Guinness Foreign Extra Stout (Jamaica/Kenya/Tanzania)

Brewed by Desnoes and Geddes (Diageo PLC)
Style: Foreign Stout
Kingston, Jamaica

Serve in English pint, Snifter, Tulip

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Black with a beige head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt, butter and chocolate. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and moderate bitter finish. 270112

Can. Nice head with good duration. Color is black. Aroma and taste are roast malt, caramel, chocolate, notes of coffee. licorice and is a little earthy. Dry finish.

Can. Creamy lightbrown good mostly lasting head. Dark red amber colour. Moderate malty and light hopy aroma. Toffee notes. Moderate bitter roasted flavor. Dry coffee notes. Average dry coffee finish. Oily palate. Strange but a nice experience.

50cl bottle brewed in Kenya. Pours a lightly viscous, opaque black with a creamy, slightly thick beige head. Doesn’t look like your typical Guinness. Nose is mostly roasted barley, a little hay, some light grass, brown bread, a little licorice. Flavor is big, heavy licorice, very malty, sweet, molasses, roasted barley, dark toast, a little hay, chocolate. Full bodied, sweet, sticky finish.

500 ml bottle in Kenya in my hotel room. What Jamaica and Kenya have in common but here goes. Pours an almost black color with a full tan head. Aroma is roasted caramel and malt. Taste is much the same with some smoke as well. Palate is smooth and ends somewhat bitter. Not bad.

Had on my most recent visit to Negril. I couldn’t find craft beer in Jamaica to save my life so this had to do. Pretty much like your standard base beer but with more of a dry hop presence. It definitely tasted much better then all that Red Stripe I was drinking for free.

Pitch black colour with a nice brown head. Aroma of coffee and roasted malt. Nice bitter flavour with good coffee tastes. Fully bittered aftertaste-very good to try! Overall, a nice example of a foreign stout and I’m very grateful to try this beer. Many thanks to Tim for picking this up down in the caribbean! I sampled this 330 mL bottle on 15-May-2004 at the May RB Party in Toronto, Ontario. - This rating was for the Jamaica bottle.

Enjoyed on the beach in Negril, JA. This is a nice stout, sweeter than the original, but still tasted like Guinness, except better. I would drink this over the original any time, except it’s harder to get.

12 oz bottle
I was shocked to find this in the gift shop at the resort and even more so that it was only $1.99 a bottle. Picking up a couple for trades I opened it back in the room where there was shade and air conditioning. This is a typical Guinness which is to say far and away the best beer available in Jamaica. It doesn’t quite bit fit wit the tropical vibe and its heaviness might wear down your palate. Even so I would prefer this to bottom shelf vodka, rum, and cheap macro swill.

Aroma / Appearance - The maroonish red body hide a ring of murky black. The nice mocha head was darker than the nearby sand by a slim margin. Chocolate mint, wet cotton towels, and black coffee glazing on a brownie sweetened the air with a texture that was in sharp contrast to the environment around. Reassuring it reminded me that there are in fact good beers to be had almost anywhere you are.

Flavor / Palate - Warm mouth fulls of spice, cola, and black coffee were soothing on the palate. The balance was typical of what you’d find in a normal Guinness. A dry roasted finish was like the peanuts at the end of the bar. The light hint of smokiness adds character and makes me wish I had a spare bottle even now. If you find yourself on vacation and run across this give it a try and not just so you can tick off a new country. This really is a beer worth having.

Had at jamaican bobsled cafe in jamaica nuttier and more bold than regular guinness great beer good aftertaste and better than expected