"There's no big deal when people ask for it-it's people starting off before they drink Guinness, just to get used to the taste, or ladies, to take the bitterness out of it," he adds. "But they do normally 'wean off,' as we say."
"It's mostly a tourist call, not too many locals or Irish people drink it," another publican, Enda Keogh of old-school Peter's Pub by Stephen's Green, tells me, likely noting my American accent. "Our Guinness is lovely as it is; you don't need to go adding black currant to it."
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