Every once in a while you find something that doesn’t make any sense at all.
This is not my usual review, of the Guinness 60/40:
Guinness lovers are unsure what to think after a new blend of the iconic Irish stout became available at pubs.
The controversial “60/40” pint blends the alcohol-free Guinness 0.0 with the original ale to produce a lower-alcohol beverage.
This concoction lowers the 4.2 per cent ABV of a pint of Guinness to around 1.7 per cent ABV.
As reported by The Telegraph, the 60/40 pint is still made using the traditional two-stage pour, with the Guinness 0.0 poured first.
Among the first to offer the hybrid pint is the Palmerstown House Pub in Dublin, who wrote on social media: “Try out new ‘60/40’ in the Palmerstown House. All of the Guinness character, just a little lighter!
Already it is fair to assume I am fairly skeptical of the new trend in Ireland to not drink nearly as much as they’re purported to do. I will be open minded.
“Great for when you’re in the mood for a pint but with a little less alcohol! Just ask for a ‘60/40.’”
Not everyone, however, is applauding the innovation.
One person commented on the pub’s post, calling it “a load of nonsense” with another arguing that it “should be illegal”.
I said…I will be open minded. So you start with the 0.0 first…
“What is the point to this?” asked a third person, with someone else writing: “Full pints or nothing”.
Others, however, have praised the “top-draw thinking” behind the idea, pointing to Guinness Mid-Strength, a low-alcohol stout with 2.8 per cent ABV that was test-marketed in Limerick, Ireland between 2006 and 2008.
Darah Curran, known to his 165,000 social media followers as The Guinness Guru, chalks the 60/40 pint up to marketing, telling The Telegraph: “This is obviously done to go viral and fair play because it obviously works.
“I know if I make a video about it, it will get clicks and views so I’ll probably go and make a video trying it, so fair play to them in that sense.
Then add the standard strength Guinness…
“If you want to go out and have 10 pints and only feel like you’ve had four, fair play.”
Curran added: “The quick reaction from people will always be this is absolutely sacrilegious, this should be illegal. Is it ruining the classic pint of Guinness? Maybe it is, but just don’t order it.
“It is an original idea. I don’t think it would be for me. I think most people’s opinion will be it’s all or nothing, it’s either 100 per cent or zero.”
Finally someone reasonable.
So how was the 60/40? I will put it this way, the 60/40 was a cross between a Hippopotamus and a Rhinoceros: HellifIknow. I drank an Irish Car Bomb. Do what makes you happy in 2026.
Sacrilege is all the rage in this new century.
RHEEEE!
You mean the Irish Shot? (Note the URL; edited to add, locally Kahlua was involved as well)
It does make a delicious pie too.
Correct, the Irish Shot.
Is it ruining the classic pint of Guinness? Maybe it is, but just don’t order it.
OMG the supercilious audacity!
Doesn’t he understand? If I don’t like something, then nobody should be allowed to have/do it!
+1 Modern Sensibilities
How is it any more or less sacrilegious than a black and tan?
Well, the Black and Tan is named after the British troops that were putting down the Irish. In the drink itself, the Irish [Guinness] is on top of the British [Bass]. There’s dozens of other variations with their own names, I’m partial to the Half and Half (Guinness/Harp).
Why do people mix water with whiskey?
For a cask strength whisk(e)y it will open it up, and change the character of the drink. Some whisk(e)ys are also designed specifically for mixing or blending. As a prime example, the Highball (spirit + carbonated beverage) is a huge deal in Japan, so most Japanese whiskeys are blended with that as the target.
i hope you mean teaspoon when you say water.
depends on the whisky. some cask strength get more flavor with some water. some do not need it. but if the alcohol overpowers the flavor some water helps. But whisky under 55% I would not add water.
Why do people mix water with whiskey?
People do that with Scotch but its in eyedropper sized quantities of distilled water. Its supposed to bring out the flavor of burned leather and mud,
You left out the iodine and peat.
I never drank an Islay to be honest.
mexican sharpshooter:
I enjoy them, but I know that most people think they’re a bit… potent.
I’ve learned over the years that sometimes the best way for someone to discover something is toss them in the deep end. Instead of handing someone who “doesn’t like beer” a lager or a pils, go with something bolder with more punch like a nut brown, an IPA, or a stout (depending on what flavors they like in general). On the other hand, I know bartenders who drink Fernet like water who recoil at something like Laphroaig.
I have friends that are seriously into scotch.
They were having a tasting and I was forced to participate. We started with non-peaty scotches and worked our way up the ladder. I wasn’t really enjoying myself until suddenly we got to Ardbeg. Wow, I like that. The others looked confused. They were surprised that someone that didn’t like scotch would find such a briny, peaty scotch appealing.
I consistently like the Ardbegs. I sort of like the Octomores, but they are a bit too much.
Does your wife know you like Octomom?
” We started with non-peaty scotches and worked our way up the ladder. I wasn’t really enjoying myself until suddenly we got to Ardbeg. Wow, I like that.”
I had similar experiences: The more I drank, the prettier the women got.
I drank an Irish Car Bomb. Do what makes you happy in 2026.
I thought you were foreshadowing something with the “start with the 0.0” picture.
What Spoor of Madness is this?
I could probably do with a month’s vacation from booze.
Just not this month.
Hangs sign over my bar – “dry month next month”.
as someone who does not drink you seem concerned with dry january
I thought you did not drink….
Wine.
Who claimed I don’t drink?
I practice moderation, and find a lot of the swill you alcoholics down to be of questionable drinkability.
vodka soda?
For Dry January what are the rules? Extra brut and brut I assume are ok, but what about sec? How sweet can you go?
👏 Golf 👏 Clap 👏
Haven’t been to the beer store (now, the Santa Fe Brewing pub near my house), so I can’t say what I’ll get. Their Winter Warmer has been drained. I got the Porter last time. They make a good coffee Imperial Stout. And their Pale Ale is always on point.
Decisions, decisions.
I like their Pepe Loco Mexican Lager.
The last two both sound good.
Is it an actual pale ale or a drinkable IPA?
That’s a trick question. There’s no such thing as a drinkable IPA.
In all seriousness, American Pale Ale is its own category since it tends to he hoppier than the English variety, without going into grapefruit and mop water territory.
It’s not hop soup, that’s for sure. Good body, nice balance of hops. I’m not well versed enough in the styles to say if its an American Pale Ale, but its pretty much what I think of as a Pale Ale – well-hopped, but not typical American brewery IPA-level (over-)hopped.
I have did not get to the place with 18 taps this year but I expect to get there and still find 0 stouts on tap which is weird. But as always 10 sours. I have no idea who the fuck drinks sours in this country. I dont know nobody who drinks em.
I… have no answer.
/raises hand
I enjoy a well made sour. There’s a brewery down Cincy way that makes some really good ones.
Time to foment a revolution.
Wouldn’t this really be a fermented evolution?
I suppose. I just thought if Pie gets to make up American colloquialisms, why can’t I?
People Love Their Dry January
I wouldn’t say I’m _loving_ it.
I instantly got a cold as soon as I started the month, take from that what you will.
If my NFL bet does not win I hold you bastards responsible.
For some reason I am amused at the american expression belt-to-ass when a team looses by quite a margin
You mean “kicked ass?’
If I meant that I would have said that.
Hmm – an American expression with which I am not familiar.
The guy at the wine bar I am a regular at is very upset at dry january.
I don’t really get it.
Now I have definitely cut back the past year, but I will not just go cold turkey in January because of some made-up special season.
i guess it is because people overdrink in december and compensate in january
also the whole new year resolution thing.
Pater Dean periodically takes a dry month, which alone makes it worth serious consideration in my book.
If you drink every day, it’s probably not a bad idea to take a break from time to time. Drinking mostly out of habit seems like a suboptimal thing, and taking a break is a way to check that.
Dry January was a trend started by the prohibitionists who are also against any alcohol drinking.
But taking a break from bad habits for a while is something I generally consider a good thing.
bad habits ???
oooo an NBA game I can watch live.
I’ve decided to play along. Only Brut or Extra Brut Champagne for me this month!*
*unless I’m drinking beer or a cocktail, naturally
it is only a cocktail if it comes from the coctaille region of France otherwise it is a sparkling mixed drink
We are not governed by the EU rules.
Keep your roosterbutts.
And yet bourbon does not need to come from Bourbon county.
Muh fairytale village!
A lot of business owners said they supported ski patrol and shared a no-longer simmering disdain for the absentee owner of the ski area. But they also shared a weariness, not just from the last week but the persistent push to return their mountain town to the old days.
“We all want to go back in time and live in communities that were all about waist-deep powder and this incredible lifestyle and ski town tribes,” said Lauren Woodward, a local real estate broker who has owned the Camel’s Garden Hotel in Telluride’s Gondola Plaza since 2021. “But this community has changed so much. It’s expensive and complicated and nothing is that simple anymore. I’m sort of exhausted with looking back. We need to look forward. The community must reinvent itself.”
Needs better immigration controls.
Needed to keep out Oprah in 1990 if it wanted to remain a ramshackle mining ghost town filled with aging hippies and ski bums.
Oh no, not that.
I’ve been dry for four months, now, after several (many?) months treading in the sea. Wasn’t difficult to break the habit, this time. It’s all habit, rather than dependency, for me.
“Nothing like a depressant to chase the blues away.” ~Lenny, when the Simpsons was good.
Nothing like an eight day stay in the hospital followed by a dire warning that I might expire (and quite agonizingly) if I continued imbibing to cure me of the habit.
Point of order- you’re still full of THC
I’m sorry, but I’m not giving up my H2O.
All day I’ve been resisting asserting “Hydration is for the weak.”
Not everyone would get it.
Thanks for the silent movie, MS.
I’m in my Charlie Chaplin phase.
Retard Watch.
Reach for the stars, guys.
The leftoids need to experience some fear to teach them to moderate their behavior.
You left out the iodine and peat.
You’ve seen Mister Roberts
I always wondered if that would actually work
Making a counterfeit whisky? Pretty common actually.
That’s what caused the bonded storage facilities, bottled in bond, and bottling at the distillery instead of shipping out barrels to be bottled remotely.
From the ded thred:
They may be fooling someone, but they’re not fooling me. They want stupid students who can’t read. They’re easier to indoctrinate. It’s like medieval peasants having to rely on their priest and pictographs of various sorts to tell them the will of god.
They’ll still get the truth: our truth.
I’ve been doing dry January for the last ten years now. I wouldn’t say I love it but it is nice to not wake up hungover and it gives the good old liver a break.
No alcohol, no hangovers for over 40 years. No smokes for about 50 years. When cigarettes hit a quarter a pack in the PX I knew it was time to quit.
I can’t remember the last time I had a cold, it’s been a really, really long time. 10-20 years, maybe more. I did go to the DQ yesterday, first time in many years. I bought 2 $6.00 banana splits., I treated my 2nd longest living old best friend of close to 70 years. 500 calories I didn’t need.
Ooooh, guess who’s going to go see Labyrinth in the theater tonight! *THIS GIRL* that’s who. ❤️🔥
Have fun!
You remind me of a man!
I thought every GenX woman on the east side of the metro area would be here. Am disappoint.
I’m so sad Jim Henson mever knew how utterly beloved and long-lived this film is.
Oh, okay, theater is filling up now.