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Guinness Foreign Extra Stout 3.61 393

Guinness Foreign Extra Stout

Percentile
93
overall
Brewed by St. James’s Gate (Diageo)
Style: Foreign Stout

Dublin, Ireland

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

Broad Distribution
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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
3933.62/5.03.61/5.07.5%80.9Snifter, Tulip
Commercial Description:
Higher in alcohol content than other Guinness products, this stout has a strong, oaky, complex flavor.

Editor’s Note: This is the standard FES. Sometimes it is imported from Ireland but more often it is brewed locally. This version is most common in the Caribbean and Africa. All versions from those places, save for Jamaica, Nigeria and Ghana should be rated here.
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 AsaNewt (113), blackpool, Lancashire, England
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/58/103/517/20
Sep 26, 2008  
nose is coffee, colour is dark with an off white head. Flavour is rich and smooth with a nice pronounced finish. Damn fine brew


 KyotoLefty (1447), Kyoto, Japan
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
Sep 25, 2008    Updated: Jul 7, 2009
Thick and rich, malty and bitter. Full of flavor, always reliable. It is sweet, with cream, chocolate, and a bit of fruit; balanced by bitter burnt barley, coffee, soy sauce too. Good and reliable.


 BeerFanDan17 (625), Land O Lakes, Florida, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/104/515/20
Sep 22, 2008  
A very tasty variety of the classic Guiness stout. Hard to come by, but tasty. Bitter and flavorful!


 biz82 (1328), austin, Texas, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/56/103/513/20
Sep 18, 2008  
Black. Rocky brown head, fluffy and 1 inch thick. Bitter chocolate, vanilla and roasted malt aroma with a hint of alcohol. Sweet and sour and bitter, quite vinous in flavor. Long tangy finish. Has that distinct black current Guinness note. Rather light bodied for the sweetness. Strange beer.


 fonefan (11818), VestJylland, Denmark
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/514/20
Sep 18, 2008  
Bottle 33cl @ Home. [ Trade Maria ]. Clear medium black color with a average, creamy, excellent lacing, fully lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, moderate yeasty, steam damped, cellar, vanilla notes. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. (160708)


 Tmoney99 (4767), Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/513/20
Sep 11, 2008  
Bottle from Liquor Direct, KY. Poured black color with a large frothy brown head that mostly lasting with good lacing. Moderate roasted coffee aroma. Medium body with a smooth dry texture. Medium burnt coffee flavor with a medium dark chocolate bitter finish of average duration. Good start, soft finish.


 Ughsmash (4050), Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/56/103/513/20
Sep 8, 2008  
Bottled, BB 12/1/08 thanks to Craig.. brewed in Ireland. Poured deep brown with a creamy cap of medium tan head. The aroma picked up charred chocolate and oaky notes upfront with what was either piney hoppage or some sort of maize-ey adjunct.. either way I enjoyed it. The flavor was on the bright end with coffee and toffee notes joined by milkier chocolates and syrupy caramel.. bitterness was high and not easily identifiable.. lasted through a longer finish. Medium-bodied and sharper on the palate with moderate, well-done carbonation.. good to begin with, but not too enjoyable at the end.


 ditmier (1100), Boise, Idaho, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/516/20
Sep 4, 2008  
2008 Bottle in St Martin - Pours oily black with a small brown head - aroma is all toasty malt, smoke...flavour is strong, alcohol and taste...burnt malty bitterness on the front end, light burnt and roasty dry fruit on the back end...a nice brew thats hard for me to find in the states...



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