Guinness Extra Stout (Continental Europe)

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

0.33l bottle. Rocky brown foam, extra black color. Malty aroma, light sweet and roasted taste with impressive bitter finish. Medium body, very nice.

Dark, but watery textute, weak creamy beige head. In the aroma there are naturally roasty malts and caramel notes. Weak body (why not thicker?) with bitter and coffee flavour (but a ’wrong coffee’). The sugar rape this beer. There so many better stouts.

Bottle 33 cl. Black color with a superthick creamy beige head. Aroma of dark roasted malt, whisky, tar, coffee and a sweetness from dark sugar. Aroma is lots of roasted malt, cold bitter coffee, ash with dry finish leaving a sticky mouthfeel. Think it needs to be from the tap to really come alive.

Bottle. Pours a clear dark brown beer with a beige/lightbrown head. The aroma is dark, roasted and coffee. Then flavor is roasted. The palate is rosted and bitter. Overall a good beer.

Dark brown (but nowhere near black), the liquid is clear. A medium-sized off-white and rather airy head settles into small lacings. The smell is of dark malts with a gentle roasted character, and notes of chocolate, wood and dark fruits. Perhaps a hint of caramel. The taste is bland from start to finish. A fragile semi-sweet malty backbone with a mild bready and roasted character. A hint of fruitiness mixes with quite a lot of caramel. Perhaps a hint of wood. The finish is mildly bitter, but since the bitterness has nothing to play with, it seems out of place. The beer finishes with a mild hint of hops and a prominent taste of minerals. Moderate body, lots of carbonation with unpleasantly sharp bubbles. Medium-dry finish. This not good, not good at all. This might be one of the most insipid stouts I’ve ever encountered. It lacks flavor, aromas, mouthfeel, everything. It’s not bad, it’s just plain old boring. This one would stand out as meaningless in a whole universe of nothingness. Serving type: bottle (Copy of old Beer Advocate review)

Black color with brown reflexes, light and creamy head. The aroma of toasted malt and coffee it is pleasant. The body is light, little fizzy with toasted taste and bitter.

Draught in Koeln, Germany, but poured by Patrick from Dublin. Black, typical storm in the glass, thick tan head. Aroma of burnt espresso. Creamy mouthfeel with an edge of roasted coffee and a hint of chocolate, bitter finish. Nearly as good as the irish version, and much better than the American one.

Black body and light head. Roasted coffee and chocolate aroma. Light sweet coffee and chocolate flavor, dry and little bitter. A good stout to drink.