I’ll be honest in saying the best pint I ever had was not in the Gravity Bar at the top the Guinness Storehouse. It was fine however. If you are in Dublin and have any interest in the black stuff, make it over to St. James Gate for several floors of Guinness knowledge. Very impressive.
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Ellen’s, Ballyconnell, Maugherow, Co. Sligo. €3.80
It took three tries to get into Ellen’s Pub. We tried to find it once on some shady directions and ended up driving round Raghley Harbour and settling for a pint somewhere else. On the second try, we arrived around the lunch hour to find it didn’t open until 6PM. [...]

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The perfect pint of Guinness is an alchemy of many elements. I don’t claim to be an expert, but there was plenty of discussion in each of the pubs I visited and after 30 pints over a thirty day period, I feel a bit better qualified to make some judgments.
Temperature: To me, this has the [...]

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#30. Foley’s, Drumnacool, Co. Sligo. €3.50
I had always planned to have the 30th pint of Guinness at the local. I’ve never been to the local pub as to try and avoid any gossip in the neighborhood. It’s been said “what they don’t know about you, they’ll make up.” I purposely took it easy on the [...]

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#29. J. Stanford, Dromahair, Co. Leitrim. €3.50
I was expecting a lot from this pint based on how great this pub looked both inside and out. I ended up being most entertained by an info graphic on the men’s room hand dryer, but more on that in another post. This pint of Guinness falls unmemorably into [...]

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