Showing posts with label extra stout. Show all posts
Showing posts with label extra stout. Show all posts

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Flutter - the new blogging software?



I came across this video on a website called barelydigital.com, outlining the latest advance and competition to twitter - maybe there is too much in twitter? See for yourself in the video.

In other news, I tried a bottle of Guinness the other evening. Not draught Guinness, the old-fashioned (!?!) "extra stout." I must say, it tasted a lot like Guinness, unsurprisingly, with the coffee/chocolatey notes and all, but it was a little livelier - not as smooth, and without the characteristic head. I presume this was because it was carbonated with "ordinary" CO2, rather than "fancy" widget-delivered nitrogen? The bottle (500ml) is lovely, with the Guinness signature cast (I presume) into the shoulder, and a smart but olde-worlde label on the front.

It was enjoyable, if a little unsettling visually, to be honest. We are subjected to so much advertising in relation to the look of the draught product that seeing the extra stout in the glass makes you fear it's gone off! Also, because of the carbonation, I found it difficult to imagine myself drinking more than one bottle of this at a time - probably a good thing given the stomachularly unsettling effect that the stout has on my digestive system.