Guinness Foreign Extra Stout

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

Bottle- October 2005 Pours pitch opaque black with a big nice and frothy beige head that adequatly lasts as it leaves a beatifull lacing in Aromas is nice but at the same time is this brew´s weakest point IMHO. It´s something yeasty and slighltly coffee. Taste is where this beer shows itself, it is very intense roasty, i mean ROASTY but not unidimentional. You can feel the 7,5% but it doesn´t burn or anything. Mouthfeel is beatifull and filling, with a bitter aftertaste. This is what Guinnes should always taste!!

Thick, rich, chocolate and cake-like yeast in the aroma. Opaque black body with generous, dense and lasting, fine bubbled, tan-brown head that lasts and coats the glass. Chocolate cake up front fades to a charred roastiness. Full body with a thick, rich texture. Bottle (GBBF).

Camaroun edition. Bottled. Pours a dark brown with a tan head. Aroma is buttery, roasted malts. Taste is butter, roasted malts, and some fruity rasins/prune components

Solid blackness in the coloration, thick, lush, prodigious head, slowly climbing down, leaving lace...nice looking stout. Aroma has a sweetness, but emboldened by a dark, molasses-like character, caramel, a bit cola-ish, nutty, a deep, delicious thing, rich, to a degree. Taste: well-played in the mouth, fills it up with sweetness, cancelled by a lightly bitter quality, but never, ever, too much so...creamy, yummy, very much higher thing than the version of the Extra Stout, far too carbonated, that we get here. Very tasty, though, rich and chocolatey, silky and sophisticated, a definite dessert beer, but nothing I would toss back one after the other... Very unique, even if it still falls short of the legend of the true Nigerian version, yet to greet my lips...I like it though, and it ranks as quite a nice, desirable stout...

Irish version.Jet black and poured with a large head.Bitter edge and a lovely full mouthfeel that lingered for a long time. Pleasant.

Cameroun edition. Sweet and roasty nose. Jet black body, medium tan head. Roasty flavor, butter and quite sourish.

12 oz bottle from Bahamas. Thanks Sammy. Pitch black with a thick brown head. Aroma of dark fruit, molasses, brown sugar, roast and toasted malts. Flavour is quite sour, some dark cherries, charcoal, burnt sugar, malted milk. Lingering roasty and oaky finish. 7 5 7 4 15 12 oz bottle from Ireland. Deep black colour, thick tan head. Aroma is quite nice. Coffee roastiness with some light sweet espresso and a bit of light sourness. A touch of molasses and some soft herbal bitterness. It’s quite simple, but it isn’t bad. Very heavy lingering roasty bitterness. OK 7 5 7 3 14

Irish bottle: Deep black with small light brown head. Huge vineous oaky aroma, with some great liquorice and burnt caramel notes too. Flavour is suprisingly roast, with quite a dry finish. Some darker fruit notes evident, along with some oaky character. Quite full bodied, and very tasty. Suprisingly, much more complex than the belgian version!