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Guinness Draught

Guinness Draught

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A Dry Stout brewed by
St. James’s Gate (Diageo)

Dublin, Ireland

bottled
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on tap
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27803.46/5.03.46/5.04.1%82 English pint P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Available in cans, kegs and bottles with nitrogen and carbon dioxide. Pasteurised. Usually called Draught; sometimes called Cold or Extra Cold - same beer, but served colder.
Launched in 1961.
Ingredients: Pale ale malt, about 25 to 30% flaked barley, and about 10% roasted barley, with no other grains or sugars; several hop varieties, mainly Goldings (pellets and isomerized extract); a flocculent head-forming ale yeast.

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 badgerben (2984), Blaine, Minnesota, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/56/103/515/20

Sep 21, 2002    Updated: Sep 15, 2007
My first legal beer and still my favorite that can be readily found. I originally rated this beer much higher, but I am far past due to re-rate this one. It’s a good, solid beer, but the flavor is not as bold as most stouts. Little coffee and malt tastes. A good standard.

doogie (16), Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/515/20
Jul 3, 2008  
On draught most places I go - It’s black, and I never detected a lot of aroma. What I like about Guinness is the balanced taste: some malt and some hops that blend for a nice flavor with a slightly bitter finish. It’s my session beer - Irish session - when I like to enjoy the pleasantness that beer has to offer, and still stay sharp enough to play music


Dr_Funk (31), Sorumsand, Norway
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/105/56/103/513/20
Jul 3, 2008  
On tap at Balsam cockail Lounge, Oslo. Pours beautifully. Nothing compares to its appearance. A bit short on the nose, but nice and dry with roasted malt and lingering aftertaste. A classic


Tomyetoedt33 (5), Cedarass, Wisconsin, USA
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4.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/510/104/520/20
Jul 2, 2008  
This Is such a fantastic beer i suggest everyone to try it however, it is deffinetly not for everyone as i have heard from many a person that they think it tastes like canned bread. To me it tastes like gold.


 Ober (187), Best, Netherlands
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
Jul 1, 2008  
A black as black can be colored beer. The head is small, it’s beige, it’s foamy and it stay on the beer. The aroma of roasted malts, with some coffee smell. The taste is smooth, and tin coffee, roasted malts with a little chocolat. It has a bitter aftertaste.


UriahHeep (18), Georgia, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/105/55/103/513/20
Jun 30, 2008  
Served in a chilled pint glass. I’m somewhat disappointed with the Draught. It’s nowhere near as thick and creamy as Extra Stout. It pours a similar deep amber/almost black color imbued with caramel tones. There is a roasty character to this beer, but it is a little too thin and watery. Leaves a nice bitter sensation on the palate. Strong aroma and taste of coffee. At the end of the pint it left a pool of bittersweet nitrogen foam, which I enjoyed.




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