Murphy's Irish Stout

[Shad...@iamug.org]

Call me picky, but I found the Murphy's Irish stout I bought in Iowa City (in
the widget cans that Guinness has patented) to be rather bland and unbodied with
absolutely no finish as far as a Stout is concerned. I was quite suprised (this
is the first Murphy's I've had) at the taste (or lack thereof). Any reasons for
why a Stout would turn out this way? Oh yeah... All four of the cans were
like this, but I wasn't about to buy another four just to make sure it wasn't a
bad couple of cans.
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Patrick J. Cooney
Shad...@iamug.org
"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the
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Mouse Hole Server - Des Moines Iowa

[Marcel Hawtin]

I've had more Murphys' than most people on the planet & I've had some rough pints
too. From cans the taste of Murphys is - to me at least - "rougher" than on
draught in England. I've never found that the taste varies in cans, as you would
expect, but from a pub it can range from very thin, to badly poured with
half a pint of head.

I worked in a pub last summer vacation (holiday to us Brits) and Murphys seemed to
deteriorate after about 7 days or so, and as kegs (or whatever the term for it is,
not cask certainly) for Murphys (and Guiness for that matter) are expensive there
usually follows a period of sub-standard Murphys.

Of course if smaller kegs were used, or turn over was greater there wouldn't be
a problem.

It's a shame you can't experience a good pint in a pub, because it can be very nice
indeed - much nicer than Guiness!

Marcel

By the way, have guiness patented those 'widgets'? In Britain there are several
types of so-called in-can device - Whitbread use the 'Draughtflow' system for
instance, wheras John Smith's say 'a widget'.

Who cares - it all works.