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Spending a half a year in Ireland thought me that
a) Yes, Guinness is better there. It's weird that it suffers so much when taken out of the country, where as e.g. Beamish tastes pretty much the same.
b) Guinness' still just ok, and there are lots of better stouts to be had in there. Like any of the Porterhouse stouts. Especially Oyster Stout. That thing is now one my all time favorite beers. And so is Molings Red Ale.
c) There's something weird about that island as I can actually drink whisk(e)y now, which I couldn't stand when I went there. Haven't really got into them yet, but out of those that I've tasted Connemara and Laphroaig are excellent.
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Blog (finnish)
"I didn't ask for the job of insulting you. You know, in another life, maybe we could have been brothers, running a small, quirky taverna in Sicily. Maybe we would have married the local twins, instead of wasting each other's time here in this dump. But, it was not to be." -Bernard Black (Black Books)
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