Actually, I had about 8 of them… and damn, were they good. I think I’m going to have to make that my beer of choice from now on! 
I do not find Guinness completely revolting myself.
Mmmmmm…Guinness. When I went to Ireland a few years back, I couldn’t get enough. It seems different from the Guinness here in the US…which is still mighty good.
I have been known to indulge in the odd Guinness or two myself, but what I really like is Kilkenny. Or Murphy’s Red, depending on what’s available.
I also once drank 1/4 a quart of Cool Colt, so you know I have refined taste buds.
Welcome to my world. Enjoy your stay.
Bless yer warm heart, child. Always good to hear of another convert to stout. I’d also suggest trying out Murphy’s Irish Stout if you find Guinness a good choice. You ever get to DC, I’ll buy you a couple pints of each in places what knows how to pour 'em properly!
My favorite Guinness story:
A few years ago while attending the big Irish festival in Burbank (a major annual event - the Grand National something-or-other) and ordered a Guinness at one of the many beer kiosks. After spending a few minutes assuring the fellow behind the bar that yes, I really wanted somehting that dark he started to pour. Two-thirds of a glass was in the clear plastic cup when he stopped, looked at the perfectly normal sight of a newly-poured Guinness, frowned, muttered “something must be wrong with this tap” and threw it down the sink before I could protest. I was shocked. Could this man have never poured a Guinness before? At the biggest Irish event around? Yes, it was true, all he had been serving for two days was Bud, Coors, adn an occasional Harp. It took the vigorous protests of both my Husband and myself to assure him that nothing was wrong with the tap and finally get out stout (at the wrong temp, but oh well). We didn’t stay long at the event.
BTW, if you can find it,Watney’s Cream Stout is also very nice. Makes a good, satisfying breakfast.
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Oh yees, come join the Dark Side…
Ah, Guinness- just eight days ago, I received another pint glass from my father as a birthday present.
Join us, join us. And try to stay clear of Murphy’s and Boddington’s – cheap knockoffs. And if you can’t get it from a tap, make sure you get the cans with the magic floating widget inside.
You’ve got to love a drink that includes a magic floating widget.
Stout is great stuff, and a nice foaming pint of it at fifty degrees or so in a quiet pub on a foggy, overcast afternoon is mighty nice…
but I still maintain there’s no beer experience to match a good chilled Pilsener on a hot summer day.
Nooo, Ike, the best beer experience is a nice cool KristalWeiss with one round, not wedge, round of lemon on a hot summer day.
Or banana beer, but I have given up on converting this group of heathens to the wonder that is a properly prepared banana beer.
If we’re talking about Guiness Extra Stout, I’ve been recently converted.
The first time I tased GES, I had it in a bottle. Suffice it to say, it tasted like something that was unfit for human consumption.
Years later, I tried it from one of those new-fangled can deals. I had it ice cold and poured into a pilsner glass. It was so damn good!
I recently had a black and tan. It wasn’t bad, either.
A plaintive cry is heard echoing across the landscape: “KristalWeiss! KristalWeiss!”.
Jeez, tater, that’s the beer that started me down the road towards a discriminating beer palate. I was a HS exchange student in Bonn ‘bout 11 1/2 years ago. My host-siblings were eager to introduce me, a beer virgin, to the best their country offered. I’ve been lookin’ for a decent state-side substitute ever since. Of course, it’s possible my recollections of what KW tastes like have been lost in the intervening decade. Guess I’ll have to return to the Fatherland. “Hello, Lufthansa?”
Oh, and tater? Knock back an apfelkorn for me, please? Mmmmm
Guinness is proof that God exists, and wants us to be happy.
(With apologies to Ben Franklin.)
Damn, Am I the only one who does not like Guinness? When I was in Belgium it was one of the many beers I tried at the Englishmen’s beckoning on the trip. Guinness was terrible. I had to choke down the 2 pints I had. no thanks guys.
I wasn’t sure if I’d like it because I’m usually a Bud Light/Coors Light gal (my apologies) and am always leary of trying new beers. But, I figured, what the hell. Occasionally I’ll drink Samuel Adams or have a couple of Mickey’s but now I think I’ve found the nectar of the Gods. I’m hooked!!
Guinness was the first beer i ever had. I don’t regret it.
Of course, it probably contributed a good bit to my beer snobbery. To this day i don’t know firsthand what Bud tastes like. I don’t mind not knowing. 
Another virgin no more! And by your story, Rachelle, it sounds like you lost it in an orgy. What a wonderful introduction into all that is good and pure. It is now your duty to deflower all the remaining virgins with that dark, heavy body and creamy head.
I may have to leave work early and celebrate by lifting a pint of Guinness.
Never tried guinness from the can with the magical floating doohickie, I’ll look for one soon.
What’s the opinion of the teeming masses herein assembled on Mackieson’s Triple Stout? A friend turned me on to this one a few years ago, and I loved it! I don’t do too many too often, but as an occasional special treat, it’s great.
Life’s to short to drink cheap beer.