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Guinness Foreign Extra Stout

Guinness Foreign Extra Stout  - Foreign Stout

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 Percentile 
92
overall
A Foreign Stout brewed by
St. James’s Gate (Diageo)

Dublin, Ireland

bottled
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Broad Distribution
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3653.62/5.03.61/5.07.5%77.9Snifter, Tulip P  Stats

Commercial Description:
Higher in alcohol content than other Guinness products, this stout has a strong, oaky, complex flavor.

Editor’s Note: This is the standard FES. Sometimes it is imported from Ireland but more often it is brewed locally. This version is most common in the Caribbean and Africa. All versions from those places, save for Jamaica, Nigeria and Ghana should be rated here.
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beerfest5 (83), Simsbury, Connecticut, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/514/20
Jun 30, 2009  
bottle, Muddy Murphy’s pub, Singapore. sorry, dont remember anything, thats my story and im sticking to it.


 Beardface (770), Eugene, Oregon, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/515/20
Jun 27, 2009  
Pours out a deep black with a hefty mocha head. Aroma of roasted coffee and malt, very small amount of chocolate. Flavor is very roasty, coffee, malt, light chocolate, barley. Maybe some oats. Personally I much prefer this to the regular Guinness as it has a thicker mouthfeel.


 thechandler (260), West Virginia, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/513/20
Jun 24, 2009  
Good, deep, dark. Black in color. Taste of espresso. Nice and bold. Good stuff.


 lithy (1187), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/514/20
Jun 22, 2009  
Two bottles both 7.5%. One brewed at Commonwealth Brewery in the Bahamas. The other brewed at St. James’s Gate in Ireland. The Irish beer is dark dark brown, red hints and a thin tan foam leaves only a cover. Aroma is burnt coffee, roasted malt. Taste is roast, burnt coffee, berries, lingering bitter malt finish. Rating: 7:3:7:3:14 The Bahamian beer is dark black with hints of red and a thick lasting light tan head. Aroma is sourish, chocolate, coffee, roasted barley. Taste is very sour in character, an astringent roast and light coffee and chocolate. Rating: 6:4:6:3:12


 Davros (103), Australia
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/56/104/512/20
Jun 14, 2009  
Jet black pour with a large brown cream head showing reasonable persistence and lacing. Aroma is a mix of roasted malt, port, rolled oats, sweet alcohol, liquorice and sultanas. Flavours are roasted malt with some burnt notes, sweet caramel, more rolled oats and some alcohol. Powerful roasted bitterness. Quite a mouthful. Creamy body and carbonation.


 nate2g (814), Brisbane, Australia
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/57/103/514/20
Jun 14, 2009  
Bottle. This rating is for the Australian version, 6.0%ABV. Pours dark brown with a medium brown head. Light roasted malt and brown sugar aroma. The flavour is roasted malt, smoke and brown sugar. Medium bodied and soft carbonation is present. Low bitterness in the finish. As echoed by many this is a lot better than the regular draught.


stfrancis (8), Heffinegn, Luxembourg
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3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/513/20
Jun 13, 2009  
33cl bottle. surprise find at a club in foetz, Luxembourg. Lighter palate than the draught version, lots of dry roasted barley, but lacking compared to the Belgian Special export Guiness. A once off for this Irish man


 Pinball (2068), Allerød, Denmark
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/57/104/515/20
Jun 11, 2009  
33cl bottle from a supermarket in crete. absurdly huge head, light brown, smooth, thick. pours pitch black. lightly sour sweetish aroma , i don’t like the aroma. roasted grains, booze also in the aroma.flavor is sweet, sugar, roasted stuff, chocolate, ends very roasted yet still mild. alc. well hidden. seems to me to have a little less complexity compared to ordinary guiness.



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