I have yet to try haggis though I am expecting to enjoy it. I eat just about anything. Yes, I get a lot of beard comments from people. Ladies, men, trans folk, all offering some manner of admiration of a sort. It just grows quickly and thickly. That photo was no more than a 4 month growth, possibly as little as 3 months. It comes in reddish unlike my dark brown hair, though my hair is going salt and pepper, and my beard is getting more bits of white often.
It is both a blessing and a curse, as to remain clean shaven (a look not too welcomed on my double chin face but sometimes useful) I have to shave twice a day. When I wore my mohawks and wanted beards it was crazy difficult to keep up with the shaving of both the sides of my scalp, and the face. Like a job really. Like a job.
Example of one job-inducing mohawk below from '98 before I grew my beard out long: