The perfect Guinness before you leave the country.
Everyone knows you can’t come to Ireland without sampling the Black Stuff.
And now Dublin Airport is setting it up so that any visitor who might have forgotten (difficult) can imbibe in Terminal 1.
Airport drinking
DA will make you feel as if you’re in the next best thing to the St James’s Gate brewery.
They have created a snug that offers visuals of the views they would experience if they were in The Liberties (Guinness’s neighbourhood).
Of course Guinness has a range of drink and foods to enjoy too but it’s the ‘plain’, the stout which you’ll go for, so Sláinte.
Now the old saying goes that the best Guinnesses are in Ireland although they cloud it (never done in a Guinness) in mystery.
Drinking rituals
Now I love drinking rituals as much as the next guy.
And I have learned to fix my eyes on the person I’m drinking with when I say Prost in a German bierhouse.
And not question the size of the frothy head on my Urquell Pilsner in the Czech Republic.
Now you don’t have to go to Dublin to learn how to pour the perfect pint although it helps if your cousins run the Liffeyside institution the Workshop.
The global drink
Just walk into any Irish bar around the world, and there are thousands from atop mountains to astride glaciers.
Whether Sean from Athenry will let you tamper with his taps though is a different matter.
One hostelry though where they’ll be glad to help, and in fact insist on it, is at Rí Rá Las Vegas inside The Shoppes at Mandalay Bay.
Glass Vegas
There they’ll give you the only ‘official’ Perfect Pint Experience class outside of Dublin.
Now I don’t want to give it away but there are six steps.
Follow them and you’ll not only get the perfect pint to swallow but also a photo, the glass and discount on the merch.
You can also dine in a pretty realistic recreation of an Irish snug… Vegas style.
Whether you’re fortunate to be in Ireland, passing through or want to escape for a while in an Irish bar somewhere in the world.
Nothing will taste as Irish as the Perfect Guinness.