It was a sip of Guinness
Well that's your problem, right there. Guinness is not where you start out. The only men who are manly enough to enjoy Guinness from the start are from Macclesfield. True fact.

Just curious, are you guys separating "beer" from "lager"? Or is that purely a British distinction? Personally I'm a lager drinker when I'm out (tends to be wine at home) as I don't have a beard and am therefore unqualified to drink beer.