Guinness
Guinness [ gɪnɪs ] is a dark beer ( stout ) from Ireland. It is manufactured by the brewery Guinness, which was founded by Arthur Guinness in 1759 in Dublin. The brewery is there a major employer. Since 1759 Guinness has been brewed at the St. James 's Gate in Dublin and in numerous other breweries worldwide. Here, depending on the destination country to another recipe used. In the Guinness Storehouse you can learn about the history and the production process more. The Guinness breweries nowadays belong to the British drinks company Diageo, based in London.
Products
- On tap, from a can or plastic bottle
- Called close to the original recipe, hence the "Guinness Original"
- For marine transport and warm target regions highest alcohol content
- Accounts for 40 % of global sales from
- Former name: Guinness Stout Tropical
- Special cooling (colder than other pints )
- Sold in kegs
- Red Ale
- Introduction in early 2007 in the United Kingdom
Guinness Draught is tapped with a mixture of 30 % carbon dioxide and 70 % nitrogen, making the Guinness gets its own taste and the creamy foam and durable is. Most other beers available on tap only carbonated. A special feature is the included in the cans floating widget, which only upon opening the container the gas release and thus the beer is like freshly tapped. Guinness beers are clarified using isinglass, and are therefore unsuitable for vegans.
Mix drinks
The 1861 London created in Brooks 's Club drink Black Velvet is a half of Guinness beer, the other of sparkling wine or champagne.
Other popular variants to drink Guinness beer, are the Black & Tan, a mixture of the Irish Kilkenny and Guinness ( which in some places Pils is used instead of Kilkenny), and Midnight, with the Guinness port is attached.
More and more dissemination is also a mixed drink of Guinness and cider. This variation is called Poor Man's Black Velvet or snake bite.
Another variation is called Belfast Carbomb or Irish Carbomb. It consists of Guinness, Irish Cream (eg, Baileys ) and Irish whiskey. A variety of preparation consists in a small jar that is filled with equal parts of whiskey and Baileys to sink into a glass of Guinness and drink it immediately. For longer life of the mixture otherwise flocculate the cream portion of the Irish Cream.
Another variant is prepared with port wine and Irish whiskey. The mixing ratio is 0.4 l Guinness, 0.08 l and 0.02 l Port Wine Irish whiskey. Preferably, Tullamore Dew or paddy is used for this.
A fruity variation is the Liverpool Kiss, it consists of Guinness with cassis.
Brewhouse Series
In October 2005, Guinness introduced the Brewhouse Series. It offered this new, limited varieties for six months. The first variant in this series was the Brew 39, despite the same content and the same production manner as the Guinness Draught had a slightly different taste. It was distributed by autumn 2005 to spring 2006. This was followed in May 2006, the Toucan Brew, which is named after the advertising animal of the brewery.
As far last variety, the Northstar Brew was introduced in October 2006, which also has the ingredients of Guinness Draught, but has a slightly different taste because of a slight modification of the barley mixture.
Sponsoring
Guinness is since 2005 the main sponsor of the English top flight league in Rugby Union, 2009/10 was named Guinness Premiership until the end of the season.