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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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labologist (55), Bramhall, England
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/514/20
Aug 14, 2006  
A strong dry malty stout, with a pale beige head. Tasted in Kenya on a cool evening.


 M0RHI (1067), Luxembourg, Luxembourg
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/55/103/513/20
Aug 13, 2006  
Bottle (Ireland). Dark brown, almost black, large rocky tan head. Big chocolate and roasted malts, bit of alcohol too. Flavour is very bitter malt, alcohol. Harsh on the palate, little thin and bitter.


 mabjork (580), Vasa, Finland
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/103/513/20
Aug 11, 2006  
Botteld. (Cameroon version). Black in colour. Medium sized beige head. The aroma is that of roasted malt. The flavour is stron ag consists f burnt malt. It has a sweet and malty aftertaste as well.


 oh6gdx (8838), Vasa, Finland
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/55/103/511/20
Aug 7, 2006    Updated: Jul 6, 2009
Bottled (Cameroon version). Dark brown colour, mediumsized brown head. Aroma is sweetness meeting toffee, roasted malts and some coffee. Very sweet flavour, with caramel and roast a long way under the sweetness. Alcohol is also to be noted in the sweetness. Quite different Guinness FES, and definitively different than the Nigerian version. Sticky palate. 6 5 5 3 11

Canned (Mauritius version, 7.5%). Quite much deep amber colour with mediumsized off-white head. Aroma is rather sweet malty, grainy as well as some mild roasted notes. Flavour is also quite much the same. Not very pleasant 5 3 5 3 10.


peterbier (6), st. martin, Austria
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4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/58/103/517/20
Aug 5, 2006  
i realy enjoyed this version of guinness. it´s a good alternative to a coffee in the afternoon to some cake´s. it´s fully of dark malt aroma and coffee, also tastes very fruity, a real full body. great beer with a lot of tast in it!


 TBone (6741), Pori, Finland
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/105/55/103/512/20
Jul 31, 2006  
Bottled Cameroun version (BB 10/2006). Opaque black color, creamy tan head. Weird sweet, sour milk mixed aroma. Condensated milk flavor and then typical FES roasty malty flavor. Quite different to Nigerian version, much sweeter and much less enjoyable. Now two beers from Cameroun sampled and rated but still lacking the country :)


 MarkoR (224), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
Jul 26, 2006  
Delicious stout. Very nice color, creamy head. Somewhat chocolaty, hint of coffee. It helps, of course, that I bought the bottle at the Guinness Storehouse, in Dublin, while on a superb trip to Ireland.


 PeterA (339), Virginia, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/57/104/514/20
Jul 26, 2006  
Brewed in Lome, Togo. Very week aroma, somewhat chocolatey. The color is a dark brown, with a nice light brown head. The flavor was that of a dark roasted coffee with some hints of a Mexican mole like spice. The mouthfeel was lighter than I expected. Not bad.



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