Guinness changes original recipe

Guinness changes original recipe

It’s not everyday you read such a troubling headline, sure you can read stories of real sorrow suffering and human tragedy and I’m in no way trivialized those stories but when I saw this headline.

Guinness is going vegan.

I was a bit saddened, then it got worst

Starting in 2016, the Irish beer will be fully vegan friendly for the first time since they started brewing beer 256 years

Now anyone who knows me, knows I’m not much of a drinker, but my drink of choice is Guinness Stout. I actually was looking through some pictures recently and thought to myself I’ve been photographed way to often holding/drinking bottles of Guinness as if I were an official representative or sponsored by the company. As far as I’m concerned when it comes to Guinness there are two types of people, the kings and queens of this planet who can appreciate a thoroughly superior black nectar of legends and the whiny soft pinky flicking when they drink cocktails whiners. The stout

I hate calling it a beer

is an acquired taste yes, but when you have drunk it for years nothing else will do to quench that appetite or just wet your whistle at a bar. I started drinking Guinness while limin’ in Barbados and coincidentally it was the same drink that gave me the worst headache/hangover I’ve ever had in my life, but I guess drinking 7-8 wasn’t really a good idea.

Anyway moving on, it was bad enough recently when I saw Guinness decided to launch a Guinness Blonde for the American market, I though that was a complete abomination to the iconic brand, but that’s just me I suspect, if these Bud, Miller, Coors and other weak beer drinking pansies can’t drink the black stuff, why cater to them?

As a vegetarian, well more of a “Flexatarian” I had no idea Guinness went through a process that included fish bladder filtering and now I know, I have to say, I honestly don’t care. What I don’t understand is why change the recipe now after 256 years, to become more Vegan? How big is the vegan market? Where are the stats on Vegans drinking more Guinness then meat-mouths aka regular human carnivores? I guess this would sup it up nicely.

Announcement follows a longstanding campaign and several online petitions from beer-loving vegans

But I guess no one drinks Guinness for the fish bladder filtration process, so if the recipe changes and the taste remains the same, which would be questionable, they have the entire market cornered. I wish these same petitioning vegans would get these fast-food chains to get that beef tallow thing off the french fries.

Now my only question would be, will the taste change? …. I would seriously hope not! Having Guinness tasting like Dragon or Mackeson stout would not be good for me personally. Ok I have another question, will this new filtration process still keep the ummmmm *cough lead in your pencil, the wood in the staff of life, the iron in the rod of correction?