That’s the blurb. Distance from keg to tap and frequency of line cleaning (eg done more frequently by bar staff than guinness, even how glasses are cleaned) all has an impact too.
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The distance from barrell to tap can definitely affect taste
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Another questions for auld stocks like yourself and the @anon67715551 of the forum
What was guinness like back in the day before every pub had keg rooms? I assume pints would be going dead and crusty as fuck in short order in busy warm pubs? Did the standard vary hugely? As pint money was tighter would lads drink any auld slop
Tom Maher had the best pint in the town and he had no refrigeration. Also we drank a lot of bottled beer in those days.
Stritches in Clonlara always had a tap of room temp Guinness in the bar until they remodelled a few years back. A good few of the auld boys would only drink it and had no time for the extra cold. Others would want the extra cold pint but the back fill done off the room temp keg.
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Ya that was supposedly common out our way too "half and half " I think they called it.
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Lad in our local used to insist on cars of bulmers at room temp. A pure animal
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A lot of lads like pint bottles of stout or cider like that. A Danno they are often referred to
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They would if you left em I shpose
As @TreatyStones says the half n’ half was the way to go. Dannos and half ones were the order of the day though well into the late 70’s. It wasn’t until the emergence of Sally O’Brien with her pint of Harp that we fully grasped the whole draught pint thing though in the mid 70’s. By this time all the established hostelries had cold storage or keg rooms.
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I’ve seen them asking for the same in Setrights in cratloe number of years back. Smashing pint there
Pint bottles of Guinness in Wicklow Town are still drank warm off the shelf. Though I see less and less of them at it
Sally O Brien was early - mid 80s bucko.
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We’d have drunk large bottles of Bass, Carling, Phoenix and Guinness. Off the shelf, Johnny, and a small glass.
I was at a 21st somewhere near Toomevara more than a decade ago and they were drinking pint bottles of smithwichs which the bar kept out in a chest. All the auld lads at the bar were drinking them. I’ll have to try one says I. Fucking disgusting
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You weren’t used to it.
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Like a cigarette smoker trying a pipe and saying it didn’t taste right
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Large bottles of stout from the cooler and a clean, fresh half-pint glass are the business once in a while.
I’d murder a scatter of them now if I had them.
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I have a couple of large bottles in the fridge this long time. I might drink them and stock up again in Ardkeen at the weekend
“Large bottle of ale off the shelf”