An interesting topic came up at the coffee table today.

Over the weekend one of the people from work was out drinking with some friends of the family one of which happend to be Irish. This Older Irish man was upset at the way the workmate was drinking Beer because apparently there is a specific amount of mouthfulls it should take to down one. 5 for Gunniess and 4 for 'Lighter' ales and what not. Thats some pretty bug mouthfuls.

This guy had numbers for a few different sizes (not pots, thats something i've never seen overseas either actually)

Anyway, after a quick google I couldn't really come up with anything in relation to these beer drinking rules so it put it to the QGL comunity.

How many mouthfuls does it take you to finish a Pint?
Any insite/links to this tradition/rule?

He was Irish and therefore crazy. Takes me as many mouthfuls as I feel like to finish a pint.

i drink my beer at no set rate. beer doesnt change when you take different amounts of it. it's a liquid!

A pint of guiness in 5 mouthfuls sounds pretty crazy, but I'm willing to give it a shot.

sounds like a typical alco irishman

depends on how im feeling:

if i was really fried up i could put a pint down in probably 3 mouthfuls:

but not of guiness coz its horrible

http://www.simetric.co.uk/si_kitchen.htm
Imperial (UK) 20 fluid ounces = 1 pint = 0.568 litre

Last I checked a stubbie is 375ml - so we're talking about drinking about a third of a stubby in a normal beer 'mouthful'?

Pisshead Irish..

what a dumb rule. drink it however you want to. gosh!

the irish are pretty serial about how they drink their beer

i tend to drink mine pretty fast. but not 5 mouthfuls. i try and stay with the rest of the pack otherwise i need to get a wedge(another beer inbetween shouts).
tho on st paddy's day we have a rule to skull the first pint.

maybe cause their beer tastes like the donkeys piss they drink it as fast as possible to beat the taste

ya shoulda said 'yeh five mouthfuls for pissweak irish c***s! in au we scull!!' then sculled your drink n glassed the uppity pisshead with the empty. that way you'd gain his respect & later when he's tanked locate his precious pot o' gold ;p

begora!

He was probably taking the piss just to see if he could get you all to do it.

to be honest how you drink beer should depend on the position all the planets in our solar system ...

this could turn all bad.. is a mouthful when you swallow?

you can tell what nationality a person who drinks a guiness by the rings left on the glass... well not really but anyaway... every time you take a gulp you leave a ring mark and yes by most irish standards 5 is the average (as much as white men cant jump!) although my mate at work (who's irish) takes 7 and is the one that informed me of such an equation.

not pots, thats something i've never seen overseas either actually

ja, why would anyone care about a pot? they are sooo small. even halfs look small.

pots are good if you wanna keep drinking cold beer when its friggin hot!

no they arent, they are useless

drink faster gaz

Well a pot is half a pint y'see, which is sometimes known as a 10 glass due to it being closest to 10 fluid ounces. In north qld in times gone past it was common to have a 7 glass (200ml) as the standard, if not only glass. Apparently also in NQ they used to have a 'chicken' which was 5 fl oz. You'd have that between ends whilst playing lawn bowls.

Anyone who complains that a pot is too small can f*** off outta sunny queensland.

Guiness! f*** that s***.

Kilkenny or Murphy's ftw.

some old c*** bar flies drink it in two sips, no s***, they order one, let it settle for like 5 mins and then take one sip, order another then drink the remaning half pint and the start on the new one whilst ordering another

and so on.

I can tell you the Irish are f***ing awesome at drinking and they drink all the f***ing time, we had a crazy Monday night session last night - that's not uncommon

hmm here in the netherlands at the local pub they dont seem to sell pints :/ so 3 euros for a 250mL beer is breaking my balls

thats pretty epic. but is one mouthful one swallow or like fill ya mouth and then get it down? I don't have the throat skillz for those kinda shenanegans

just gotta lose that gag reflex

5 mouthfuls sounds pretty crazy, but I'm willing to give it a shot.

You say that to all the boys...