and what is it for?
I bought a six pack of bottled Guinness a few days ago (I will be sticking to tap from now on-- this stuff shows little resemblance to the thick, earthy drink I find in bars) and inside each bottle is a piece of, I think, plastic. Why?
Call me weird, but I don’t like finding things floating in my beer.
When this article was written they did not have draught in a bottle. The device is similar for the bottle version.
If you are drinking Guinness Stout in a can or bottle, then you should have a very similar experience to the tap. The plastic is the “widget” that releases the nitrogen that makes your Guinees a draft even if it did not come out of a tap.
The glass bottles of Guinness are Guiness EXTRA Stout, and it is a different beer. If you are drinking Guiness from a glass bottle, it ain’t like the draft…or draught if you will.
http://www.guinness.com/guinness/en_US/knowing/pearls/faqs/0,6415,12687267_126325,00.html
(the plastic bottles are regular stout and have the widget…the glass bottles do not…just to clarify)
The widget is good, smee thinks. Stirs up the carbo-laden breakfast. Guiness is food (quoting a sign I saw in a Irish pub)
of course 8oz minus the “widget” means you get screwed out of some hard earned and purchased alcomohol.
Well I’ve got a bottle of Guinness Draught-- says so right here painted on the bottle-- and it’s got a widget. And no, it is not the same experience at all. This is thin and watery and, I don’t know how to describe it-- much more lagery. Perhaps I should have gotten the stout instead.
Guinness Draught IS the Stout, but you have to open it and pour it properly to experience the elixir. My ex-wife had no sense of humor, but she made two or three funnies by accident. I weaned her off Bud Light and into Guinness Stout over three years, and she called it “Irish Slim-Fast”.
How did you know I was drinking it straight from the bottle UncleBill? If it’s as good as it is on tap when I pour it into a glass I may use a spoon.
Your description of the nectar as
showed me SOMETHING was wrong here. I’ve never had the Draught in the bottle (and likely won’t) but with the can, you followed the directions or got poor quality stuff.
The widgets have been around for several years, though only used by Guinness in cans until recently. I haven’t experienced a bottled “widget”, but the canned ones have always worked pretty well, as far as I’m concerned. Other UK / Irish makers have used “nitro” widgets in their beer, including some types other than stouts - Boddington’s, for instance. The only American brewer I know of which packaged a beer with a nitro-widget was microbrewer Pyramid.
Oi vey! Guinness drank straight from the bottle?
Gods be blessed, Biggirl has committed a heinous, evil sin.
Let us pray.
You shall be redeemed by saying 5 Hail Marys, 7 Our Fathers, and drinking 2 Guinness PROPERLY!
Another Guinness rule…never drink one. A bird cannot fly on but one wing. Two is the minimum.
The bottle variety is supposed to “enjoyed” directly form the bottle. The widget is slightly different. There is definite difference in the flavor of the bottle vs. can variety.
Do yourself a favor, get the cans or drink it from the tap.
Cite for drinking from the bottle:
Alas, there is no beautiful creamy head inside my bottle.
Did that sound vaguely suggestive?