You’ve Been Pouring Guinness All Wrong 

Do that here in ireland and watch how quickly you'll be wearing that so called perfect pint.

"So, the ideal glass would be kind of martini shaped" I've got to give him credit, he's found a new way for an Englishman to be controversial with the Irish.

As an Irish barman, so much of this video hurt to watch. I won't even list. Jesus Christ.

The wait is part of the experience. It creates that foamy head and gives you a sense like you aren't drinking just a boring old beer.

Title misleading. You’re simplifying “better” to a single variable: “speed of settling”. The martini glass is objectively worse in every other metric.

I freaking dare someone to ask for Guinness in a martini glass at an Irish pub with a straight face! That would be priceless! 😂😂😂

Never order a Guinness in a rush, if you're too impatient to wait for the drink to settle, then you're in too much of a hurry to enjoy it

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Order the 2nd as soon as you get your first. Then repeat as necessary.

No.1 the waiting period is miniscule. No.2 the martini version has basically no head. No.3 the guinness your drinking is second rate anyway due to the drop in quality outside Ireland

Who drinks beer from a straw, I don't know if we should be listening to this guy.

There's nothing wrong with the current Guinness glass. The settling time is by design and also looks cool. If you can't wait a minute for it to settle, then you're probably an alcoholic. Furthermore, its not like you even have to wait for it to completely settle before you drink it. You can drink it while it's settling if you're that impatient.

I’ve talked to many bartenders, and several have told me that it’s all about the wait. Most stouts and porters are supposed to be drank at a temperature closer to room temp. The shape of the glass slows down the process of settling in order to help the delicious elixir reach it’s ideal temp.

When some one tells you they would rather get thier beer faster than have it taste amazing is not a beer fan.

So, you order your next pint before you have finished the current one, that is how we do it here in Ireland. Timing, takes a bit of practice but once you got it, it works. Also pubs in Ireland pre-pour Guinness pints in anticipation of people ordering them, so you normally see a rake of pints resting on the counter waiting for top up.

I was okay with everything until the last thing he said about drinking beer out of a straw

'marketing' has nothing to do with it. As a beer brewer, I've seen that there are marked taste and aroma differences with good quality beers and stouts when served in the right glass. Good beers are wasted if drunk from the bottle or standard pub glass - designed for safety and longevity. Guinness works fine in the conical glass and needs settling time. It does taste even better in a stout specific glass or a large tulip/wine shape, and this can overcome much of the "Guinness doesn't travel" argument. Try it in a pub. It'll start a conversation if nothing else...

This video is so ridiculous

Imagine thinking that waiting 2 minutes for your pint was unreasonable.

When I saw the title, I assumed that this would be a method that produced a better Guinness than usual, not just a faster one.

Fair Bloody Dinkum the waiting for your Guinness to settle is all part of the ritual: it builds the anticipation of when you finally get to drink and savour this wonderful nectar

The way your man talks about how he’d prefer to get his Guinness served is reminiscent of Cromwell’s treatment of the Irish. Respect the pint.

What they don't take into account is the head. You need to pour it tilted to avoid any bubbles from forming at the top. Pour it too steep and they form immediately at the surface, too tilted and they splash onto the head. I find the perfect Guinness is poured just at the tip of the rising stout, adjust it by gradually lowering and tilting the glass according to the rise. By doing so you still have to wait to settle it, but the Guinness will darken much faster and prettier than any other way. Plus your head will be paper white and smooth as a baby's bottom!

Love hearing an American talk about pouring Guinness

Ok so no taste difference just a time difference. Ya see, what we do in Ireland is pre-empt the wait so order the pint quicker than you usually would a lager for example. Pretty stupid to keep on getting caught out by that wait.

All Due Respect to the Engineer Talking about the Physics, and Formulas, As an Irish Barman, Someone coming into asking a Bar, ( Any Bar ) asking for Guinness in a Martini Glass, is Gonna Be told here to Go... if you don't like Guinness, as it comes from the Tap, or the Tulip Glass, and without Blackcurrant etc... Don't Drink it. There's plenty more Options.

I'm a die-hard Guinness drinking, and I can tell by taste when it is poured wrong, it will always be the double-pour for me

Its higher surface area, bubbles dissipate faster because there's more room, idk why you need math for this, but like, *i could never explain this with numbers.* You men are geniuses. Thank you all and Gods bless.

My whole life was a lie

And yall really didnt tell us how to pour, this video was basically talked about the difference between carbon dioxide and nitrogen within beer

dude you're never gonna convince me to drink beer out of a martini glass.

I want those five minutes of my life back.

So you're telling us on how to pour a beer because of bubbles *_2018_*

Most pubs serve stouts too cold anyway. A stout should be served around 55 degrees, but due to refrigeration limits most places serve the stout at the same temperature that they server all their other beers. Any extra amount of time I have to wait for a stout to "settle" is perfectly fine because I have to wait for it to warm up as well.

Martini glass speed of settling leads to shallow thin head on the beer!!! Sacrilege! We ancient Irish Guinness drinkers all used to order our next pints 1/2 to 3/4s way down our first pints! Where’s the waiting now boyo’s?!!!🤣

-.-" im gonna go with the usual glass. Drinking Guinness with a martini glass... let alone, with a straw... is just ridiculous! hahaha

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There's so much more to enjoy from a properly poured pint in the right style of glass (not necessarily Guinness-branded). The head didn't look very present in the martini glass, and aside from not providing the fluffiness everybody wants atop a pint of any beer, it would probably make it too heavy-bodied. And I get bloated easily. Long story short, I'd like my drink quickly, but not if that would affect its quality as much as this suggestion seemingly would. Plenty of beer traditions are silly and unnecessary, but lots have very good reasons behind them. Also, I thought the variation in density was due to Draught being 75% nitrogenated and 25% carbonated...?

I think they "buried the lead". Making you wait is marketing. 1) You appreciate the delayed gratification more than the instant gratification. 2) When you order a Guinness there is this "exclusive six step branded process" that they have to go through which obviously means it is a better beer. because of the exclusivity etc. It takes longer because it helps them sell more beer!!! This is not a comment about the beer. It is a comment about the marketing, I love that marketing because if nothing else it made Guinness be one of the few stouts readily available in the US before the craft beer boom. Now, I am going to go test the affect that various shapes of glasses have on Guinness beer. You know, for science.

As an Irish man i see Guinness being served in a Martian glass an insult to years of tradition and would never be served like that in its home nation

The bubbles happen in a standard pint glass too. I don’t think he’s had very many pints of Guinness.

A UK man can’t talk about Guinness

I think people are to impatient for a beer. Pouring a Gunniess or Murphy's is a art that most people don't appreciate. I rather wait because I love watching the Cascade effect from the beer because it's one of few that do it which makes it it's own unique style.

How to drink Guinness right according to these guys: get rid of the head. Doesn’t matter if it’s what makes Guinness great, I want my beer now!

Unfortunately I (from the states) did not know of this method of pouring prior to going to Europe. I don’t think they even do it like this is Boston

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imagine seeing an old guy walking around the bar drinking "beer" in a "gigantic" martini glass 🤔

A really good bartender will know when you are going to need another beer, and prepare one in advance. My guy is top notch. A fresh one almost always arrives just as I finish the one in hand. I tell you, these guys are never paid enough.

Are we just not gonna remember that nitrogen is heavier than co2 causing the nitrogen bubbles to sink?

Good things come to those who wait. If they can ferment it and allow it to condition for over a month maybe two, I can wait 2 minutes to drink it proper. Respect Arthur.

Do you’re saying it defies the laws of Fizz-sics? 😎

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I worked in a bar that had funny lights on the bar and you would see the Guinness effect in other beers cause of said lights.Its the perfect pint of Times Square rooftop bar.Think it was 46th street and bway.Not sure it cause of the gas mix but all the beers used to settle just like Guinness but at different speeds.

Yet it still happens in other beer glasses

One thing I will never do is let a Brit tell me how a stout should be poured.

I've been informed by my Irish friends that offering an Irishman a Budweiser is a declaration of holy war

I love that the guys who made this video thought they needed to add English captions when the English guy is actually speaking English.

I don’t really care about the waiting. Hell, i don’t even care about the bubbles but it shure looks great! Can’t we just all sit down and have a pint of this lovely drink?

As an Irish barman, I'd be ashamed of myself, any of my colleagues or anyone in the bar trade if they poured a pint that looked like any of the ones shown in the video.

Im never pouring a Guinness wrong when im pouring it down my throat.

If quality is the same, I don't mind waiting

Who TF pours Guinness. Just drink it straight from the bottle.

Enjoy your beer in any glass you choose. Ever tried drinking beer from a Bordeaux style glass? This way you can swirl it around like you do with wine to release more aroma. Works very well with highly hopped beers such as IPA. This method is surely wasted on American swill.

All i drink is guiness, once ive had 2 or 3 pints i just ask them to pour it straight, very small difference in the taste, you dont even notice if youve already had a few

Not all stouts are nitros mr dr professor also you can achieve this in most any shape glass (the shaker pint is the glass he is looking for) also also you can pour a nitro hard and it will cause the cascade no need for the 45 degree nonsense

If you eat frozen food straight out of the packet to save time "waiting", it also tastes like absolute ass 👍

The Stout isn’t Black, it’s Red!

This video is well made and I don't doubt the Professor's expertise (thoughh I think it's a combo of carbonation and nitrogenation)...but the thesis is that the whole metric is just...how fast it settles? I think most Guinness drinkers would disagree! It's almost like "Tech Insider"s "content" is just a marketing company. Aka clickbait. Suddenly defensive?

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This honestly defeats the whole experience of Guinness.

If you suggest drinking Guinness with a straw you lose all credibility.

In most pubs around the country the tulip glass didn’t take off. Perhaps in Dublin it did, but mostly tourist pubs. For those who’ve been drinking Guinness all their lives, the tulip glass just doesn’t feel right. Standard pint glasses are what you’ll be served Guinness in all over the country, to say the bubbles act differently in them asses is wrong.

If I wanted to be annoyed with captions throughout the entire video I would elect to turn them on myself

Nothing more hilarious than a yank TRYING to explain Guinness 😂, then some English professor. What nonsense 😂

So where's the second pour? That 'tulip' glass you're using isn't what seasoned Guinness drinkers want their pint in. The real glass is wider and a little shorter too

HA - the "...straw..." came to my mind even before it was mentioned it - HA. I have seen a pub here that after the pint of Guinness was poured, they then put the glass on some sort of machine that 'mico-vibrates' and gets all the bubbles and head up to the top very quickly. HA - a mate put his pint of lager on it and the machine sent all the CO2 out in a 'flash - HA - his pint was a flat pint in no time at all. Have a safe and nice day all. CHEERS from AUSTRALIA.

i got this evil corporate overlord vibe but honestly they are just taking a cool part about their beer and displaying it in a beautiful way, yeah it takes time but its not a legendary beer because of its looks alone.

So everything i did was all wrong? How dare you Tech Insider! What's next? You've been pouring water all wrong? How about milk? Coffee? Hot Chocolate? This is outrageous! LIES EVERYWHERE

"For me, an important thing is I get my drink very quickly." (Sounds like something a frat boy gunning Bud Lights would say) --- "I might have to drink it out of a straw so as to not spill it on me." (He would rather drink beer out of a straw than wait an extra minute for his beer??)

I think the title should be "you've been drinking Guinness from the wrong vessel all your life"

Perfect example of overthinking. Enjoy the beer lads don’t worry about the hardware

This so so goofy. You can't say "you're pouring your Guinness wrong" because the traditional way requires waiting a minute and a half before drinking it. What, am I ordering my margaritas wrong because I have them blend the ingredients instead of pouring them straight in my mouth? It's drinking, not speed running.

I love Guinness so much that i would rather wait a long time to watch the bubbles fall and take a big ass pull of that brew. Its worth the wait and an experience

Guinness workers and fanatics want to take you into the back alley and teach you a lesson.

It's not the shap of the glass that causes the bubbles to cascade downward. They'll do that in a straight walled tumbler, British pint glass, or a tulip glass. The people putting beer wrong are the ones shown pouring beer in this video. The faucet should never be submerged into the customer's drink.

Luckily I'm alive after all this years.

You call the pub a few minutes before you get there to organise the pouring of the first one so its perfect for when you arrive,...About half way through drinking the first one order the second one so that will be ready at the same time the first is finished,..And continue this process until your legs dont work anymore.

Im Irish and ive never heard of this

The information density of the narrator was piss poor. I had to keep skipping 10s at a time for his points to come across at a normal rate.

The guinness is great and it's definitely worth the wait!!!

Hm. Marketing differentiators versus technical differentiators.... I suppose that depends on whether the person enjoying it is marketing themselves to those around them and whether potentially stuffy, cheap social capital is more important than the palate - s'pose it's a show of a feather in perceived self-control on display... I can also appreciate a sustained cultural - historical precedent creating the resultant tradition and enjoying that aspect, if one is ready / interested in entertaining the excursion. Then there's also the heightened "enjoyment" of quenching the incorporated building anticipation from customary pours if one is so enamored. Personally, I cannot get my mind shaken from enjoying a Guinness " 'Foreign' Extra Stout " sooner here in the US... So, I may just have to try this currently 'alternative' pour ( without the straw) alongside a lean, medium-cooked ~ three-quarter inch+ thick steak and complimentary sides.

Guinness is fine and all, but I am more the O'Hara's kind

Guinness , you’re brewing it wrong .

so much science in a single glass of beer

The "Bali Pilsner glass" is the answer to the correct glass for Guinness. Google it. It is a combination of a standard Pilsner and a wide mouth like the martini glass.

It does that in this dollar store flat bottom glass and if you take the can that has the widget in it you can crack it open drop it in and let the liquid balance wait for those bubble's to fall and just gently but constantly pull it out and the fall still happen it's really a party trick more than anything

I drink my guinness out of a santa shaped mason jar and the bubbles still drop lol

I knew how to pour Guinness.

If you're drinking in a decent bar in Ireland, the only pint you have to wait for is the first. After that, the barman is looking after you

Is this a troll? The foam has to cease/settle so that it is more firm. You have to wait anyway. In Czech, Ukrainian, Polish and German pubs it is done with all the kinds of beer as long as the pub is not too busy, also larger head is appreciated (UK lagers will be served with 0.5cm, in Germany 2 to 3cm, Czech have different height for every beer and special serving methods).