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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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 Miksu (2218), Jyväskylä, Finland
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/102/515/20
May 6, 2006  
Bottle from a food store in London. Opaque black. Salty licorice and coffee in the aroma. Full-bodied with too strong carbonation. Strong roasted, coffee-like flavor with dark fruits and vinous bitterness. Roasted and bitter finish with coffee notes. Balanced with strong flavors.


 ogivlado (3060), Zagreb, Croatia
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/517/20
Apr 19, 2006  
Bottled(330ml). -Cameroon version- found this one in East Asian Shop???!!!Graz, Austria. Pours a deep black coloured with large brown head, aroma of black chocolate with roasted malt notes, bitter chocolate and mild coffee finish, quite good but Belgian Special Export is better


 Lubiere (4480), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/102/511/20
Apr 18, 2006  
Bottle from Ian Guénard, from St. Lucia (Winward and Leeward Brewing Co., maker of Piton, the watery beer!). Dark clear brown with a thin off white head. Light aroma of coffee and grapefruit. In mouth, almost citrusy, very hoppy with little chocolate notes. Hops are almost overbearing, metallic, tinish. Not well balanced.


 BBB63 (4228), La Porte, Indiana, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
Apr 14, 2006  
Bottled Cameroon version provided by Mads Berg and served in my GL Snifter: Pours nearly opaque topped by a frothy but slowly fading beige head that left good lace. The aroma has notes of plum, prune, cherry, molasses, corn syrup, smoked malts, earthy and dusty yeast esters, and a touch of star anise.

The taste is part heavy sweet malt and part twangy fruit. A bit sour (i.e. lactic) upfront as well before turning to a bitter finish that is equally coffee-ish, bittersweet chocolate and burnt ashy malt. Ended on a oaky dry and puckery after taste. The mouth feel is surprisingly lively and oily, bone dry on the finish and almost metallic.

A top notch strong Foreign Stout. The twangy sour undertone kept it from becoming too sweet or overbearing. Nice.


 Fin (3410), Merton, Oxfordshire, England
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/515/20
Mar 24, 2006  
Bottled from Sainsbury’s. Has Funchal Maderia on the label. Very dark black in appearance with light chesnut coloured head. Wonderful roasted and slightly smokey flavours, lovely bitterness and plenty of oomph from the alcohol. I really like this version and buy it regularly from Sainsbury’s.


 DJMonarch (6777), Northwich, Cheshire, England
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
Mar 12, 2006    Updated: Feb 24, 2007
1. Bottle at the Edge, Nottingham 18/07/2004 Black smooth on the palate and strong in alcohol. Lasting bitter slight roast finish. 2. Bottle 24/02/2007 Very fruity aroma. Small tan head. Black very strong in alcohol and warming. Crisp fruity and dry very bitter coffee roast finish.


iCraig (32), Manchester, Greater Manchester, England
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/104/510/103/517/20
Feb 25, 2006  
Bottle from the Guinness factory in Dublin August 2004. Like its counterpart Guinness Original this is a carbonated stout very different ffrom the draught version. Its alot stronger and you can taste it, it almost warms you when you drink it. Taste ofs burnt coffee with a very slight burnt chocolate flavoury sweetness.


 beerledgend (919), Meadowbank Auckland, New Zealand
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/105/55/103/512/20
Jan 23, 2006  
Dark black in colour with thick creamy toffe coloured head. spicey coffe flavours, peperry aroma. Can notice the difference from big brother is more carbonated and not as thick.



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