Guinness Special Export (Belgian version)

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

Bottle, from Noel Cuveliers, Abele. Tons of airy tan head on an iron black pour. Nose is grilled steak, a steak rubbed with black pepper and coffee. Some popcorn, raisins. Soft roast, buttered rum, salty finish. Fairly light body but with an interesting oily touch. Pretty nice FES.

Thanks to auredale for this one. Very dark brown pour, one finger off white head, Chocolatey, roastiness, bitterness. Nice drinking brew

Thanks to ygtbsm94 for giving me the chance to try this. Smell was slightly fruity with some roast. Taste was roasty, nice bitterness throughout, some ripe fruit and a nice bitter finish. This stuff is solid. Wish this replaced the regular guinness.

Bottle. Deep dark brown colour with a lingering beige head. Sweet roasted aroma with hints of chocolate, coffee and alcohol. Flavour is more of the same, full bodied and with some sweetness. Bitter finish. Really very good and the best bottled Guinness out there by a mile.

Black/brown colored brew. Sweet, malty aroma. Sweet, malty, bitter flavor. Chocolate malts.

2008-04-04. Black body with a big foamy tan head (4+). Dusty malt at first in the aroma, Ovaltine notes or mocha, muted underly malt, muted dark fruit notes. (7+) Similar flavour with a dry dusty note to the roasty mocha malt flavour, muted dark fruit in the back ground. (7+) Smooth average to medium palate. (3+) Nice. Bottle from Bier Tempel, Brugge

Bottle, shared by and courtesy of Jerc and Mabel from their recent Belgium trip. Black, nice foamy dark white head. Good aroma - sweet, dusty dry malt, mocha. Taste is sweet, very dry, some additional mocha notes. Simple, but very good, no relation at all to regular Guinness and likely the best of the Foreign export versions I have had so far.

Bottle courtesy of thewolf: Poured a deep black color stout with a huge light brown color head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of liquorice with some light roasted malt and some sweet malt notes. Taste is a mix between some light roasted malt with some notes of liquorice and medium sweet Belgian malt with what appears to be a Belgian type yeast. Medium full body with great carbonation and no apparent alcohol. A very well balance beer overall with a level of complexity greater then the regular version of Guinness available over here.