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Guinness Foreign Extra Stout

Guinness Foreign Extra Stout  - Foreign Stout

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 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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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
3873.62/5.03.61/5.07.5%80Snifter, Tulip
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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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 Quinten (955), zaandam, Netherlands
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/105/517/20
Nov 21, 2006    Updated: Jan 4, 2007
Black like drop, fluffy pergamon head, licorice, cough drop, dark burnd hops and grain,... at a lower temperature like 8 decr cels most inpresive stout.


 DruncanVeasey (2695), The Penguin’s Arms, Europe, Warwickshire, England
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/104/516/20
Nov 21, 2006    Updated: Mar 10, 2008
Inky black pour, caramel head. Sweetish, slightly fudgy snout. Opens with a toffeeish creaminess, finishes with a blast of intense espresso roast. A hint of charred dry fruit. But mostly creamy and toffeeish. A particularly finely balanced specimen. (Re-rate, 09/03/08) Erm, Tossco version. Irish I guess. SERIOUS hops, roast and bitter, bitter choc. Intense. powerfully dry and delicious beer.


 SudsMcDuff (1691), was CapeTown,SA-now Houston, Texas, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/104/517/20
Nov 14, 2006  
snaggles...got u...it was good for me, ...black as a stuck match..ok head..some sticks around, dirty i sez..smooth and oon crisp...roasted + toasted...delicous...and forgein like ****. i like this best of all..extra stout look out...had at the "smallest pub" in africa..(trust me ..this place was tiny, my bedroom is way bigger than this place..and they have a decent select of beer!)


 shrubber85 (2833), Wallhalben, Germany
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/103/517/20
Nov 11, 2006  
Bottle (purchased on Grand Turk Island). Strong charred oak and dark molasses/raisin aroma. Pitch black with moderate head - pours like motor oil. Smokey malt and grass flavors that fades into a nice roasted flavor. Fairly strong hops finish that stays with you long after swallowing. High acidity. Livelier than the Nigerian version. The best Guinness product I’ve had.


Englander1986 (51), Middlesbrough, England
4.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/105/519/20
Nov 8, 2006  
I bought this drink a few months ago, and I was blown away at the difference of both taste and aroma compared to both original bitter and stout. It has a liquorice like taste to it compared to the traditional burnt taste of the others, and when taking your first mouth-full, tastes as if it has been spiked with a spirit lol. Loved it the first time I bought it, love it still, I buy this as often as I can at my local Tesco.


 puzzl (2579), New York, New York, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/105/518/20
Nov 4, 2006  
2002 bottle found in some random local bottle shop, apparently "on display," but the kid sold it to me for $2, not knowing it was not only rare but 4 years old. Whoops. This stuff has matured into what is one of the more interesting stouts I’ve ever had. Though it could be due to a brett infection, what I am drinking is a very dry, roasty, smooth stout, but one that is laced with slight sourness and a whole lot of funkiness. In the aroma especially, there is a lot of barnyard, cranberry, fresh green tobacco, cheese. Flavor is subtle and refined, with the funkiness playing 2nd fiddle to a cool, dry stout. Very drinkable, with zero alcohol presence. Top notch stuff! Perhaps I will buy a few bottles of Lion Stout to lay down for a few years, as they seem to have a good bit in common, although I’m not sure the lion is bottle conditioned, whereas this one is.


 GRM (1237), Aylmer, Quebec, Canada
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Nov 3, 2006  
Eye: black, coffee head; nose: black coffee, skunky; mouth: bitterness, strong coffee, acridness, longue finale in bitterness and acridity FRANÇAIS Oeil : noire, mousse café; nez : café noir, mouffette; bouche : amertume, café concentraté, âcre, finale longue amère et âcre


 jehoey (766), Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/56/103/515/20
Oct 31, 2006  
33cl bottle: pours black with ruby tint at bottom and a dense tan head that is lovely and rocky. Aroma is semi coffee, semi chocholate, and somewhat oaky. Flavor is reminisant of when I was an inexperienced beer drinker and really enjoyed guinness draught. it have roasty notes, coffee, and chocolate notes, but it was still nothing fantastic. Just something that is better than average. medium heavy palate. decent beer



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