Guinness
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Authors Note: This post was written on January 13th. The date has been adjusted so that the post content aligns with the date the beer was actually consumed.
With one hour until I was due to join the audience at the Conan O’Brien show, I sat down at an Irish pub in NYC with old friends and couldn’t resist ordering a Guinness.
Sure, I had planned to search out some beers that are unique to New York. But what could be more unique to the moment than having a Guinness in an Irish pub before going to see the most famous Irish American, as Conan has put it, “since Shaquille O’Neal”?
Guinness is a great beer, with far fewer calories than common wisdom suggests. It has a rich, creamy mouth feel and a surprisingly light taste for such a dark beer. These aspects mean that Guinness can easily be abused. In fact, I practiced Guinness chugging in college to ensure I was a ringer for Irish Car Bomb speed competitions, but I’ve seen the error of my ways. I stopped chugging Guinness after a wizened bartender reminded me, gruffly, that it should take longer to pour a Guinness than to drink it.
I’ve been taking time to enjoy Guinness ever since, and January 8th was no exception. I nursed that glass of beer so long I set a new record — a Guinness record, so to speak.
(C’mon, you knew that pun had to be coming.)
And if you saw the January 8th episode of Conan O’Brien (with guest Howie Mandel), you might have caught a few blurry shots of me, my wife, and my friends.
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