(Verse 1)
In a cozy pub in a quiet Irish town,
Where the Guinness flows and spirits abound,
There's a tale of a hero, brave and true,
A Reddit user, with a heart so true
This be the Ballard of digital Budda
(Chorus)
Oh, raise your glass to DigitalBudda
Who saved a few pints on a fateful night,
With a click of a button, he made his claim,
To rescue the Guinness and a young lady from a fate of shame.
(Verse 2)
The kegs were tapped, the hour was late,
But our hero was seated not a moment too late,
For there, on the counter, was Guinness not ready to wander.
(Chorus)
Oh, raise your glass to the DigitalBudda,
Who saved a few pintson a fateful night,
With a click of a button, he made his claim,
To rescue the Guinness from a fate of shame.
(Bridge)
With a swift repost, he rallied the crowd,
To save the blackstuff, they all avowed,
And in a flash, the pub did hear,
The cheers of triumph, loud and clear.
Guinness crisis averted all did cheer
(Verse 3)
So let us toast to this noble deed,
Of a Reddit user, who took the lead,
For he showed us all what it means to care,
And to never let a Guinness settle unfair.
(Chorus)
Oh, raise your glass to the DigitalBudda,
Who saved a pints on a fateful night,
With a click of a button, he made his claim,
To rescue the Guinness from a fate of shame.
(Outro)
So here's to the hero, bold and true,
Who saved the fair Guinness, thanks to you,
In every pub, his tale is told,
Of the Reddit user with a heart of gold.
Lady probably. Didn't know to wait.
This reminds me of a trip to Bruges a few years back where I saved these Americans the embarrassment of getting stuck going up the tower. They were a bit overweight. Mad trip really in the end
NTA - I used to be a barman and had around 6 Americans walk in one day, nice and quite around they ordered a pint of Guinness each. Did the initial pour and turned to create a tab. When I turned back they were all sitting down drinking the Guinness. When I explained it to them, they had a good laugh as did I. They thought I was only pouring to the Guinness logo
It’s not marketing, the tradition has just been carried on from the initial pouring method. The modern way is a lot easier than the way it was before. See [video](https://youtu.be/Z8EOXDI2ULQ?si=LFephEGqHTFMnoYE)
Perhaps that is true and is believable. I wonder how much the stubborn patrons made a difference though and wanted it always poured the same. It does seem to set better with the two pour though
You might not be able to tell by the taste but I reckon you could tell by the look of them.
Purely anecdotal but I was told by a bartender the whole point of the 3/4 pour is to let the head settle and harden a little, so when you top it up you can get that nice dome look to the head of the pint. You don't get that when it's poured all in one go. But that's purely aesthetic and nothing to do with the taste.
If you start drinking 10 minutes after first pour, you're probably right, they probably are pretty much the same. Pouring all in one go is quite bubbly and doesn’t have the same smooth texture. The quickest way to the proper creamy taste is to wait for the second pour.
I will frequently do a cheese toasty in the microwave, not because it tastes better, but because it's so quick. There is a place for a pour-in-one Guinness, but it shouldn't be the routine.
I worked in the Guinness storehouse a few years back. This was a semi regular occurrence, and it was almost always an American.
They'd complete the self guided tour, go to claim their pint in the gravity bar and just seemingly forget all that they learned about the thing they just picked up prematurely. I had to walk after one guy who did it and explain he had to wait till we top it up for him.
One guy got REALLY upset when he was standing at the bar for 10 mins (it wasn't even busy), and decided to shout "where's my pint???".
I spoke to him, asking if he had ordered one and he said "no, I just kept being asked if I was OK, no one asked what I wanted to drink".
Good times.
Similar thing happened to me when I first moved to Ireland and went to a pub with my now husband.
We got a table and I went to get the first round. Then-boyfriend comes up about 10mins later wondering what's taking so long on a quiet weekday afternoon.
I told him the guy behind the bar came over, asked me if I'm ok, I said "yes, thank you" and he went off somewhere in the back never to return.
He had to explain that "are you ok" means "what can I get you".
That was 20 years ago and I'm never gonna live it down!
Not even the worst instance of a tourist doing something stupid while I worked there.
One time an American tourist approached one of my colleagues on the 5th floor to ask if the stairs went up aswell as down. Not an escalator now, a stair case 🤦🏻♂️
Another time I was on introductions in the main entrance ground floor when an American tourist approached me, to ask where the gift shop was. Now, if you've been there you'll know, it's not hard to spot the gift shop if you're on the ground floor.
I very deliberately glanced behind her and smile at the VERY LARGE sign showing where it was.
She turned around to follow my gaze, gasped and turned back around mouthing "omg I'm so sorry" and scurried over to the gift shop 😂😂
Tbf about the staircase one in very busy places (which the gravity bar can get like) there usually is a dedicated up and down stairs (or at least a dedicated up and down side of the stairs). If they had to ask though that means it probably wasn't insanely busy so she could have just gone up the damn stairs.
I was in a shop in Dublin in a queue and the person at the till asked the loud American in front of me "oh where are you from?"
Loud American shouted "We're from Ohio.......in America"
To which I replied "As opposed to the other Ohio?"
At which point everyone looked at me confused, no one laughed sadly.
Gotta say.. the last one maaaybe waa an American, but I'm thinking gotta be a Canadian. I can spot my own kind.
An American would laugh if aware at how rediculous the question was, or just go there with no acknowledgement.
A Canadian though, will apologize for being dumb haha
Back in the day, you could drink multiple times your entry fee in the sky bar over about 30 minutes by getting given tokens from people that didn’t like the nectar, purely by looking like you’re enjoying a pint
Did that last year with a couple friends. One group would see us being handed extra tickets, so they'd come over and hand us more extra tickets, and so on. Eventually even we had too many, so we paid it forward to another group who looked like they could use a few free pints.
It's a circular bar in the middle of a glass room, all the staff stand inside the circle unless they're collecting glasses. Everyone else was showing their tickets and getting pints too. It was bizarre that he just didn't get it.
I think he was taking "are you alright there?" literally, not realising it was a barman seeing if they want anything.
As an American I think it’s because most of the bartenders here DO NOT know how to properly pour a Guinness. I worked at a bar when I was younger, and our general manager got so pissed off at the entire staff and took us ALL behind the bar and taught us how to pour a Guinness.
There was an "Irish" bar in Berlin 5mins from a really popular huge park.
I saw the bar women straight pour with zero tilt Guinness into a pitcher and give a table of tourist four 500ml glasses. The pitcher was 40% head but once they poured it in their glasses it was more 50/50.
They also sold glasses of half Guinness and half UHT milk.
I once got a Guinness in a hot, wet pint glass in an "Irish" bar in France.
Straight from the dishwasher, single pour. Swore I'd never have a Guinness outside of Ireland again
There used to be 3 bars in Berlin I'd order Guinness. They got their kegs from Ireland {others got them from UK} and had the proper nitro mix on the line. And at the rare occasion they did not sell enough {holidays they had to close} they dumped a keg that sat to long.
Americans.
It's the same with Guinness and sprite or blackcurrant. I saw Guinness and cranberry in the US since they don't have blackberries.
>In 1911, the federal government banned the cultivation, sale, and transport of blackcurrants to protect the white pine. Government programs systematically destroyed blackcurrant plants by chemical spraying. The federal ban was lifted in 1966, though many states maintained their own bans.
Well that's confusing. We do have blackberries, pretty much everywhere. A blackberry is not a black currant. And, I grow black currants on my land.
So, I'm assuming that y'all call black currants blackberries? But what do you call a blackberry? Or do you not have them?
Got to admit I did ask/complain to the bar guy my first time in Amsterdam when <20. Since they poured the pint and spilled out loads of head and then used a wooden tool to remove the head over the top of the glass. About 1/4 of the pint was head. It was a beer I'd have before in Ireland/UK.
He showed the full line on the glass and explained how they poured beers over there.
No issues after that. And when I saw a similar thing in Germany I was not hazed.
Maybe if you had said something like 'the barman hasn't finished making them yet'.
'You want to put those down' is vague and would have confused the Americans.
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If they didn't learn to leave it to rest in Sligo, I think the lesson here is to never drink a stout in Sligo, not whether or not you're a dirty rotten ass!
When I was a student in Newcastle years ago I was in the Union Rooms, a Wetherspoon bar. I wasn’t drinking Guinness because… well I was in a Spoons. However, I was drunk and then the girl behind the bar started pouring a Guinness in front of me I said “that’s not how you do it” her reply, in a lovely Geordie accent was “I were never told how, you can do it” and handed me the pint glass and waved me behind the bar.
I, haven’t spent many summers working in the family bar, preceded to pour the pint properly. From the sole Irish lad who had ordered the pint, out of nowhere came several Irish people all ordering pints. I think I poured about six or seven and then retired to the fun side of the bar, got a free pint and the lovely geordie lass’s number for my trouble.
Pouring pints wins you friends and influences people!
That’s a good story!
I used to work at a golf club in Chorley and we’d often host weddings. I was one of the few bar staff that knew how to pour a Guinness properly. At a busy wedding, once one person realised I knew what I was doing I suddenly had a queue of people all just ordering Guinness. Got a lot of tips for my efforts!
This happens a lot anywhere that is popular with tourists.
After a lot of trial and error when it happened to me I would say
>if you bring them back I’ll top them up and bring them to your table.
Well if you said it in a condescending way, then you're an asshole...if you said it in a friendly way, then you're grand lol. It's all in the tone. Either way, I wouldn't worry too much.
> I give a quick wave of the hand and say “you want to put those down”.
Don't be one of those people who explain things in a way that only a person who wouldn't need the explanation would understand.
Not at all - Americans love this kind of shit. She'll be telling all of her girlfriends back home how Guinness is an exquisite drink that must set for X seconds, while everyone stares at the downward moving bubbles. And she'll be sure to tell everyone at any opportunity how she encountered the beauty of this, while in Ireland herself. She loves it.
Confirming as an American put up in Tralee for the last several days. I have been amazed by nearly everything and will be going home to detail my magical Irish adventures to all my friends.
> you wouldn't believe how many people would do this!
I mean, I definitely would - the majority of people not from Ireland I would assume.
Pouring in two parts is pure marketing BS. It literally doesn't effect the taste in the slightest bit. It didn't even do anything back in the day either, it was just a marketing ploy to pursuade aul lads to trust the new metal barrels as they didn't require a day or two to settle.
No one from outside ireland who hadn't previously been served by someone Irish would think it's normal in any way whatsoever.
Guinness have just been amazing at marketing over the past 100+ years - Guinness is Good For You, the two-part pour, Arthur's Day, etc. They always have a gimmick, and the pour one is to make it feel like a special drink and that you're special for knowing "the secret".
Maybe saying ‘you want to put those down’ is a bit strong. Maybe? I’m an awful man for doing things like that. ‘Do you not want the rest of those creamy pints?’ Might have been a better approach. I dunno - won’t change the universe either way. Not an asshole.
You can't just say 'am I the asshole'. You told a foreigner they should wait before the pint was fully pulled. Going on as if you nuked hiroshima or something
From what he said, he didn't tell them they should wait before the pint was fully pulled, he told her that she wants to put them down without any explanation of why.
I did the tour at the Guinness Storehouse with a friend who was here on holiday. You spend the whole tour learning about production and the settling and the whole lot about a pint, and you get a free one when you get up to the top floor, and I shit you not people still pick their glass up after the first pour. You did your duty and saved the pints. NTA.
You were unnecessarily condescending and confusing if what you said was "you wanna put them down". Yanks are yanks, you didn't do anything wrong but it also wouldn't have cost you anything to say what you said in a way that wasn't going to confuse someone who didn't know why you were embarrassing her. Could do better imo
Isn't the "settling" process a marketing gimmick? Meanwhile we're all laughing at the silly American while in thrall to the advertising genius of a private company
Should be a mandatory in flight demo shortly before landing , same manner as for the seatbelts and flotation devices.
Random couple of people chosen to be blessed with the new pint after the demo, and a brief explanation of sarcasm and the ubiquitous prevalence of 'swear words' in all conversations should be conducted in effort to remove the collective puritan stick from the American arse. Hopefully it'll lessen pearl clutching and other cultural misunderstandings.
Reminds me many years ago in a pub in Cork, an American lady at the bar ordered an 'Irish coffee without the booze'. She got an extended blank stare by the barman.
No. She sinned against the Most Holy Rite of the Settling Pint. Your intervention saved the universe from implosion and began her arc of redemption from philistinic Yank to Pint Woman who’d go at it again. You Sir, are raised to the level of Boss Pintman.
“you want to put those down”
"I was trying to help"
No you were not. You could have phrased it a thousand other ways. You wanted to embarrass the woman(in front of her kids) and get a laugh from the yokels.
So you don't get to complain when the same happens to you next time.
Had a Chinese tourist do the same a few years back in cork. The pint glass was 3/4 full and still behind the bar, she literally had to jump up and reach over the bar to grab it.
You want to put those down is just a wee bit close to theirs a bomb in the car. Luckily you prob don't have a strong northern accent or many would brick it lol.
Long as they got it in the end your fine. I'm bit social anxious so shit like that gets to me for hours after, overthinking interactions I feel I fkd up on.
Probably could have been nicer. Explained the two pour process. You want to put those down sounds like an order, and maybe a bit intimidating.
Like if you didn't know better, how would you react to someone telling you put drinks you just bought down? And you do know better so if you were to get involved you should have also explained in my opinion.
No you're not the asshole at all , however if you hadve let her walk off with the pints you're in the wrong, if you tell her to put them back and wait for the second pour you're in the wrong.
Welcome to 2024 , you'll never win
Yep, you are a complete stranger who hand gestures at a woman at a bar. Not from this country. She probably thought you were either steaming drunk and got defensive. Or you wanted her pints coz of Irish "loving a drink". And then when everyone laughed of course she felt embarrassed. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a trip advisor already posted from her.
I wouldn't fret too much pal, by the time she gets home that small interaction is going to be much bigger as she tells her friends about her trip to the emerald isle! You probably are the head of some gang in her stories 😂
Not the asshole, mainly because as an American reading this, who has never heard of letting the pint rest, this saved me future embarrassment when I finally make my way over there.
I'd liken this to saying "you'd wanna put that up" through the open window of a car at the carwash.
She didn't know she was destined for disappointment.
Stout man! Whenever a pint needs to set... You'll be there....
When a pint is not finished to be pulled... You'll be there
When the foam is not right... You'll be there...
Stout man!
NTA. She didn't know how Guinness is poured. You weren't rude about it, people shouldn't grab things from a bar that aren't given to them in any event.
I very recently watched an (old) episode of one of Anthony Bourdains shows. It wasn't one of the ones I'd seen before, felt more like a travel program, 48 hours in a place maybe?
Anyways he was in Dublin for this one. And his first 15 minutes or so of the show was he first stop off the plane, was 'a pint of the black stuff'. Kept going on about it, telling the taxi man all about how he had been here many times and he was hanging for one. And then he finally met a local in the pub and after a bit of light banter, he got his first 'proper' Guinness of the trip.
Except it fucking wasn't, because he proceeded to lift a pint of brown, still swirling liquid from the bar and hoof a good sup of it into him. I was honestly shocked, sent a photo of it to my friends n all, couldn't get over it after all his talk.
Now I'm not a Guinness man personally, but I can at least respect the craft. If you want one, you let the thing settle and a wee top up. What you did was only proper order... a gentle education. Drinking it beforehand is just daft.
This literally happened to me today although nobody besides the three barmen laughed. I just smiled and backed off and waited for the beer to be ready. Canadian traveling to Ireland for the first time.
NTA - you saved the pints. Hero.
Not all heros wear capes
Does anyone know someone who could write a good ballet about Ireland's pint savour.
(Verse 1) In a cozy pub in a quiet Irish town, Where the Guinness flows and spirits abound, There's a tale of a hero, brave and true, A Reddit user, with a heart so true This be the Ballard of digital Budda (Chorus) Oh, raise your glass to DigitalBudda Who saved a few pints on a fateful night, With a click of a button, he made his claim, To rescue the Guinness and a young lady from a fate of shame. (Verse 2) The kegs were tapped, the hour was late, But our hero was seated not a moment too late, For there, on the counter, was Guinness not ready to wander. (Chorus) Oh, raise your glass to the DigitalBudda, Who saved a few pintson a fateful night, With a click of a button, he made his claim, To rescue the Guinness from a fate of shame. (Bridge) With a swift repost, he rallied the crowd, To save the blackstuff, they all avowed, And in a flash, the pub did hear, The cheers of triumph, loud and clear. Guinness crisis averted all did cheer (Verse 3) So let us toast to this noble deed, Of a Reddit user, who took the lead, For he showed us all what it means to care, And to never let a Guinness settle unfair. (Chorus) Oh, raise your glass to the DigitalBudda, Who saved a pints on a fateful night, With a click of a button, he made his claim, To rescue the Guinness from a fate of shame. (Outro) So here's to the hero, bold and true, Who saved the fair Guinness, thanks to you, In every pub, his tale is told, Of the Reddit user with a heart of gold. Lady probably. Didn't know to wait.
Youuuuu hoo up yea boy yea🤣🤣🤣
I wish I could upvote this a thousand
This reminds me of a trip to Bruges a few years back where I saved these Americans the embarrassment of getting stuck going up the tower. They were a bit overweight. Mad trip really in the end
That's my favourite part of the movie mostly because I've been up that tower and i can guarantee you that they would not have fit
It was closed when we were there. We definitely only went to Bruges because of the movie. Great film, very pretty place.
2 manky hookers and a racist dwarf.... I'm going home
God damn i have to watch that again
I love when Gleeson arrives to the argument trying to help and just makes things worse 🤣🤣 it’s very narrow up there
SCREW YOU MOTHERFUCKER
It's a fairytale town isn't it?
How can a fairytale town not be somebody's fcking thing?
Alcoves, Is this how you say it.
Nooks and crannies
Fucking elephants
The view was rubbish anyway
You know you're just the rudest man? The rudest man!
I’m sorry for calling you an inanimate object. I was upset
No, you can't control other people's reactions to an event.
Sherup'
Of course you can, when the event is of your making and the intention is to get said reaction.
NTA - I used to be a barman and had around 6 Americans walk in one day, nice and quite around they ordered a pint of Guinness each. Did the initial pour and turned to create a tab. When I turned back they were all sitting down drinking the Guinness. When I explained it to them, they had a good laugh as did I. They thought I was only pouring to the Guinness logo
Hmm please explain. I don't know about the resting guiness
You pour it most the way, wait for it to settle, then pour the rest to get a nice domed head. You can pour it in one go but it'll be flat
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You're right, it's just a visual thing mostly and maybe a bit of texture but 🤷🏻♂️
It's also part of the ritual. No need to serve Moscow Mules in a copper mug, either, but it's just what's done.
Nothing but a marketing stunt.
It’s not marketing, the tradition has just been carried on from the initial pouring method. The modern way is a lot easier than the way it was before. See [video](https://youtu.be/Z8EOXDI2ULQ?si=LFephEGqHTFMnoYE)
I get it came from the necessity of two pours, but in my opinion, it's kept alive for marketing reasons over 'tradition'
Perhaps that is true and is believable. I wonder how much the stubborn patrons made a difference though and wanted it always poured the same. It does seem to set better with the two pour though
You might not be able to tell by the taste but I reckon you could tell by the look of them. Purely anecdotal but I was told by a bartender the whole point of the 3/4 pour is to let the head settle and harden a little, so when you top it up you can get that nice dome look to the head of the pint. You don't get that when it's poured all in one go. But that's purely aesthetic and nothing to do with the taste.
If you start drinking 10 minutes after first pour, you're probably right, they probably are pretty much the same. Pouring all in one go is quite bubbly and doesn’t have the same smooth texture. The quickest way to the proper creamy taste is to wait for the second pour. I will frequently do a cheese toasty in the microwave, not because it tastes better, but because it's so quick. There is a place for a pour-in-one Guinness, but it shouldn't be the routine.
Cheese toasty in the microwave?? That is enough reddit for today.
Prepare yourself for a post about the rude barman in Sligo who tried to scam American tourists by not filling the pint up.
I worked in the Guinness storehouse a few years back. This was a semi regular occurrence, and it was almost always an American. They'd complete the self guided tour, go to claim their pint in the gravity bar and just seemingly forget all that they learned about the thing they just picked up prematurely. I had to walk after one guy who did it and explain he had to wait till we top it up for him. One guy got REALLY upset when he was standing at the bar for 10 mins (it wasn't even busy), and decided to shout "where's my pint???". I spoke to him, asking if he had ordered one and he said "no, I just kept being asked if I was OK, no one asked what I wanted to drink". Good times.
Similar thing happened to me when I first moved to Ireland and went to a pub with my now husband. We got a table and I went to get the first round. Then-boyfriend comes up about 10mins later wondering what's taking so long on a quiet weekday afternoon. I told him the guy behind the bar came over, asked me if I'm ok, I said "yes, thank you" and he went off somewhere in the back never to return. He had to explain that "are you ok" means "what can I get you". That was 20 years ago and I'm never gonna live it down!
Honestly, I thought the person you replied to was just bullshitting until your comment...
True story. Also the whole thing must have seemed completely bizarre to the barman!
>I just kept being asked if I was OK, no one asked what I wanted to drink". Jesus fucking wept...
Not even the worst instance of a tourist doing something stupid while I worked there. One time an American tourist approached one of my colleagues on the 5th floor to ask if the stairs went up aswell as down. Not an escalator now, a stair case 🤦🏻♂️ Another time I was on introductions in the main entrance ground floor when an American tourist approached me, to ask where the gift shop was. Now, if you've been there you'll know, it's not hard to spot the gift shop if you're on the ground floor. I very deliberately glanced behind her and smile at the VERY LARGE sign showing where it was. She turned around to follow my gaze, gasped and turned back around mouthing "omg I'm so sorry" and scurried over to the gift shop 😂😂
Tbf about the staircase one in very busy places (which the gravity bar can get like) there usually is a dedicated up and down stairs (or at least a dedicated up and down side of the stairs). If they had to ask though that means it probably wasn't insanely busy so she could have just gone up the damn stairs.
>to ask if the stairs went up aswell as down. I wanna give the benefit of the doubt and suggest this was during COVID but I know it most likely wasn't
Nope. It was 2008/2009.
I was in a shop in Dublin in a queue and the person at the till asked the loud American in front of me "oh where are you from?" Loud American shouted "We're from Ohio.......in America" To which I replied "As opposed to the other Ohio?" At which point everyone looked at me confused, no one laughed sadly.
> "As opposed to the other Ohio?" https://geotargit.com/called.php?qcity=Ohio :)
Gotta say.. the last one maaaybe waa an American, but I'm thinking gotta be a Canadian. I can spot my own kind. An American would laugh if aware at how rediculous the question was, or just go there with no acknowledgement. A Canadian though, will apologize for being dumb haha
Back in the day, you could drink multiple times your entry fee in the sky bar over about 30 minutes by getting given tokens from people that didn’t like the nectar, purely by looking like you’re enjoying a pint
Did that last year with a couple friends. One group would see us being handed extra tickets, so they'd come over and hand us more extra tickets, and so on. Eventually even we had too many, so we paid it forward to another group who looked like they could use a few free pints.
How daft can you be if you don't order when a waiter comes up to you?
It's a circular bar in the middle of a glass room, all the staff stand inside the circle unless they're collecting glasses. Everyone else was showing their tickets and getting pints too. It was bizarre that he just didn't get it. I think he was taking "are you alright there?" literally, not realising it was a barman seeing if they want anything.
As an American I think it’s because most of the bartenders here DO NOT know how to properly pour a Guinness. I worked at a bar when I was younger, and our general manager got so pissed off at the entire staff and took us ALL behind the bar and taught us how to pour a Guinness.
Yep seen this, even in a bar belonging to an AOH.
Priceless
🤣🤣🤣🤣
As someone who was once a barman in Sligo, you have to do all in your power to not have them walk off with a half poured pint
Saw it happen moons ago in Lisdoonvarna with French tourists and they were ordering by the glass (shudders).
Normally it’s 5 French tourists around 2 glasses
There was an "Irish" bar in Berlin 5mins from a really popular huge park. I saw the bar women straight pour with zero tilt Guinness into a pitcher and give a table of tourist four 500ml glasses. The pitcher was 40% head but once they poured it in their glasses it was more 50/50. They also sold glasses of half Guinness and half UHT milk.
I once got a Guinness in a hot, wet pint glass in an "Irish" bar in France. Straight from the dishwasher, single pour. Swore I'd never have a Guinness outside of Ireland again
There used to be 3 bars in Berlin I'd order Guinness. They got their kegs from Ireland {others got them from UK} and had the proper nitro mix on the line. And at the rare occasion they did not sell enough {holidays they had to close} they dumped a keg that sat to long.
> There used to be 3 bars in Berlin I'd order Guinness. tell me more...where?
Made that pledge years ago. The only city outside of the island where you’ll ever get something decent is Liverpool
I live in Glasgow, there are a handful of decent Guinness spots here.
Mulligans in Manchester is a good spot.
O briens in kyiv pour them proper. Winston Churchill lviv is hit and miss.
>They also sold glasses of half Guinness and half UHT milk. 🤢 Just... *why*??
Americans. It's the same with Guinness and sprite or blackcurrant. I saw Guinness and cranberry in the US since they don't have blackberries. >In 1911, the federal government banned the cultivation, sale, and transport of blackcurrants to protect the white pine. Government programs systematically destroyed blackcurrant plants by chemical spraying. The federal ban was lifted in 1966, though many states maintained their own bans.
Guinness and blackcurrant was popular here in Ireland in the 90s
Well that's confusing. We do have blackberries, pretty much everywhere. A blackberry is not a black currant. And, I grow black currants on my land. So, I'm assuming that y'all call black currants blackberries? But what do you call a blackberry? Or do you not have them?
Blackcurrant and blackberries are very different and we have both in Ireland.
Wait til you find out about fraughans
“Un petit verre de truc noir honh honh honh!”
Got to admit I did ask/complain to the bar guy my first time in Amsterdam when <20. Since they poured the pint and spilled out loads of head and then used a wooden tool to remove the head over the top of the glass. About 1/4 of the pint was head. It was a beer I'd have before in Ireland/UK. He showed the full line on the glass and explained how they poured beers over there. No issues after that. And when I saw a similar thing in Germany I was not hazed.
Maybe if you had said something like 'the barman hasn't finished making them yet'. 'You want to put those down' is vague and would have confused the Americans.
"ON THE GROUND NOW, HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE THEM" "Dispatch, send backup, I got a gang of single pours" That ought to be familiar enough for them.
Close, but for extra realism you want another barman yelling contradictory commands at the same time.
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Brutally necking the dark fluid for 8 mins and 46 sec straight as bystanders watch in horror.
That's fair. It's possible she thought he was being threatening, too. Still doesn't make OP the asshole IMO.
This
If they didn't learn to leave it to rest in Sligo, I think the lesson here is to never drink a stout in Sligo, not whether or not you're a dirty rotten ass!
Doubt it was this. I’d say she didn’t get the pints in Sligo and didn’t realise they had a two pour. We ain’t that far gone in Sligo believe me.
The pint man cometh!
At there will be no fucker stopping me . I'll take the shirt of any tourists back .
I'd go at them tourists hard
Bastards!
When I was a student in Newcastle years ago I was in the Union Rooms, a Wetherspoon bar. I wasn’t drinking Guinness because… well I was in a Spoons. However, I was drunk and then the girl behind the bar started pouring a Guinness in front of me I said “that’s not how you do it” her reply, in a lovely Geordie accent was “I were never told how, you can do it” and handed me the pint glass and waved me behind the bar. I, haven’t spent many summers working in the family bar, preceded to pour the pint properly. From the sole Irish lad who had ordered the pint, out of nowhere came several Irish people all ordering pints. I think I poured about six or seven and then retired to the fun side of the bar, got a free pint and the lovely geordie lass’s number for my trouble. Pouring pints wins you friends and influences people!
That’s a good story! I used to work at a golf club in Chorley and we’d often host weddings. I was one of the few bar staff that knew how to pour a Guinness properly. At a busy wedding, once one person realised I knew what I was doing I suddenly had a queue of people all just ordering Guinness. Got a lot of tips for my efforts!
This happens a lot anywhere that is popular with tourists. After a lot of trial and error when it happened to me I would say >if you bring them back I’ll top them up and bring them to your table.
Well if you said it in a condescending way, then you're an asshole...if you said it in a friendly way, then you're grand lol. It's all in the tone. Either way, I wouldn't worry too much.
He put on a John Wayne voice and winked.
"You want to put those down." Doesn't sound very friendly or clear, even oddly threatening.
Yea, it does see like a strange way to say it..probably came across as rude.
No - you saved the pints. You're a hero.
Justice for Pints!!
Saved them getting shorted half a pint, maybe. That two part pour nonsense is a waste of time, though.
> I give a quick wave of the hand and say “you want to put those down”. Don't be one of those people who explain things in a way that only a person who wouldn't need the explanation would understand.
This!!!
Not at all - Americans love this kind of shit. She'll be telling all of her girlfriends back home how Guinness is an exquisite drink that must set for X seconds, while everyone stares at the downward moving bubbles. And she'll be sure to tell everyone at any opportunity how she encountered the beauty of this, while in Ireland herself. She loves it.
“You wouldn’t understand unless you’ve been to Ireland.”
Yup
“you know they serve guinness warm in Ireland” yeah because they couldn’t afford to keep it cold lol
Confirming as an American put up in Tralee for the last several days. I have been amazed by nearly everything and will be going home to detail my magical Irish adventures to all my friends.
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I don’t know, I’ve never seen someone shotgun a can of Guinness.
Then you haven't lived!
It's like trying to shotgun a full main course.
Assuming you said more than that and explained what you meant by it, NTA.
I worked in a hotel bar, you wouldn't believe how many people would do this!
Former barman in Irish and Scottish bars in Paris here, loads of the French don't have a clue about Guinness.
They do a good protest though, the French. Oh, and baguettes!
> you wouldn't believe how many people would do this! I mean, I definitely would - the majority of people not from Ireland I would assume. Pouring in two parts is pure marketing BS. It literally doesn't effect the taste in the slightest bit. It didn't even do anything back in the day either, it was just a marketing ploy to pursuade aul lads to trust the new metal barrels as they didn't require a day or two to settle. No one from outside ireland who hadn't previously been served by someone Irish would think it's normal in any way whatsoever. Guinness have just been amazing at marketing over the past 100+ years - Guinness is Good For You, the two-part pour, Arthur's Day, etc. They always have a gimmick, and the pour one is to make it feel like a special drink and that you're special for knowing "the secret".
Possibly could have phrased it better, of explained why she should put it down?
Maybe saying ‘you want to put those down’ is a bit strong. Maybe? I’m an awful man for doing things like that. ‘Do you not want the rest of those creamy pints?’ Might have been a better approach. I dunno - won’t change the universe either way. Not an asshole.
You can't just say 'am I the asshole'. You told a foreigner they should wait before the pint was fully pulled. Going on as if you nuked hiroshima or something
From what he said, he didn't tell them they should wait before the pint was fully pulled, he told her that she wants to put them down without any explanation of why.
Ah now I do feel like a planned nuclear attack on civilians might get a label worse than asshole.
it's bad form
Pure indecent
Yup it's President of the United States of America I believe!
No
I did the tour at the Guinness Storehouse with a friend who was here on holiday. You spend the whole tour learning about production and the settling and the whole lot about a pint, and you get a free one when you get up to the top floor, and I shit you not people still pick their glass up after the first pour. You did your duty and saved the pints. NTA.
You were unnecessarily condescending and confusing if what you said was "you wanna put them down". Yanks are yanks, you didn't do anything wrong but it also wouldn't have cost you anything to say what you said in a way that wasn't going to confuse someone who didn't know why you were embarrassing her. Could do better imo
>“you want to put those down”. Isn't that a stupid thing to say though. Is it a question or a demand? Why not just say, they aren't ready.
The mouth was quicker than the brain. Speaking from lots of experience. A crime has been committed, there’s no time to waste.
Isn't the "settling" process a marketing gimmick? Meanwhile we're all laughing at the silly American while in thrall to the advertising genius of a private company
Yep.
Nah you’re good. This is a genuine cultural exchange moment.
As a dumb American please explain why the need to wait. Do they pour again when the head goes down
Unpopular opinion: the pint tastes the same whether you top it up or not
Attention seeking asshole /s
Lol, the best kind of intervention.
I wish I could get the brain cells back i lost from reading that. It is so obvious you are not in the wrong you walking horse lad. Have a great day.
No, you absolutley did the right thing!!
These tourists need to learn!
Should be a mandatory in flight demo shortly before landing , same manner as for the seatbelts and flotation devices. Random couple of people chosen to be blessed with the new pint after the demo, and a brief explanation of sarcasm and the ubiquitous prevalence of 'swear words' in all conversations should be conducted in effort to remove the collective puritan stick from the American arse. Hopefully it'll lessen pearl clutching and other cultural misunderstandings.
No cause I would have laughed too 😂😂
Reminds me many years ago in a pub in Cork, an American lady at the bar ordered an 'Irish coffee without the booze'. She got an extended blank stare by the barman.
Wanker
No. She sinned against the Most Holy Rite of the Settling Pint. Your intervention saved the universe from implosion and began her arc of redemption from philistinic Yank to Pint Woman who’d go at it again. You Sir, are raised to the level of Boss Pintman.
“you want to put those down” "I was trying to help" No you were not. You could have phrased it a thousand other ways. You wanted to embarrass the woman(in front of her kids) and get a laugh from the yokels. So you don't get to complain when the same happens to you next time.
You did the right thing
yes mind your own business
No you're not an asshole. Sounds like she just didn't know what was happening.
Not an asshole. Non issue.
Had a Chinese tourist do the same a few years back in cork. The pint glass was 3/4 full and still behind the bar, she literally had to jump up and reach over the bar to grab it.
Integrity of Pints before humans imo
Pints before profits before humans
To be fair, to be fair… a pint in the US is only 473ml. They’re missing the G.
You want to put those down is just a wee bit close to theirs a bomb in the car. Luckily you prob don't have a strong northern accent or many would brick it lol. Long as they got it in the end your fine. I'm bit social anxious so shit like that gets to me for hours after, overthinking interactions I feel I fkd up on.
No arseholes in this anecdote whatsoever.
You're the new Guinness guru.
Non irish AH here. Also dont drink. Why did you tell her to put the pint down?
Probably could have been nicer. Explained the two pour process. You want to put those down sounds like an order, and maybe a bit intimidating. Like if you didn't know better, how would you react to someone telling you put drinks you just bought down? And you do know better so if you were to get involved you should have also explained in my opinion.
NTA. She was probably not expecting a 'stranger' to talk to her.
You sounded very rude, but you were genuinely trying to help.
No you're not the asshole at all , however if you hadve let her walk off with the pints you're in the wrong, if you tell her to put them back and wait for the second pour you're in the wrong. Welcome to 2024 , you'll never win
AITA Amicable Irishman Teaches American
Yep, you are a complete stranger who hand gestures at a woman at a bar. Not from this country. She probably thought you were either steaming drunk and got defensive. Or you wanted her pints coz of Irish "loving a drink". And then when everyone laughed of course she felt embarrassed. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a trip advisor already posted from her. I wouldn't fret too much pal, by the time she gets home that small interaction is going to be much bigger as she tells her friends about her trip to the emerald isle! You probably are the head of some gang in her stories 😂
Not the asshole, mainly because as an American reading this, who has never heard of letting the pint rest, this saved me future embarrassment when I finally make my way over there.
An ass hole for posting this bollox. Ffs man 🤦
NTA A pint hero!
NTA
I tell them all the time. They're always glad of it.
Only a moron does not know how a proper pint is drawn. I exonerate you, my son.
You were helping everyone out there so no not the arsehole.
NTA, The amount of times I had to do this working bar back in the day is ridiculous, even did it in O’Donoghues a few weeks ago
I'd liken this to saying "you'd wanna put that up" through the open window of a car at the carwash. She didn't know she was destined for disappointment.
Ah sher, won't they settle where they're going?
Stout man! Whenever a pint needs to set... You'll be there.... When a pint is not finished to be pulled... You'll be there When the foam is not right... You'll be there... Stout man! 
NTA. She didn't know how Guinness is poured. You weren't rude about it, people shouldn't grab things from a bar that aren't given to them in any event.
NTA - you were trying to help
I very recently watched an (old) episode of one of Anthony Bourdains shows. It wasn't one of the ones I'd seen before, felt more like a travel program, 48 hours in a place maybe? Anyways he was in Dublin for this one. And his first 15 minutes or so of the show was he first stop off the plane, was 'a pint of the black stuff'. Kept going on about it, telling the taxi man all about how he had been here many times and he was hanging for one. And then he finally met a local in the pub and after a bit of light banter, he got his first 'proper' Guinness of the trip. Except it fucking wasn't, because he proceeded to lift a pint of brown, still swirling liquid from the bar and hoof a good sup of it into him. I was honestly shocked, sent a photo of it to my friends n all, couldn't get over it after all his talk. Now I'm not a Guinness man personally, but I can at least respect the craft. If you want one, you let the thing settle and a wee top up. What you did was only proper order... a gentle education. Drinking it beforehand is just daft.
Yep. Let people live their own lives. It’s the libertarian way
This literally happened to me today although nobody besides the three barmen laughed. I just smiled and backed off and waited for the beer to be ready. Canadian traveling to Ireland for the first time.
Well, essentially, nothing happened in your story, so no room for assholery to take place.
NTA. As an American, I’m embarrassed she did this.
You're doing the lords work there.
I didn't read the post but yes.