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The Queen turns down a free pint of Guinness - VIDEO & PHOTOS

While visiting Guinness Storehouse Queen refuses a pint in the Sky bar

CATHAL DERVAN,

IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 10:35 AM

Updated Thursday, May 19, 2011, 1:54 AM

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Queen and Prince Phillip at the Guinness Storehouse

PHOTOS - Queen's historic visit photo gallery

Guinness is good for Irish tourism – but not for the Queen of England or so it seems.

The Queen and Prince Phillip have declined to sample a pint of Dublin’s finest Guinness at the city’s landmark brewery.

The English monarch had the ‘perfect pint’ poured by master brewer Fergal Murray at the Guinness Hop Store on Thomas Street.

But not a drop passed the lips of the most famous tourist in Dublin as she declined to indulge in Ireland’s favorite past-time unlike so many of her loyal subjects who flood Temple Bar every weekend.

Guinness expert Murray – aided and abetted by RTE’s Ryan Tubridy who acted as her majesty’s host on the whistle stop brewery – tried his best to cross the regal lips with the black stuff.

But the Queen decided it was too early in the morning to run the risk of alcohol impairing her judgment in a packed schedule for the second day of her state trip.

Not even a master class in the art of Guinness brewing by Murray – who stopped short of revealing the firm’s trademarked secrets – could persuade the Queen to try a tipple.

Instead Prince Phillip enquired: “Is it made with Liffey water?”

Murray is reported to have replied: “It is pure and pristine from the Hills.”

The Queen did visit the Gravity Bar at the Guinness Brewery for a breathtaking view of the Dublin skyline when Tubridy acted as her host.

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ciaradexy | Dec 30, 2011, 09:50 AM EST

I wouldnt drink it and I live beside the Guinness brewery but I do love the smell of hops from it every Tuesday.

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Schiltax | May 23, 2011, 08:32 PM EDT

No one's been able to make me eat or drink anything I didn't want to since I was in graded school......

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sirpeter | May 22, 2011, 03:48 PM EDT

kateomprint..verbatim!! *Whispers. I copied and pasted what you said.

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Towngate | May 21, 2011, 03:34 AM EDT

I was particularly amused at this failed Irish attempt to subsume the Royals into it's appalling alcohol 'culture'.

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kateomprint | May 20, 2011, 04:58 PM EDT

sirpeter you obviously do read them because you were able to quote it verbatim.

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DaithiSuibhne | May 20, 2011, 03:00 PM EDT

@MarthaAnne,Come to yer senses lass!

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MarthaAnne | May 20, 2011, 09:32 AM EDT

ciarrai, who wrote: " Short of blowing them up I would not have them in Ireland. F**k them." Your statement is beyond disgusting.

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roibaird | May 20, 2011, 05:27 AM EDT

holy jaysuS!! Her Highness wouldnt be first woman to refuse a pint of the black stuff .......and certainly wont be the last one! so whats the idiot who wrote that article on about?

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Niamhaine | May 20, 2011, 04:27 AM EDT

They came, they listened, they were polite...I really can't picture the Queen hefting a pint glass anywhere in public. And the pint didn't go to waste, as soon as the royals departed a priest walked over and scarfed it up. Yep, it's a mortal sin to leave a pint untouched-LOL.

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slainte39 | May 19, 2011, 08:07 PM EDT

Going a little off topic...but what happens if the Scots opt for independence? Would that give the North three options for alignment...UK, Republic, or Scotland? Maybe they could convince the Welsh to break away and form a new country and call it the "wee two". Another pint and more speculation.

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ciarrai | May 19, 2011, 06:58 PM EDT

Phillip was annoying me with the yucks while your man is trying to explain the stuff to Liz and him. What an embarrassing stop that was. Liz couldn't have cared less. Liz and Phill's visit was for what reason? The Irish have certainly lowered their standards. Short of blowing them up I would not have them in Ireland. F**k them.

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clonmel21 | May 19, 2011, 06:35 PM EDT

How Rude!

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DaithiSuibhne | May 19, 2011, 04:06 PM EDT

Perhaps shes been monitoring IC postings and read the one I posted about bringing her food taster with her, I suppose he/she must have been in the toilet when she was offered that pint.

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sirpeter | May 19, 2011, 04:00 PM EDT

kateomprint..I think you should read the headline of the article first and then my posts slowly until they sink in.Quote"sirpeter i am of an age where I can still hold a pint if i wanted to but I don't like the stuff. Can you not see it for what it was just a gesture"Unquote. Where exactly did my post refer to YOU not been able to hold a pint? By the way IC asked me my opinion on this article.But Katie guess what?You don't have to read my comments. I don't read yours.

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paulquigley | May 19, 2011, 03:52 PM EDT

Maybe she's a Pioneer!!!!!

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