Guinness Draught

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

Can with widget. Pours black with a nice foamy head. Picked up a slight vinegar aroma at first then roasted malt and coffee. Slightly sour, finishes dry with a coffee and bitter chocolate flavor.

Nitro can from Ireland. Opaque black with creamy beige head and nice lacing. Aroma is chocolate, roast, off-dry. Flavor is chocolate, roast, milky, nitro, chalky, bitter grain and ash. Medium to light, watery body with light creaminess from nitro. Not bad but that ashy, watery body always throws me off.

Can with a widget. Full marks for appearance on this one, clearly this brewer works hard to at least present a decent looking beer. Not much really in any of the other departments; a little malt aroma, water thin body.

From the tap. Looked the way a Guinness should look: smooth foamy head, dark lightly-fizzing body. Watery and very smooth. Slightly bitter. Not surprisingly, pairs well with almost any Irish food.

This dark beer has a creamy head and light, smooth and refreshing. With the dark color the flavor is rather light.

From a bottle with the "widget" Poured a dark black, creamy white head. The aroma was roasted, actually burnt, slight bitter chocolate. The flavor was roasty, some bitter chocolate, but quite dry. The finish was roasty, and some noble hops. Decent, not exceptional. Too thin for a stout.

On tap. Black pour with creamy tan head that will last for a century. Good burnt flavor, but thin compared to some craft stouts. Depends on what you’re in the mood for, I guess. Great commercial beer.

440ml nitro can into a pint glass. Poured a dark dark brown (almost black) with lots a creamy light chocolate brown foam. Looks like it will be an amazing beer. Lots of lacing throughout. Not much aroma. Hint of burnt toast and hint of coffee. Light flavor of slightly burnt cold coffee. Creamy at first but it’s just watery on the way down. Despite all the foam (caused by the nitro-can) this beer is actually quite flat. This stuff is too easy to drink but it’s not really a pleasant experience on my palate. It looks great but that’s it. The reputation that Guinness is a meal in a glass are total exaggerations. This brew is nowhere near filling.