Guinness 250 Anniversary Stout

Brewed by St. James’s Gate (Diageo)
Style: Dry Stout
Dublin, Ireland

bottle from rob. surprisingly thin. tastes similar to the extra stout with the unique sourness. not terribly exciting but a good drinkable beer.

Bottle from BeerGestapo, thanks Mike. Black pour topped by a mostly lasting khaki head. Smells of smoke, earth, & sour milk. Tastes almost exactly like Guinness Extra Stout. Slightly roasted with a touch of earth and a lightly sour finish. Thin body. Not terrible but certainly not the beer I would brew to celebrate being in business for 250 years.

I was told it was guinness in a different bottle. That was incorrect. Still a very good beer. Pours a jet black and has a malty and coffee flavor and aroma. Drank straight from the bottle.

Bottle. Poured a jet black with a two finger creamy tan head. Aroma is roasted malts and caramel. Flavor is burnt malts, coffee, and dark notes. Very rich and complex. A very good dark drinkable beer.

[Bottle] Pours dark brown with a big, rocky, khaki colored head. Aroma is deeply roasted, almost burnt, malt. Smells like burnt popcorn. Not bad, but that is it really. Taste is light chocolate, deeply roasted malt again, and just a touch of vanilla. Simple, but once again not awful. Pretty thin mouthfeel, quite smooth, with a below average length, fairly dry finish. Drinkable, and although not really that great, it was better than I had expected.

With eternal thanks to HogTownHarry for picking this up for me. Okay, here goes.. I’m excited, my national beer.. Appearance: Pitch black, large frothy off white head. Aroma: Slight chocolate. mild hop, yeast with burnt malt, slight slight hint of coffee. Flavour: Initial impression - milky - burnt malt, slight coffee, however has a pretty weak body which is desirable in some brews but not this, woody, caramel, some peat, turf. Aside from the body, I quite like this.

draft at JK O’Donnells - Pours very dark brown with a lingering tan head though not much lacing. It has a chocolate roast malt aroma. It tastes of roast malt, chocolate, and coffee. As others have said, it is a lighter bodied brew than the extra stout. I kind of like it, but I still prefer the original.

On tap at Claddagh in CBus.Poured dark and creamy.Looked like the original but the nose had a distinct coffeeness to it.Flavor had hints of chocolate , coffee and mild bitterness.Mouthfeel was thin and watery almost lite like.I’ll stick with the original.