A woman who has trekked across Europe and drank pints of Guinness in more than 400 pubs has said the best pint is in Donegal!
Sarah Love, from Glasgow, guzzles the back stuff like it is going out of fashion.
She spent four years travelling a staggering 10,000 miles across 12 countries to find the best pint.
And she has declared Bundoran’s Railway Bar as having the best pint by far.
According to Sarah, the saying rings true that ‘Guinness doesn’t travel well’.
She said some of the worst pints she found were miles away from the black drink’s home of Ireland.
Starting her journey in 2020 Sarah set out to find Europe’s best Guinness.
Her family from Ireland and Northern Ireland introduced her to the black stuff.
The Railway Bar in Bundoran has the best pint of plain, according to expert Sarah Love.
Making use of trains, boats and cars to get her from pub a to pub, makes her journey much more of an adventure.
Sarah told Luxury Travel Daily: “I love Guinness because I love the flavour and I find it really easy to drink.
“I’m not your typical girly girl, not big on cocktails or any of that stuff, beer all day for me.
“I wanted to see if I could find any pints that were as good as an Irish pint, outside of Ireland.
“I love seeing local pubs that aren’t always well known.
“I always have done and I love meeting and having a chat with locals too which always seems to happen when people see a girl drinking Guinness.
“Not just in the UK either, this seems to be a universal thing.
“I also want to find the best pints and pubs across the countries I visit to give recommendations, I get about 50 requests a day, if not more.
Sarah’s top five list of best pints is as follows:
1: The Railway Bar – Bundoran, Ireland
2: Bittles Bar – Belfast, Northern Ireland
3: The Garrick – Belfast, Northern Ireland
4: The Brazen Head – Glasgow, Scotland
5: Mulligans – Manchester, EnglandSarah’s top five list of worst pints is as follows:
1: The Goblin Pub – Bratislava, Slovakia (actually vomited after taking a mouthful)
2: The Ackhorn – York, England (this also made me full on gag)
3: DFDS Princess Seaways Ferry to Amsterdam from Newcastle
4: McNeills – Glasgow, Scotland
5: Black Rose Tavern – Edinburgh, Scotland
“I ask people who follow me where they want me to visit too and I often take trips there.
“The perfect pint, the taste should have hints of coffee and chocolate and should have a creamy aftertaste.
“The temperature, I don’t like it too cold, I prefer my pints warmer as it gives more flavour.
“Cleanliness, Is the glass clean, are the lines clean, no bitterness, no sour-ness to the pint.
“The pour, is it poured right, this is very important.
“Should be approximately two minutes between starting the first pour, leaving it to settle and then finishing the second pour.
“And poured with the glass at a 45° angle at the start till three quarters full.
“If this isn’t done right then a lot can go wrong.
“The look, does the pint have a nice domed head and no blemishes on the glass?
“Is the head the correct size, not too big.
“The Glassware, is it in a Guinness glass?”
