With Great Beer, It's All in the Rocks (and That Doesn't Mean Ice)

NY Times ^ | December 14, 2004 | KENNETH CHANG

[Petronski]

About seven blocks away, I can buy
beer at the brewery drive-thru...and I do. ;O)

[Pilsner]

My wife and I spent a couple of weeks visiting Ireland last year and we discoverd that Guiness tastes better when brewed with home waters.

Amen. My wife and I were there in 2002. I tried Guinness on tap even though I have never liked it. It was great, not nearly as "burnt" tasting as the stuff you get here, be it on tap, in a can or bottle. Then my cousin let me try a can of Guinness made under license in Nigeria. Seven % alcohol and (to my palette) utterly undrinkable.