Sexual connotations aside, do you drink the froth (ok I’m just making it worse :rolleyes: ) or leave it at the bottom of the glass?
I drink some of it. It’s not like they give a straw to suck up the last little foamy bits at the bottom, anyhow.
Mmmm…Guinness milkshakes…
there’s a place called Maud’s on O’Connell St (Dublin) that makes Guiness ice cream. But their Peaches and Cream is divine.
Personally, I drink the head. I like it.
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[Beavis] Heh, heh. He said “consume the head.” Heh, heh. I wish someone would consume my head. Heh, heh.
Guiness should be consumed completely. Leaving the head is just wrong. Wrong I say!
Lorena Bobbitt might throw the head away, but when it comes to Guinness I drink the whole thing.
I drink the head, and any other part of it that might insist on remaining in the glass.
I’ll drink whatever comes out of the glass. I heard once that you can write your initial or whatever in the froth when it’s full and it’ll still be there at the bottom when you finish. Anyone else heard this, I have never succesfully accomplished the task.
Guiness – on tap, that is – is too damn good to waste any part of it.
As Dad used to say when asked if he wanted water in his whiskey, “They put too much water in it already.”
[slight hijack] Whenever my younger brother orders a pint and finds that it’s not filled up to his liking, he asks the bartender “Do you think you could fit a shot of whiskey in here?” If the bartender says yeah, he comes back with “Then fill it up with beer!”[/slight hijack]
I doubt this is true. Competent bartenders will put a shamrock design on the top of a proper pint of drawn Guinness; in my experience, the shamrock is gone by the time you get to the bottom. Maybe it works if you down your Guinness in one go, but why waste the enjoyment of the pint for the sake of a cheap trick?
Having tried Guinness in the US and detested it, it took a bit of work to get me to drink it in Dublin last week, but figured what the hey. It was created there, they must know what they’re doing.
I loved it!
Drank the head 'n all. Was the best drink I’d had in a long time.
i always draw a smiley face in the head with my finger before i drink any of the pint. a habit i’ve inherited from my father.
and no, it’s not there at the end!
but yes, you keep drinking until there’s nothing left to drink.
i always draw a k in the head (my first initial), and no, it never lasts until the end…and i, too, consume everything in the glass…too tasty to waste
Guiness MUST be fully consumed. Head and all - Frequently and repeatedly - pint after pint after pint … 
Nope. For some reason, I have never liked the foam on ANY drink.
Yeah, yeah, I’m an infidel, I know.
Thank you so much. A couple times, I thought I could make out a shamrock design in the foam, but I thought maybe it was just my imagination. The best guess I could come up with was that a Guinness tap had a shamrock design incorporated into it. But since I didn’t see it all the time, I thought I was halucinating. Thanks for letting me know I wasn’t crazy (or drunk).
Drain the glass.
BTW the Shamrock thing is rarely done in Ireland… it’s just for tourists. In a pub in London I got a Guinness with a harp drawn on the top. Now that was talent.
Either that’s really damn impressive, or someone’s really bad at shamrocks. 
No, it’s not “incorporated into the tap”; the bartender just draws it by moving the glass under the last bit of stout being poured. It’s not a big deal (compared to, say, getting a full pint measure and a clean glass), but the attention to detail is a nice touch.
As jjimm says, the shamrock thing is a touristy gimmick but if you get a really good creamy pint, it will last to the end (if a little distorted with all the stretching).
irishgirl has the absolute inalienable right to follow family tradition by drawing smiley faces on her pints of porter. However, my youth was plagued by young ones who felt that they had the absolute inalienable right to draw smiley faces on my pints - just the thought of it has reactivated my facial tic.
Maybe they had Parkinson’s…?
Sorry.