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Has anybody else tried this?

I had a go ( the excuse was to see if guinness and lemonade would create the worlds first grey drink) - it tastes better than you'd expect (a little bit like lemon tea...)

Guinness shandy is fine, but diluting guinness with cider is much more fun. The taste is difficult to describe as it goes down, but as it comes back up pretty quickly, taste has little to do with the experience. If you would like to try something new, try guinness with a dash of creme de menthe.

Guiness shandy? Accck, splutter, gaaaacckk! Excuse me while I run to the bathroom......

You guys have no idea of the hassle making such drinks causes the bar person. If you're going to mix Guinness with any drink that is more gassy and less dense than itself you first have to vigorously beat the gas (!) out of the unsuspecting lemonade or cider then add the Guinness very slowly otherwise you end up with a two layered concoction that may look like a work of art but which will not be appreciated by the thirsty customer. Try doing that in a busy bar on a Friday night when all anyone else wants is a pint of lager! Ah,sod it, that's what they're paid for!

God! I think that sounds horrible...but he said that it tastes better than it sounds, so...nah, I don't think that I'll give it a try in a hurry anyway. And anyway, I doubt that a lot of barmen would serve me that. They're not all that customer orientated where I drink. They serve and they serve fast and if they think that you're drinking a shit drink, they'll tell you and laugh at you and then get all the other bar-people to laugh at you.

The laughing, the laughing...it never stops!! God, why won't it stop!!??!?!??!

The whole point of a Guiness shandy is to do it away from the bar in the following fashion.
Ask for pint of lemonade and half a pint of Guinness.
Drink (or tip away) half of the lemonade.
Very carefully pour the guinness into the lemonade glass, preferable over the back of a spoon.
The lemonade and Guiness remain separate. So from the top it goes white, black, clear.
It looks really weird.
At this point you go back to the bar and ask the bar person (preferably not the one with the cauliflower ear who carries a cosh) with a straight face, "What's the matter with the Guinness?"

That's really cruel! Consider yourself barred from my pub!

That's deadly!!!! Must have a go!!

But why not buy a pint of Guinness and a glass of Lemonade and then drink off half the Guinness first?? Does this not make more sense as they will both cost about the same (in an Irish pub anyway) and you will get more alcohol this way...?

LeeLoo: cruel and funny are REALLY very similar...aheh aheh...anyway, humour is in the eye of the beerholder! sorry...

You have to drink the lemonade so that you can pour the Guinness on top otherwise it wont be in two layers. You still get to drink all of the Guinness in the end though. Ohmygod! What am I telling you for? I would like to be able to say that the bar person would obviously realise what the deal was with this one and send you gently but firmly on your way, but with the bar staff I know in mind - you'd probably get away with it!

I've been barred from better pubs than this!

But never from one with such a stimulating clientele.

I can't reply. I've been barred.

Hmmm???? Actually, I was wondering if there were any pubs you haven’t been barred from Vestie. Maybe you could tell me on a different forum so as not to upset the bouncers here.

You can talk to me in the launderette on my forum - booze is barred from there but you can have a cup of almost tea if I can get the sledgehammer back.