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SUPER FRESH Pints at the Gravity Bar - 360 degree view of beautiful Dublin City
GUINNESS VERTICAL TASTING - CONNOISSEUR EXPERIENCE - a sensory exercise to remember
MILLION visitors last year. This magnificent seven story building that once housed the Fermentation Plant has so many wonderfully unusual features it’s mind-blowing. From starting your tour inside the World’s largest pint shaped vessel (that could fit more than 14.3 million pints in it) to ending at the breathtaking rooftop Gravity Bar that offers a 360° panoramic view of the City of Dublin, this tour is top to bottom awesome. While showcasing traditional coopering, brewing ingredients and processes plus some hilariously successful advertising campaigns, one the absolute coolest features is the Tasting Experience along with its almost Willy Wonka- like futuristic sensory exercises. (I don’t want to spoil it so please trust me and experience it firsthand). So, finally we get to taste …let’s
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start with that old argument that the Guinness over there tastes different than the Guinness over here. Does it? It does! Even though our Guinness in Canada comes directly from that very same brewery, there are a few remarkable differences. Firstly, the Guinness there is much
The amazing creativity of GILROY and the TOUCAN famous ambassador of Guinness worldwide!
fresher – while it may take as long as four to six weeks to arrive and be pouring at a pub
in Ottawa, the pints at the storehouse are brewed that very day – in fact you’d be hard pressed to find a pint from a keg of Guinness more than a day or two old anywhere in Dublin, as the pubs simply weren’t built with the huge refrigeration and storage spaces we take for granted here in Canada. While other factors play a role in the difference in taste; like typically shorter draft lines, aggressive cleaning regimens, warmer cellaring temperatures and a slightly higher Nitrogen content in their draft gas mix (making the pints even more creamy and velvety smooth); freshness is the key component. .Another thing that I was
extremely impressed with was participating in an invitation only VIP Connoisseur Experience at the Storehouse. While we tend to think of the Guinness Stout that we know and love as the original, or only version available, it is in fact Guinness Draught that wasn’t introduced until 1954. We were
treated to different varieties of the Guinness from around the world as well as two brilliant new brand extensions that are part of a new “Brewers Project” initiative just released in the States and I hope will be released here sooner than later. Guinness West Indies Porter
(6.0%ABV) originates from an 1801 recipe found in a brewer’s diary that saw triple different draft gases mixed to the hops to help preserve the quality of the beer on the long trips to distant foreign outposts (pre-refrigeration and much like the familiar India Pale Ales). The results of this addition is spectacular. The liquid pours a dark garnet hued obsidian black with a fat fluffy taupe foam head. Deep dark, almost burnt, roasted coffee aromas and char are immediate and dominant with sweet fruitiness, cocoa and licorice in the background. Full bold flavours of espresso, chocolate, burnt toast, dark fruit, toasted nuts and earthy hops in a smooth medium-thin body slightly astringent mouthfeel with a very nice balance of sweetness and bitterness, and a medium dry tea like finish.
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