This Week - Murphy’s Law ($16 per 4-pack o' cans)
Drinking beer
out o’ a can has bothered me ever since I was a wee lad. Something
about it just feels a wee bit off. I've never liked it. I can always
taste an almost metallic flavour. But hey, that’s just me. I’ll
never be able to reconcile my differences with those who enjoy
drinking out o’ a can, just like Northern Ireland and the Republic
o’ Ireland will never be able to reconcile their differences.
Speaking of
Ireland, This week’s EBW (Exotic Beer of the Week) marks my first
visit to the United Kingdom, taking me to the land o’ the
potato-eating, river-dancing, Guinness-skulling Irish. It’s also my
first stout: Murphy’s Irish Stout.
Murphy’s
seems like a pretty standard stout. Black as coffee, with a creamy
head about an inch thick when I poured it into a cup. When I first
drank it out o’ the can, I was prepared to give Murphy’s an
extremely low rating. I wasn’t sure if I didn’t like stout, or if
Murphy’s was just a bad example of a stout. However, as you, my
dearest and fondest reading few, well know, I have an extreme
prejudice against drinking from cans.
When I
eventually found a clean cup into which I could pour, and
subsequently drink it from, everything changed. What I thought was
bitter and foul as an Irish winter, was actually sweet and
flavourful, perhaps due to the use of chocolate malt. It’s actually
very easy to drink, quite dry, with almost no carbonation, and much
less bitter than Guinness. Like a leprechaun guards his pot o’
gold, I found myself coveting the last wee drops o’ the final can,
to savour what I had come to enjoy for just a bit longer. Oh yeah,
and it comes in 500ml cans. What is this, you may ask? This, my
friend, is a pint. [Almost, a pint is 568mL, but I see what he was
trying to do - Ed]
I award
Murphy’s Irish Stout 3.5 potatoes out of 5.
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