Taking about how a cheese and onion toasty is made with “batch” bread and overanalysing a pint of porter. Don’t get me wrong, I love a pint and a toasty but I don’t see how people can talk about pints and sandwiches as if they’re some genius culinary art…

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  2. I don’t think Guinness is all that great but obviously some people do and people are obviously watching these videos so I have to conclude it’s me who’s missing something

    And that’s perfectly okay

  4. let people like what they like… except you, you aren’t allowed to like whinging on the internet.

  5. The point of this sort of thing is spending time listening to people chat. The subject isn’t terribly important. I listen to the doughboys, they eat fast food and bicker, and the sloppy boys, they drink a cocktail a week and get shitfaced. It’s whether you find them entertaining not so much the subject matter

  8. People often get a bit snide about people who care about the quality of a pint of Guinness, etc, and to an extent that makes sense, but it’s really about avoiding a *bad* pint.

  9. Not my thing but it doesn’t bother me in the slightest that they do it. I’ve no issue with things happening that I don’t enjoy.

  12. Guinness is one of the greatest marketing achievements in history. It is amazing to Watch the Guinness drinking culture develope especially in the last 10-15 years.

    When i started drinking Guinness was an old man’s drink. The other day I heard 2-3 teenage broccoli heads arguing about what pub pours the best point.

  14. I like people that do videos that give you a look inside pubs you haven’t been to and can add them to the list if it looks like your kind of spot

  15. It’s a bit of fun, Guinness is kind of a weird drink and there’s loads of old wives tails etc so it lends itself to this kind of thing

  19. As a former Guinness employee I just hate how technically illiterate they usually are. Which can be an advantage as most punters don’t know the ins and out. But sure, begrudgery.

  20. I don’t really see a difference between this and reviewing anything else like coffee, beer, tobacco or anything else that a person might enjoy.

    Some people enjoy going out for a day trip on a Saturday or Sunday and would like to indulge in a pint and a toasted sandwich. Nothing wrong with that.

  21. You get a great bit of business from it if you’re pouring well. Still have lads mentioning the Guinness Guru it’s nearly been 2 years since he was here.

    Ignoring that, lads like pourdecisions pretty much exist within the hospitality bubble. The two lads are fairly well known and stuff like this is great for somewhere like Fallons not that they’d necessarily need the advertising. It’s all swings and roundabouts with this sort of thing. Great for the industry all round. They’re not even pints reviewers really.

  25. These two lads both work in the whiskey industry in Ireland. Promoting it in Ireland and beyond. A big part of that industry is promoting our pubs and I guess Guinness goes hand in hand with that. If these silly reviews get more people to go to our pubs I’m alright with that.

  27. The Guru lad made a show of the Guinness. Then he tried charge like 50 quid to go Walsh’s in Stoney batter and pour two pints with him, sure I wouldn’t even pay that to co-host the Eurovision with Marty Whelan, let alone two pints.

  28. I stopped following that guy on insta who invented the word ‘schtick’ as he didn’t have a great vocabulary for describing Guinness, it usually went like: –

    Aah that’s good …. nice schtick …. ooh that’s creamy …. that goes down easy ….. the schtick is good ….etc, etc

    I imagine it’s really difficult to find a new way of describing the same thing again and again without flicking through a thesaurus.
    Maybe if he switched it up a bit that might have kept me interested.

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