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thatelvis
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Aug 26, 2003, 11:27 AM
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I hate warm guinness
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I hate warm Guinness
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Theo
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Aug 26, 2003, 11:53 AM
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Guinness, like many heavier beers, is supposed to be served only slightly cooler than room temperature. Much like cheese, the full flavor is untapped when chilled.
So I suppose it depends on what you mean by "warm". If you mean "not cold", I think you're way off. However, chilling often makes complex beers more tolerable to some palates precisely because it obscured a lot of the flavor.
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Benjamin
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Aug 28, 2003, 6:37 PM
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Theo's quite right, non-chilled beer is really the way to go. I state this as an objective fact. ;-)
Being from the UK myself, I tend to get a lot of people (especially Luke) ask me if I like my beer warm -it's as though people think the English nuke their beer before drinking it. Personally, it's always blown me away that Canadians (and presumably Americans) drink their beer at temperatures approaching 0 degrees kelvin.
Just my 2 cents. 
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Cliff
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Sep 5, 2003, 11:05 AM
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The great thing about Guinness is that it has many different varieties. o2photo is correct in that Guinness Draught is best when served slightly chilled, and if I might say, is quite refreshing.
However, back in the day when Guinness first arrived in the scene in 1759, there wasn't much in the way of proper refrigeration, and Guinness Draught didn't arrive until much later than the original Guinness Extra Stout.
Guinness Extra Stout was actually classed as a Porter when it was first brewed and as we all know that the name 'porter' arose because the beer was popular among London's porters, i.e. bearers or doormen, in the eighteenth century. Thus the slogan "Guinness For Strength", so those old luggers could muster up strength to haul those big loads 
Serving temperature for this style of beer is recomended at 13-15 C
I found some interesting facts regarding Guinness at this site:
http://www.ivo.se/guinness/health.html
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Cliff Stefanuk - Customer Service Manager
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(This post was edited by Cliff on Sep 5, 2003, 2:38 PM)
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morsolutions
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As an Irishman (and thus expert on Guinness) I think I should add some definative words on this subject! ....
Guinness in an effort to standardise the flavour regionally and internationally and to make it more palatable to larger/beer drinkers have introduced 'Guinness Extra Cold' to Ireland and the UK in 1998. This is draught Guinness that is chilled to just 3.5 C - yuk! 
In my opion it 'Extra Cold' loose all of the flavour of 'real Guinness. The globalisation of Guinness means that we Irish people - the very ones who invented and nurtured the black nectar are now being robbed of our dearest possesions! Help stop this .... drink Guinness at a reasonable temperature or find another beer and leave it to us Irish!
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thatelvis
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Well as for the Guinness when it is too cold it doesnt go down well either but that is another story, but come ere I went home to galway Ireland last week and met a friend while I was entertaining a pint of guinness as it happens, but that fellow I was talking to told me about about a friend of his named Patrick who not only drinks Guinness but also drank a lot of it one day and took one of them Cheap Ryan Air Filghts only to take the wrong flight. any way he ended up in a bit of the desert in Nigaria, here is what happened.
any way Paddy is a bit drunk and wandering throught the desert when he happens upon a Priest baptising folk in the river. He amples down to the waters edge then trips and falls down before the holy man.
Almost overcome by the smell of alcohol, the priest pipes up: "Lord have mercy on your Drunken soul, brother -are you ready to find Jesus?"
Out of his skull drunk Paddy agrees: "Yes, I am!" he replies.
And with that, the Priest grabs him and dunks him under the water. Moments later, he drags the Paddy back up: "Brother, have you found Jesus?" "No, Father," stammers Paddy, "I have not!"
Stunned by this , the Priest sends Paddy under the water again.... this time leaving him there a little longer.
Shortly he drags him back again: "Rid your soul of the poision brother -- have you found Jesus?" Gasping for air, Paddy splutters a reply: " No, Father--- I have not! "
At his wit's end the priest sends Paddy under the water one last time. A full minute later, he pulls him out: " For the love of God," shouts the priest, "tell me you've found Jesus!" Coughing his lungss up, Paddy wipes his eyes and turns to the Priest: "You sure this is where he fell in???"
Any way the moral of this story is dont take a flight after a too may Guinness....
Kenny
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