I managed to ignore it for the past 17 years. So I decided to finally give it a try in honour of St Patrick’s Day.
That was the most common response I had when I told people that I'd never before drank a pint of Guinness.
An Irish man who'd never properly tasted "the black stuff": What kind of piss-poor cultural stereotype was I?
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The quick answer: I never put the work in to "acquire" the taste for stout. When I first started experimenting with alcohol, I drank Bulmers cider, before – classy guy that I am – graduating to alcopops (ah, Woody's), then beer, and now spirits.
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