Guinness

A dark Irish Stout. It comes in several varieties, all subtly different:

• Draught Guinness - the purist's version.

• Draught Guinness Extra Cold (so cold you can hardly taste it) - a kids' 'learner' version.

• Bottled Guinness - used to be a 'live' beer from which you could harvest the yeast for homebrewing, now sadly pasteurized and uninteresting.

• Canned Guinness - big bubbles give it a coarser texture.

• Canned Draught Guinness - a weird hybrid which makes frightening noises when you open the can.

• Guinness Foreign Extra Stout - a slightly sweeter drink brewed for export (mainly to the Caribbean) which delivers a powerful 7.5% ABV to the unsuspecting drinker.

Known side-effects:Production of a rather pleasant feeling of well-being and a horrendous case of the Black Poos that could double up as ball round in a case of emergency the following day.

Mega details to be found on even more varieties on this Wiki