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A perfect pour takes 119.5 seconds — the rest, two minutes, gives the stout time to settle. Time your own pint and see if you wait long enough.
Walk into an Irish pub for the first time and nobody hands you a rulebook — but there is one, unwritten, and every regular in the room is following it without thinking. Get it right and you will be treated like you have been coming for years. Get it wrong and you will not be told, but you will feel it. This is Guide № 005 in The Love Ireland Guide series: everything that actually matters at the bar, table by table, round by round.
In this guide
- The Round System
- Order at the Bar
- Tipping: The Short Answer Is No
- The Snug
- Sláinte, and How to Say It
- Last Orders and “Time”
- Common Myths About Irish Pub Etiquette
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Help us reach One Million Irish Hearts
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