I absolutely love a good pint of Guinness. Unlike your average drink, Guinness tastes different from one establishment to the next, sometimes even from one tap to the next. I have no issue with this, as long as the pint is up to a certain standard. What I do take issue with is an establishment in Ireland serving a paying customer an excuse of a pint of Guinness. What really annoys me is how one bar can fail to pour me a decent creamy pint when I know I can absolutely guarantee such quality in another establishment. Why does a bar say they serve Guinness when they are actually serving a joke of an excuse for a pint?

These things really piss me off. I think I should be able to ask a barman to tell me if the Guinness is decent in his establishment & if he tells me it is, charges me full whack & then a non-creamy head dissipates after 2 minutes, I should be allowed get a pint of something else on the house. Drinking establishments are actually misleading the Guinness-drinking public by serving below-par Guinness; they’re not selling Guinness, they’re selling shite. It has now got to the point that if I know an establishment sells brutal pints, I just have a beer instead!

I’m fed up with this & I’ve decided to take a stand with this blog. From now on I’m going to rate an establishment’s pintability . If you’re going to serve Guinness, you deserve to be judged on it by someone who really cares.