Not exactly. Every Guinness is supposed to be poured into a specially crafted tulip glass. But that glass is designed to manipulate the bubbles in the beer to turn the pour into a performance ...

Stephen O'Kelly, Guinness Global Brand Director "In 1991, the Guinness widget won the Queen's Award for Technological Achievement, the first time this accolade was awarded to a brewing company.

Many beer lovers recommend holding the glass at a 45-degree angle ... either from widget-enabled glass or pioneering widget-less bottles. Interestingly, Guinness itself is neutral about whether ...

the beer exploded everywhere after the can was cracked open. In 1997, Guinness released the floating, spherical widget you can see in cans today - which they call the "Smoothifier" - to fix this ...