extra cold guiness

[turienzo's lovechild]

does anyone ACTUALLY choose to drink this?!

i like a nice pint of the black stuff, but extra cold is f***ing horrid

it's like guiness....but shitter

some pubs even seem to serve the extra cold stuff as default, so you actually have to specify that you want the one that tastes nicer

 

[ATFC Seagull]

Extra Cold Guinness is basically for places that serve shit Guinness - so you basically can't taste it as much. Interesting to note than in Ireland there is no such thing.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

i'm aware of my TYPO before any of you pretentious pieces of shit make an attempt at being clever

 

[clapham_gull]

I really like the cold stuff.

Some things you "aren't supposed to" drink chilled are sometimes rather nice and definately nicer than say a pint of Carling.

I was in Spain a few years ago, in a seaside resort where the Spanish go on holiday.

Thought I'd go for what the locals were drinking, seemed to be lapping up this chilled red drink.

I assume it was some sort of spritzer, but it wasn't. It was red wine served ice ice cold and bloody nice it was too.

 

[REDLAND]

Isn't Guinners cold like 1 degree less than normal Guinners, if it ain't nice you should change ya pub not the Guinners

 

[Arthur]

it's like guiness....but shitter

It IS Guinness! EXACTLY the same as the stuff that comes out of the normal Guinness pump just a few degrees cooler.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

It IS Guinness! EXACTLY the same as the stuff that comes out of the normal Guinness pump just a few degrees cooler.

that's what i mean?

guinness....but shitter

 

[NMH]

It does what it says on the pump - Guinness but colder.
Why would it disguise poor tasting beer? If you like Guinness, that's exactly what it is!

 

[Amsterdam Albion]

Every drink has an optimal temperature. People may prefer the taste at different temperatures. I don't like my guinness too cold. Not sure what the optimal temperature is for jagermeister but I only want it ice ice cold (unless dropped into red bull then I don't care).

 

[Cian]

Interesting to note than in Ireland there is no such thing.

It did exist, for a while... the whole "[anything] Extra Cold" seems to only work in the UK; as soon as you cross the border here Tennants Extra Cold taps appear also.

 

[BensGrandad]

The Extra cold Guinness was brought about by the fact that the younger generation want cold beer and had they not followed suit in 15 - 20 years time when all the proper Guinness drinkers have passed on there would be nobody to drink Guinness. FACT.

 

[pishhead]

The Extra cold Guinness was brought about by the fact that the younger generation want cold beer and had they not followed suit in 15 - 20 years time when all the proper Guinness drinkers have passed on there would be nobody to drink Guinness. FACT.

It shows how much those lot at Diageo know, when real ale is now one of the only growth drink markets.
Just like red Guinness does anyone ever see that these days.

 

[Cian]

It shows how much those lot at Diageo know, when real ale is now one of the only growth drink markets.
Just like red Guinness does anyone ever see that these days.

Their sales figures (going downwards at a faster rate than other products) and market research on who's drinking it give them enough knowledge to verify how much they know.

Red Guinness never made it on the market here either; suspect it'd eat in to Smithwicks sales mostly, which would just be shuffling drinkers from one end of the company to the other.

 

[BensGrandad]

It shows how much those lot at Diageo know, when real ale is now one of the only growth drink markets.
Just like red Guinness does anyone ever see that these days.

Extra Cold Guinness was competing with the lagers for sales to the younger generation. The idea is get them hooked young and they will drink it for years. The growth market in real ale is down to the middle age going back to their origins in drinking not youngsters changing over.

If you look at Guinness through one glass into another all Guinness is red. That is push a slim jim type glass into a pint Nonik and look at the colour of the Guinness then you will see that it is Red or has a red tinge.

When I first entered the licensed trade , early 60s, we only had bottled Guinness and had 2 shelves one for today and one getting to room temperature for tomorrow. There was always one shelf full for tomorrow.

 

[Cian]

When I first entered the licensed trade , early 60s, we only had bottled Guinness and had 2 shelves one for today and one getting to room temperature for tomorrow. There was always one shelf full for tomorrow.

Guinness Draught had only been introduced on a limited release a few years before you'd have started off; I can remember the older set here drinking bottles as late as the 1990s so I can't imagine it was too popular to start off with!

 

[pishhead]

Their sales figures (going downwards at a faster rate than other products) and market research on who's drinking it give them enough knowledge to verify how much they know.

Red Guinness never made it on the market here either; suspect it'd eat in to Smithwicks sales mostly, which would just be shuffling drinkers from one end of the company to the other.

Any idea why Smithwicks isn't available over in England? Maybe it is but I can't say i've ever seen it.

 

[BensGrandad]

Draught Guinness first came into England in about 1962/3 ish at about the same time as Whitbread Tankard and other keg bitters. Draught Lager came to prominence in about 1968/9. Some pubs and clubs still stock bottled Guinness which I drink with 1/2 bitter, black & tan as it is known, but they changed the ingredients of bottled Guinness, which made it last longer and enabled them to put a longer best before date on it, they called it Guinness Export, before reverting back to the name of Guinness Original which is what the supermarkets now sell in bottles.

 

[manilaseagull]

I really like the cold stuff.

Some things you "aren't supposed to" drink chilled are sometimes rather nice and definately nicer than say a pint of Carling.

I was in Spain a few years ago, in a seaside resort where the Spanish go on holiday.

Thought I'd go for what the locals were drinking, seemed to be lapping up this chilled red drink.

I assume it was some sort of spritzer, but it wasn't. It was red wine served ice ice cold and bloody nice it was too.

Drink Red wine here you get offered the choice of chilled or room temp.


Guiness extra cold or normal...memories...no draft in Philippines

 

[csider]

i have NEVER drank a pint of Guiness......

 

[Arthur]

Any idea why Smithwicks isn't available over in England? Maybe it is but I can't say i've ever seen it.

Walked past O'Neils at the top of Carnaby Street the other day and there was a sign out the front claiming to be the only chain in England to stock it or have it on draft or some such nonsense. Wasn't really paying attention as you are as about as likely to find me in a Treverspoons as you are one of their "pubs".