Draught Guiness Beer is Fake

Belfast Pour Took on the Foam

Send this to all the beer snobs you know. This may force them to think some more about what is stout and what is not.

As I sat in a brewery, drinking a beer, I talked to the man sitting next to me. He is a big fan of Guinness Stout, more specifically Draught Guinness with the nitrogen foam. I tried to explain to the man, Draught is not the real thing. He lost interest in talking with me from that point on. I decided to drop the matter as he knew the owner of the brewery and was well set in his bias.

Irish tenacity, ruggedness, and passion are legendary. Average people get Alzheimer's but Irish get Irish Alzheimer's: they forget everything but the grudge. Seriously, the idea of reparations for descendants of slavery is laughable to the Irish mind. Slavery, after all, is an upgrade to starving to death. Because of these flamed thoughts, many do not want to dive into the actual origins of Guinness Stout. Who dares inflame Irish passions?

This should be no surprise to any in Nebraska as Irish Fenian General John O’Neil is buried in Omaha (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12533/john-charles-o'neill) and fought at the Battle of Ridgeway for Irish independence and settle many Irish people in Nebraska (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ridgeway and https://history.nebraska.gov/publications_section/oneill-gen-john/ and https://www.suvcwnebraska.org/2023/03/17/slainte-john-oneill-irish-patriot/). The passion is there. 

So back to the beer, Draught Guinness is barely Irish as it was introduced in 1959, long after Ireland became a free Republic. The nitrogen injection was the idea of a man from India who is buried in Wales (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Edward_Ash)! In other words, this Draught Guinness is not something Irish Patriot Michael Collins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_(Irish_leader) or any other Irish nationalist or Fenian ever drank. The closest you will get to the real thing is Guinness Extra Stout.

The Draught annoyed, and likely still annoys, the hell out of Irish nationalists in Northern Ireland as elsewhere. They accuse Guinness of selling air to make more money. These Irish Nationalists will demand the foam be scraped off and the beer topped up if there is no other Guinness available. I call it the Belfast pour but good luck in finding it in Nebraska. You will need more than a bit of good old-fashioned Irish luck.