Red Guinness

[Shropshire Seagull]

I quite like a stout.

Murphys is good - slightly chocolatey taste
Guinness is okay (extra cold available for those warm summer days)
Mackesons are nice occasionally as a treat with Sunday lunch
Harveys bottles of Sweet Sussex Stout - awesome anytime

But what is Red Guinness all about?
Not seen many watering holes selling it - is it draught only on can you get it in tins/bottles from the supermarkets?

And what does it taste of?

 

[Pot noodles for everyone]

If only NSC had a retired publican to answer this for us. Alas, we shall never know.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

Isn't red Guinness just guinness with a shot of blackcurrant in?

 

[pishhead]

Isn't red Guinness just guinness with a shot of blackcurrant in?

Thats Guinness and black, red Guinness was a completely seperate drink that was trialled a few years back.

 

[Snowy]

It's like Guinness but just a bit lighter. Some people don't like the supposed thickness of the original so Red is for those namby pambys who can't stomach the real stuff - unlike ME! I've seen it in Brighton...

 

[coventrygull]

Red Guinness is an ale not a stout.

Harveys extra double stout. Thats a proper stout

 

[Barry Izbak]

Red Guinness is an excellent ale and the nearest thing you'll get to the much missed Beamish Red that I haven't seen anywhere for bloody ages. I know that my friends in the CAMRA brigade would turn their noses up at it, but its the best mass produced ale currently out there IMO. I believe Red Guinness is on sale in the Font.

 

[Scotty Mac]

they sell it in our su, and it is not at all popular

REAL guinness all the way

 

[Robbie G]

they sell it in our su, and it is not at all popular

REAL guinness all the way

Real ALE all the way

 

[OzMike]

If your ever out this way try the Tooheys old ale, tastes a lot like Harveys old.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

I had a red Guinners once...didnt like it.

 

[NMH]

Boddingtons for me, please

 

[Mackenzie]

Beamish Stout

 

[jakarta]

Boddingtons for me, please

In the 1970's my favourite beer - in fact my first memorable pint in Swinton West Manchester Summer 1976 while ever so slightly underage.

Not been brewed at Strangeways (Manchester) for many a year - I don't even know if it's available as proper draught ale anymore - the canned stuff in Supermarkets is decidedly NOT what I drank way back when.

Never mind I have got into Hogs Back/Arundel and especially Harveys so I will drown my sorrows with soft southern flat beer.

Oh and Red Guiness doesn't compare with any of the aforementioned......