‘The Guinness two-part pour is just a marketing ploy’
Sound Off: It doesn’t matter how you put stout into a glass, the result is the same
Pouring a pint of Guinness: the two-part pour is a cod. Photograph: Dara MacDonaill
The next time you find yourself behind a bar, try this experiment. Take three pint glasses and fill each of them with Guinness. Use the conventional two-part pour for one of them, and fill the remaining two in one go. Let them settle.
Next, find a stout purist, someone you’d consider a “real Guinness man” – you might locate him somewhere in Offaly. Plonk him in front of the three pints, ask him to take a sip from each, and tell you which one was poured the “proper” way.