Guinness Foreign Extra Stout

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

Bottled (Cameroun version): Dark dark brown almost black coloured. Dense light brown head. Sweet and buttery aroma. Notes of molasses, chocolate and fruits. Flavour of light roast and chocolate. Some fruitys and caramel. A nice hoppy bite leads into a light bitter end. A bit watery, but all in all a nice beer.

12 oz bottle found at the guinness store at the brewery in dublin. Pours a medium to deep dark black with a deep beige head mixed with small and large bubbles and some lace. Aroma is nutty, yeasty, roast and some chocolate malts. Sweet upfront with some nice dry roasted malts in the back. THe middle is a bit too sweet with some caramel malts. Moderatley smooth but nothing special here- kind of a let-down.

(Bottled) Colour is opaque black, with a firm, lasting brown head, leaving lots of lacing. Roasted nose with chocolate and liquorice, somewhat bitter-sweet, with hints of raw fish and wet ashes. Taste is roasted, almost burnt, with an initial punch of alcohol and bitterness, turning into liquorice, bitter chocolate, espresso and a long, roasted bitter-sweet finish. Full-bodied and powerfull!

Bottle from a food store in London. Opaque black. Salty licorice and coffee in the aroma. Full-bodied with too strong carbonation. Strong roasted, coffee-like flavor with dark fruits and vinous bitterness. Roasted and bitter finish with coffee notes. Balanced with strong flavors.

Bottled(330ml). -Cameroon version- found this one in East Asian Shop???!!!Graz, Austria. Pours a deep black coloured with large brown head, aroma of black chocolate with roasted malt notes, bitter chocolate and mild coffee finish, quite good but Belgian Special Export is better

Bottle from Ian Guénard, from St. Lucia (Winward and Leeward Brewing Co., maker of Piton, the watery beer!). Dark clear brown with a thin off white head. Light aroma of coffee and grapefruit. In mouth, almost citrusy, very hoppy with little chocolate notes. Hops are almost overbearing, metallic, tinish. Not well balanced.

Bottled Cameroon version provided by Mads Berg and served in my GL Snifter: Pours nearly opaque topped by a frothy but slowly fading beige head that left good lace. The aroma has notes of plum, prune, cherry, molasses, corn syrup, smoked malts, earthy and dusty yeast esters, and a touch of star anise.

The taste is part heavy sweet malt and part twangy fruit. A bit sour (i.e. lactic) upfront as well before turning to a bitter finish that is equally coffee-ish, bittersweet chocolate and burnt ashy malt. Ended on a oaky dry and puckery after taste. The mouth feel is surprisingly lively and oily, bone dry on the finish and almost metallic.

A top notch strong Foreign Stout. The twangy sour undertone kept it from becoming too sweet or overbearing. Nice.

Bottled from Sainsbury’s. Has Funchal Maderia on the label. Very dark black in appearance with light chesnut coloured head. Wonderful roasted and slightly smokey flavours, lovely bitterness and plenty of oomph from the alcohol. I really like this version and buy it regularly from Sainsbury’s.