Guinness Black Lager

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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Aroma has the faintest hint of smokiness in there and is dominated by a roasty malt, but is not too aromatic at all. Colour is a nice super deep brown-black, with a fizzy head that fades quickly. Taste is really sort of non-existent. Little bitter, maybe? Palate is forgettable. Overall, a confused beer which needs to make up its mind. Oh yeah, Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Bottle. Head is initially average sized, frothy, light brown, mostly diminishing. Body is dark brown to black. Aroma is lightly to moderately malty (roasted/burnt grain, husks), with light notes of paper and paint. Flavor is lightly to moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, moderately bitter, husky, unclean/papery. Light to medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. About as industrial as it gets. Drain pour.

SHOCKINGLY disappointing!!!!!!& Nice malty, nutty, roasted aroma. Very nice. Gorgeous cola black pour with an outstanding brown creamy head that dies a bit too soon. After that it sucks! Very thin, very, very watery. No flavor, no body, no character, no after-taste...NOTHING! I’m stunned that Guinness of all brewers would come out with something this useless! The appearance and aroma bumped the score up. Don’t let my 2.1 fool you! Overall, this sucks ass!

This beer looks like Guinness and tastes like Budweiser. The marketing people said it was the best of all worlds so we made it. We here at Guinness have been pretending to bring you Ireland’s finest beers for quite a while now and we thought this mostly flavorless dark lager was a great way to continue doing so. This fizzling, mass produced beer is brewed using the most modern traditional methods and just enough roasted barley to make it look different while affecting the flavor in no way whatsoever. Cheers!

--Actual St. James’s Gate Literature on Guinness Black Lager

Black. Lightly roasted in the flavor and aroma with a thin palate. Some grain, but really very little to enjoy here. Thin, a little watery. Regular Guinness is better and this is surely nothing more than an attempt to break into the lager market.

Bottle. Woody chocolate malt aroma. Dark brown color with giant tan head.. Lightly sweet chocolate malt flavor. Very light body. No bad flavors but extremely light.

Poured nice,lookes nice smells nice. Watery with a musky aftertaste. Blah....glad it was free.

What’d they do here, roast up a Harp? I think I actually prefer Sam Adam’s Black Lager to this Thin, boring and flat.

Pours dark black with nice lacing tan head, aroma brings notes of some weird vegetal, touch of roast, hints of grain maybe? Very fizzy and thin on the palate, taste is thin as well with hints of slight roast, some odd metallic notes, hints of grain, very slight hint of roast, leaving an unpleasant metallic and sweet combination at the end.

Bottle pour to shaker. Cola color. Tastes like a standard lager, but a little maltier. Hint of roasted barley. Nothing about it that I say anything good about.