Guinness Draught

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

440ml nitro can into a pint glass. Poured a dark dark brown (almost black) with lots a creamy light chocolate brown foam. Looks like it will be an amazing beer. Lots of lacing throughout. Not much aroma. Hint of burnt toast and hint of coffee. Light flavor of slightly burnt cold coffee. Creamy at first but it’s just watery on the way down. Despite all the foam (caused by the nitro-can) this beer is actually quite flat. This stuff is too easy to drink but it’s not really a pleasant experience on my palate. It looks great but that’s it. The reputation that Guinness is a meal in a glass are total exaggerations. This brew is nowhere near filling.

Can. Pours black with white head. Nose is mild cocoa, toasty malt. Flavor is creamy malt, some sweetness followed by bitter chocolate and hops.

one of my favorite beers, rich coffee laced chocolate with a smooth and refreshing finish.little to no carbonation massive head retention

12-oz bottle with the silly little marble of nitro or whatever it is inside. Pours the usual dark tan with the showy surging head that settle to a clearly delineated opaque black body with creamy light tan mousse on top. Mild chocolatey nose, just not a lot of there there. Watery, flat body. Mild milk chocolate mid-palate, with a bit of semi sweet baking chocolate near the end. Just not too very much of a beer, unfortunately. Still, blows away the corporate industrial pale lagers that are its brethren in market share, and Guiness/SJG does a lot of fun promotional stuff. And that Extra Stout really is dandy. Just not this beer so much.

Poor example of a Guinness. Doesn’t hold a candle to the Extra Stout. Really, go get an Extra Stout.

guinness is always one of the best stouts, but it seems to be the most well-known... kinda upsetting on that. so many others out there that are as good, if not better. but anyways... dark brown/black body, creamy white head. a classic for irish car bombs.

From the cask (at an Irish Pub in Germany). Creamy white head, very dark brown color. No carbonation to speak of. Roasted malt aroma, same taste, but with a nasty, coal-like note and aftertaste. Come to think of it, drinking it feels a bit like licking off the walls of the inside of a chimney. Tried this several times, from different sources (on tap in England, from the can) - same horrible experience every time. Yuck!

On tap in Brooklyn. Pours smooth black with a thick cream-colored head. Aroma is of chocolate and some roasted malts and coffee. Flavor is malty with characters of chocolate and coffee. Smooth finish -- slightly bitter. A medium body with a creamy feel. For a stout, felt very thin and watery. Flavor could have been stronger. There are definitely better stouts available. Overrated, but respectable, I guess.