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Guinness Foreign Extra Stout

Percentile
93
overall
Brewed by St. James’s Gate (Diageo)
Style: Foreign Stout

Dublin, Ireland

bottled
common

on tap
unknown

Broad Distribution
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RatingsAverageScoreABVStyle PctlServe in
3893.62/5.03.61/5.07.5%80.5Snifter, Tulip
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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 HenrikSoegaard (4323), Randers, Denmark
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Aug 31, 2007  
Bottle, from Cameroun. Creamy lightbrown excellent fully lasting head. Black colour. Heavy malty caramellic almost toffee aroma. moderate bitter flavor. Long nice bitter finish with licorice notes. Creamy palate. Really nice stout.


 mansquito (821), Boston/Philadelphia, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/516/20
Aug 29, 2007  
Pours a big brownish head and is darker than normal Guinness I believe, but there is a picture right there so you be the judge I suppose. The beer itself is syrupy and slightly sweet, and smooth. Lots of molasses taste in there. Some coffee and a lot of really roasty malts. Definitely better than any of the other extra stouts.


 ChristianScheffel (4481), Odense, Denmark
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/58/104/514/20
Aug 21, 2007  
Black with a lasting off white head leaving a nice lace. Caramel and toffee aroma, and some butterscotch. Rich malty flavour, plenty roast malt, nice bitter finish.


 AWS9 (226), Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/56/104/513/20
Aug 18, 2007  
Glass in Paris. Looks excellent in the glass, smells all pretty like too. Taste hits you on the first sip, though it became admittedly harder and harder to drink till the bottom. Impressive though and plan to try again.


 saxo (3572), Højbjerg, Aarhus, Denmark
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/104/514/20
Aug 12, 2007  
Bottle. Brewed in Cameroon. Huge brown head with excellent duration. Color is black. Aroma is roast malt and coffee. Taste is roast malt and coffee as well. Sour bitter finish.


 FrankJohansen (3367), Århus-Randers Crew, Denmark
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/104/514/20
Aug 10, 2007  
Bottle (cameroun). Black colour with a huge fully lasting light brown head. Powerful aroma and taste of roasted malts and coffee with notes of bitter chocolate. Good beer.


 Whelk (124), Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/105/516/20
Aug 6, 2007  
330mL bottle. Pours a jet black (or dark enough that I can’t see through it) with a thick tan head. Aroma is molasses/syrup, coffee, maybe something else I can’t identify (edit: has to be some kind of dried fruit). Full bodied, lots of roasty, toasty, biscuit flavors, with a little puckering bitterness. Lots of coffee. Oaky? Definitely some chocolate. Not a session beer, but very interesting.


 Kirill (264), Durham, North Carolina, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/104/515/20
Aug 4, 2007  
for once a guinness that doesnt absolutely blow. very dark, chocolate and coffee with hints of wood and a complex flavor that isnt the watery 4% draught shit.



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