Guinness Draught

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

Serve in English pint

Draught: Everybody knows what this one looks and tastes like! It has a good taste and is good in it’s mild bitterness, creamy mouthfeel and toasty aroma.

If anyone gives this beer less than a 5 on Appearance you are just crazy. I’ve never had a more attractive beer than the pitch black, creamy, cascading head of a Guinness. Aroma is toasted malts and bitter chocolate. Flavor is dry but has a creaminess that is unmatched. I’ve had this beer on tap at multiple locations throughout Ireland and it is tremendous. Sadly, it isn’t quite the same here in the States.

LOVE this beer. wish it wasnt so high in calories tho. still when your open that can and hear that vacuum suction open up... AHHHHH!!!

From the tap at the Buffalos Leagues Club on 10/12/2010. Has a very slight malt aroma. Has a thinnish, slightly watery mouthfeel. The flavour is fairly one dimensional - an aggressive bitter burnt malt flavour dominates, and there is a touch of dark chocolate. The bitterness hangs around in the mouth long after drinking. A barely average stout.

UPDATED: DEC 13, 2010 16 oz. draft. 16 oz. can. I don’t know how many times I’ve had Guinness, but it has always been good. Once at a hockey game my choice was an $8 plastic cup of Guinness or an $8 plastic cup of Miller (or Coors or Bud). Don’t remember which, but what’s the difference. Easy choice I have had in a long time. Always dark, creamy and rich, but not overwhelming.

Picked some up for a friend and he offered me one. Smoother than what I remember but still not much there for me as far as taste. Some roasted coffee taste with a medium finish.

This is a great stout that most places have. Great dark look. Chocolate with roast malt notes. Great white creamy head. Palate is a bit watery but taste is a bit bitter and a bit creamy.

Transcription of an old BA review from 01-17-2010, with scores adjusted to RB scale. Will NOT re-rate...as I couldn’t stand drinking this utter crap twice.During my college years beer drinkers that could be seen in bars locally could be classified into several types: consumers of crappy domestic beers, flocks of corona drinking females , imported lager consuming douchebags full of themselves and themselves full of shit and atop of all were fake beer-aristocrats, the Guinness devotees claiming »I drink only good beer« (Common myth was that Guinness has such a dense head that a coin put on wouldn’t sink). Guinness is my favorite brewery too, in a negative way. It seems to be suffering from reversed Midas syndrome as everything they touch turns into crap instead of gold as I haven’t came accross with decent product of theirs yet. Now I’m tasting their Draught from some morbid curiosity and I’m not disappointed - Guinness never fails to justify my low expectations. Guinness Draught is an excellent example of what happens when Marketing Department gets more founds than Research & Quality Control. To the beer: Can with best before date 13.08.2010. The pouring into tulip reveals rather opaque dark muddy brown fluid topped with ¼ of inch thin firm beige head that lasts. Apart from light acidic sourness and quite imperceptible alcohol nothing else is detected, maybe just a hint of bitter chocolate. Where is the coffee like aroma of burnt barley /barley malt so typical of a stout? Dominant flavor of this slush is acidic sourness derived from roasted cereals accompanied by unpleasant bitterness of charred organic matter. Now, I’d expect at least a decent coffee finish but that’s probably to much to ask of a Guinness. All in all the flavor profile is of bone-charcoal decomposing in water. The body is watery - probably a desperate attempt to enhance the drinkability - with zero carbonation. The above written refers to sampling from a tulip, straight from the can everything was even worse. »Serve extra cold« - of course I will, cuz anesthetizing the tastebuds by freeze is the only way to at least to some degree hide the crappish character of this beer. Ironically, there is even a quality-warrant signature of Arth Guinness on the can, the same way as there is a central-bank governor ’s name printed on banknotes assuring their authenticity and stability of the monetary system. Finally: What is this - a sort of bizarre experiment how much crappishness can be bottled/canned and people will still be drinking it? This brew hits the absolute zero on quality scale. He (Guinness) has gone where no one else has gone before.