-handed tilt is, of course, not the only inaccuracy in The House of Guinness, but it is the most serious.
Eddie makes a set piece of showing Fenian firebrand Ellen how to pour the stout out of a bottle in the Stephen Knight Netflix series.
Using the whole theatre of the moment in a posh Dublin hotel.
Tilting in wrong direction
To point out that patience is essential for the perfect Guinness.
And that the same ought to be applied to the fight for an Irish republic.
Only that he has the tilt all wrong and that the head is too thin.
Now, as with all matters, we always go the experts.
And in the absence of my Donegal hotelier grandpa or my four Irish publican uncles. I’ll settle on the next big thing.
The Guinness Storehouse at St James’s Gate in The Liberties, Dublin who advise.
The initial pour
Hold your glass at a 45-degree angle and aim the tap nozzle for the gold harp logo.
Pour until you reach the top of the harp, then stop.
Let it settle
Set the Guinness down and let it rest, which is called the ‘surge and settle’ phase.
The darker stout slowly sinks under the creamy, white foam.
Top off the pint
Settle your drink for about a minute beforeyou fill up the rest of the glass.
With the glass straight, fill until the foam forms a dome for the perfect Guinness head.
And all of which I learned first hand for myself in a little corner of Ireland.
They call Las Vegas and Rí Rá Irish Pub at The Shoppes at Mandalay Place.
