Food & Drink

How To Pour The Perfect Pint of Guinness

Our presenter, Mark Reyes, quizzes Podraig Fox on how to pour the perfect pint of Guinness® direct from the Guinness Storehouse® in Dublin.

It takes 119.5 seconds to pour a perfect pint of Guinness because there are six steps involved.

First step is your glass, it's got to be cool, clean and branded because there is nothing worse than drinking Guinness out of a warm, wet non-branded glass

Second step is very important, it's the angle, you've got to put it at a 45 degree angle underneath the tap, it's the perfect angle for pouring the Guinness in

Third step then is just to start to pour, so basically let the Guinness hit off the glass, let it just cascade off the side of it. Then at a beautiful 45 degree angle, just slowly start straightening it up

Step Four is the tingle of anticipation, because if you are a Guinness drinker, you can see it settling in front of you. 

Final step is going to be the top-off, and when you top it off, you push backwards on the tap, and this is called back for black

Finally, the shamrock is like a figure of eight, back around on itself, and down to finish the step, back to the centre of the glass, get one leaf, two leaf, three leaf and a stem at the bottom. Top it off, so that's just coming over the top of the glass

Step 6 is to set it down in front of the customer