That’s some train trip, considering a few o the passengers.  I had my first pint o the black stuff from tap @ a local beer joint the other night. Two distinctively cool things I’ve discovered about Guinness is that it self-adjusts a perfect head of foam after settling…

…rewind cascading as a rich mocha lightshow in the churnings of a windy northern snowstorm on a winter’s night, and then maintains that creamy blonde head all the way through to the very last sip. Uncanny.  It’s an oddity in these parts though, not a popular beer.  Sitting there next to people drinking every possible other brew, I stifled the urge to shout, “What the fuck are you people thinking?”  But then, for a decade I thought it tasted like pipe resin.  Maybe I actually had pipe resin on my tongue or something the last time I tried it.  That might explain a lot of things, …heheh. 

It also has a “fresh ground coffee” finish, so I can understand maybe why you in the United Kingdom & Australia are so enamored (spellbound) by Guinness.  Not just that it tastes so dawgone good, but…you drink tea primarily, traditionally, ceremoniously even, & not coffee so much?  So, the aftertaste of coffee is a sort of delicacy. It’s just a theory.