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Guinness Foreign Extra Stout 3.61 394

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
3943.62/5.03.61/5.07.5%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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 oldrtybastrd (1846), Morlautern, Germany/Great Falls, Montana, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/516/20
Dec 30, 2005  
Pours a deep dark brown color. Aromas of chocolate, espresso, and a scattering of hops. Flavor is bold bitter roast malts with a smooth chocolate like finish.


 BrockLanders (751), Panama City, Florida, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/55/103/512/20
Dec 23, 2005  
Poured a nearly opaque black/brown. Thin beige head that hung around. Very roasty aroma...lotsa maltiness, mostly burnt and bitter. Flavor is no different with even more "burnt offerings" like coffee and chocolate. The abv is slightly noticeable, but not by a bunch. Better than the draught....but again, not by much.


 webjedi (249), Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/104/512/20
Dec 20, 2005  
I’ll prefer the draught version to this, a bit to "thick" both as the flow of the beer and the flavor. Not as much of a "meal" beer as I find the draught to be. A bit more malty than I care for as well.


 rsmeds (220), Turku, Finland
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/103/512/20
Dec 19, 2005  
Found this in Russia, canned, in a 6.5% version. Not sure if this is the right FES to rate it as, and I forgot to check where the can was from, but I’ll put it here for now. Pours an opque black, with a foamy, medium sized brown head. Aroma of roasted, almost burned malts, burned sugar, and bitter dark chocolate. Rather sharp and somewhat sour flavor of heavily roasted malts, bitter dark chocolate, strong coffee, and hops, with a tangy, bitter alcoholic finsih. Fairly smooth palate, but nowhere as creamy as the standard draught guinness. A good guinness, but a bit too sharp for my taste. Goes well with dark chocolate though.


Belial (60), France
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/104/516/20
Dec 7, 2005  
Guinness is a very good stout, though not better than Murphy’s. It has a very strong chocolate, ashes and coffee aroma. Drink it along a piece of meat with a strong sauce, or maybe a salted cold fish like herring.


tplindler (37), California, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/517/20
Nov 17, 2005  
Had this in Yerevan, Armenia from a bottle. Dark as the common draft, with a browner head and a sharper taste. High alcohol (the bottle said 8%). Thick and chunky as a Guinness should be. Quite good overall.


 Lou18 (1353), West Paterson, New Jersey, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
Oct 25, 2005  
Well. compared to draft, this was a kicker. Bigger nose, body and taste. Alcohol was up front to.


 bridge (659), Sydney, Australia
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/57/104/516/20
Oct 24, 2005    Updated: Sep 6, 2006
Jet black with a large lasting milk coffee head. Sweet initial raspberry lolly aroma, followed by some burnt wood and alcohol. There is some bitterness that really lingers at the back of the tongue to finish a great palate that is oily and medium to full bodied. A top drop, and it’s a pleasure to find one at a reasonable price.



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