Gideon Hallett wrote:
Guinness is OK, as long as it's properly served; which means *freshly* poured and cool, not cold. But there are any number of better stouts, IMO.
The Carlow Brewing Company (http://www.carlowbrewing.com/home.htm) does a *very* good stout - O'Hara's (voted the world's best stout in 2000).
The Porter House (in Dublin, Cork and London) (http://www.porterhousebrewco.com/) do some very good stouts as well; Oyster Stout and Plain Porter.
O'Hanlon's (in London) also do a very good home-produced Port Stout.
Try any of them, if you get the chance; they do show Guinness up for what it is; the stout equivalent of Coors. ======================================== Brooklyn Brewery's Black Chocolate Stout is interesting. There are also many "local" micro-breweries making very good Stouts here in the states.
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