“Lovely Day for a Guinness.”
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Guinness is Actually Red. Hold your glass up to the light and you’ll see The Black Stuff is actually a deep ruby red. The company attributes this in part to the roasting of malted barley during preparation.
You’re Wasting Guinness if You Have a Mustache. According to a 2000 U.K. survey, Guinness drinkers with mustaches trap an estimated 162,719 pints of beer in their facial fur every year (each of them effectively paying a “mustache tax” of £4.58 per annum).
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You’re Probably Drinking it Wrong. Not only is there an official way to pour a pint of Guinness, but an official way to drink it, too. According to McGovern you must hold your elbow up, perpendicular to the floor (“Guinness drinkers are confidant drinkers”) so hold your elbow up, drink right through the head (the hoppiest, most bitter part of the beer) until you taste the sweet, roasted body.
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It Was Marketed as a Health Product. The first-ever national print advertisement for Guinness touts the stout as a “valuable restorative after Influenza and other illnesses,” and invokes doctors who commend the beer’s ability to enrich blood and cure insomnia. Their slogan: Guinness is good for you. (That part is still hard to dispute).
It is, Thankfully, Very Low-Cal. A 12-ounce can of Guinness only contains about 126 calories—only 16 more than a Bud Light. The reason, for better or worse, is that Guinness has a modest alcohol content of only 4.2% (so don’t beat yourself up for putting away two or three of them after a few hours at the pub).
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The Guinness Book of World Records was Made to Settle a Pub Argument. One November day in 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, former Guinness managing director, was out shooting with some friends when they began to argue over which was the fastest game bird in Europe. When reference books supplied no answer, Beaver decided that the drinking world desperately needed one volume that could single-handedly settle any pub dispute. Three years later, The Guinness Book of Records printed its first thousand copies. It has since been published in 23 languages, in 100 countries.
The Guinness Brewery Signed a 9,000-Year Lease in Dublin. In 1759, Arthur Guinness began brewing at the unoccupied St. James’s Gate Brewery, apparently liking the facilities enough to sign a 9,000-year lease on the building within a few months. At £45 per year, the lease was incredibly far-sighted—but became moot when the brewery expanded and had to buy up the underlying land outright.
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Guinness Helped Make Ireland What It Is. Arthur Guinness was as much philanthropist as entrepreneur. According to Stephen Mansfield, author of The Search for God and Guinness, Arthur “poured himself in founding the first Sunday schools in Ireland. He gave vast amounts of money to the poor, sat on the board of a hospital designed to serve the needy and bravely challenged the material excesses of his own social class. He was nearly a one man army of reform.� Some even say Guinness saved Ireland during WWII.
Guinness Literally Tastes Best in Ireland. A survey of 71 bars in 14 countries conducted by the Institute of Food Technologists found that a pint of the plain truly does taste better on the Emerald Isle. This is likely due to freshness (all Guinness sold in Ireland, the U.K., and North America is brewed in Dublin) as well as pub-to-pub quality control (a bar outside of Ireland is more likely to use an inferior combination of carbonating gases in their taps). Cheers!
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1 Glass ................................................ 5 2 Tilt ..................................................... 7 3 Pull ................................................... 9 4 Settle ............................................... 11 5 Top-Up ............................................. 13 6 Perfect ............................................ 15 Certificate .......................................... 17
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Bibliography Guinness Images:
Guinness & Co. 2016, scan.
Guinness Logo:
Logos with the tag alcohol. (n.d.). Retrieved December 07, 2017, from https://worldvectorlogo.com/tag/alcohol/2
Guinness Text:
Trusted Media Brands Inc., B. (2017). Amazing Facts About Guinness Beer Reader’s Digest - Reader’s Digest. Retrieved December 12, 2017, from https://www.rd.com/culture/facts-about-guinness-beer/
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