I have to excercice on that Guiness thing!
ohmawgohd ...
I don't know if it's still the case, but I remember reading in one of my beer books that there was a period when Guiness was made more palatable to a mass market; IIRC one element of this was reducing alcohol volume. The one exception was Guiness marketed to Belgium, where they just wouldn't take that kind of compromise!
(Message edited by yggdrasil on June 16, 2006)