Random beer question!

[someotherguy]

For anyone that knows about beer... which of these two beers would be the closest to normal draught Guinness?

This porter or this milk stout?

Asking for a friend. Cheers

[Fisty]

Your friend is a hipster and should be shot.

Guinness is Guinness. Anything else isnt.
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[someotherguy]

I know, I know But we want to buy a Guinness-drinking mate a cask because it's brewed locally and he'd appreciate it. Only problem is, it all tastes like shit to me.

[Fisty]

Then buy him Guinness!
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[someotherguy]

He's always raving about this brewery.

We have obviously considered buying him Guinness already.

[Fisty]

Then ask him which he prefers, if you buy the wrong stuff it will just be a waste.
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[someotherguy]

I will rephrase the question.

Is Guinness more like a porter than a milk stout?

[Azoth]

I find porter to be a mixed bag - often lacey and underwhelming. A certain supermarket seems to stock quite a few made by craft brewers or as brand leading experiments by major brewers. One, called 'London Porter', apparently based on an 18th century recipe, was the closest I could find to Guinness.
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[WD Forte]

Just had a hipster beer shop open near me
Expensive stuff too, £3 for a half pint bottle sort of stuff
They won't last long.
I reckon I'll pop in soon and ask if they have any 3ltr bottles
of White Lightning or cans of Ace lager.
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[andyscooter]

I would say the porter is more of a very dark bitter

guiness is a stout

but sod that get him some sadlers mud city stout instead


only downside is it gives you a bad head
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[RhynoCZ]

Stout is stout, bitter and punchy, dark beer is sweet and very mild.

If it's all about having the same colour of a liquid in front of you, telling others how cool you are, both drinking the manly stout, then dark beer / or any soft drink of the same colour is the way to go.

If you/he/she want/s Guinness, then there are no substitutes. You don't order a fish, buried under tons of spices and condiments, so it doesn't smell nor taste like a fish, telling others you like to eat fish.
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[someotherguy]

Apparently a milk stout is made with lactose, which makes it taste sweeter.

I find Guinness fairly bitter, but I really find it hard to appreciate the differences between the three of them. They all taste bloody awful

[Teflon-Mike]

[WD Forte]

I once heard Guinness afficionados refer to the 'proper' stuff
it as a pint of 'the Liffy'
( the river in Ireland/Dublin where the water was presumably taken from)
as opposed to the stuff made in aluminum vats in Acton where it was produced for the UK at one time.
Dunno where/how its made now
Never much of a fan, the draught stuff seem more like alcoholic shaving foam to me
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[Teflon-Mike]

I have an oyrish stepmother; typical north american one, a confirmed Fenian and real-ale socialist, with a platinum credit card. Never set foot in the country until she was forty!

Used to get dragged by her niece into Boston style Oyrish Theme Pubs, every time I went over... usually with the excuse, "Well, its this or a damn cowboy bar!"..

Never ceased to amaze me, they had a Fenian collection pot on the bar for the change after buying their Guinness.... and were utterly oblivious to the fact that the Guinness family probably 'killed' more oyrish caflicks, than Oliver's Army! Buying up all the grain in Ireland to make liffywater, fueling the potato famine, taking so much land away from native cottaging and cattle grazing; forcing the peasants onto ever smaller allotments to grow spuds to feed'emselves; whilst the Guinness family were one of the staunchest supporters of the protestant cause and unionism, as their business depended on British 'export' trade!!!!

You know, the expression there's none so mad as the Irish? well, its an editorial mistake. They omitted the 'American' from before the 'Irish'! {probably been more accurate if they had just omited the 'Irish' actually!}
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[bacon]

To me Guinness tastes piss thin.

A cheap "Coopers Stout" home brew kit tastes superior, it can be easily modified as well, i.e adding lactose for a milk stout, or in my case I like to add a can of dark treacle and 2 bags of spray malt (as an alternative to sugar) for extra strength and flavour.

Though I'm not a huge fan of malty beers these days, I still enjoy them of course but I tend to go for very hoppy beers now. Me and my bro Dr DonnyBrago have just made a lovely all grain brew with a shed load of hops of varying varieties, should be in the bottle next weekend, and ready for Christmas!

Went off track there...

TL:DR buy him a Coopers stout kit and some brewing equipment instead as an alternative?

[DrDonnyBrago]