Guinness Foreign Extra Stout

A little dissappointed. A decent stout, but nothing extrodinary. It lacked the form of the draught guiness.

Pours a deep dark brown color. Aromas of chocolate, espresso, and a scattering of hops. Flavor is bold bitter roast malts with a smooth chocolate like finish.

Poured a nearly opaque black/brown. Thin beige head that hung around. Very roasty aroma...lotsa maltiness, mostly burnt and bitter. Flavor is no different with even more "burnt offerings" like coffee and chocolate. The abv is slightly noticeable, but not by a bunch. Better than the draught....but again, not by much.

I’ll prefer the draught version to this, a bit to "thick" both as the flow of the beer and the flavor. Not as much of a "meal" beer as I find the draught to be. A bit more malty than I care for as well.

Found this in Russia, canned, in a 6.5% version. Not sure if this is the right FES to rate it as, and I forgot to check where the can was from, but I’ll put it here for now. Pours an opque black, with a foamy, medium sized brown head. Aroma of roasted, almost burned malts, burned sugar, and bitter dark chocolate. Rather sharp and somewhat sour flavor of heavily roasted malts, bitter dark chocolate, strong coffee, and hops, with a tangy, bitter alcoholic finsih. Fairly smooth palate, but nowhere as creamy as the standard draught guinness. A good guinness, but a bit too sharp for my taste. Goes well with dark chocolate though.

Guinness is a very good stout, though not better than Murphy’s. It has a very strong chocolate, ashes and coffee aroma. Drink it along a piece of meat with a strong sauce, or maybe a salted cold fish like herring.

Had this in Yerevan, Armenia from a bottle. Dark as the common draft, with a browner head and a sharper taste. High alcohol (the bottle said 8%). Thick and chunky as a Guinness should be. Quite good overall.

Well. compared to draft, this was a kicker. Bigger nose, body and taste. Alcohol was up front to.