Guinness Foreign Extra Stout

Brewed by St. James’s Gate (Diageo)
Style: Foreign Stout
Dublin, Ireland

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.

Jet black with a large lasting milk coffee head. Sweet initial raspberry lolly aroma, followed by some burnt wood and alcohol. There is some bitterness that really lingers at the back of the tongue to finish a great palate that is oily and medium to full bodied. A top drop, and it’s a pleasure to find one at a reasonable price.

Love that color. Roasty nose, with notes of coffee - bitter kick at the end. Out of the tap in Ireland is a true experience, but bottled will do. A genuine beer drinker’s beer.

Bottle- October 2005 Pours pitch opaque black with a big nice and frothy beige head that adequatly lasts as it leaves a beatifull lacing in Aromas is nice but at the same time is this brew´s weakest point IMHO. It´s something yeasty and slighltly coffee. Taste is where this beer shows itself, it is very intense roasty, i mean ROASTY but not unidimentional. You can feel the 7,5% but it doesn´t burn or anything. Mouthfeel is beatifull and filling, with a bitter aftertaste. This is what Guinnes should always taste!!

Thick, rich, chocolate and cake-like yeast in the aroma. Opaque black body with generous, dense and lasting, fine bubbled, tan-brown head that lasts and coats the glass. Chocolate cake up front fades to a charred roastiness. Full body with a thick, rich texture. Bottle (GBBF).

Camaroun edition. Bottled. Pours a dark brown with a tan head. Aroma is buttery, roasted malts. Taste is butter, roasted malts, and some fruity rasins/prune components

Solid blackness in the coloration, thick, lush, prodigious head, slowly climbing down, leaving lace...nice looking stout. Aroma has a sweetness, but emboldened by a dark, molasses-like character, caramel, a bit cola-ish, nutty, a deep, delicious thing, rich, to a degree. Taste: well-played in the mouth, fills it up with sweetness, cancelled by a lightly bitter quality, but never, ever, too much so...creamy, yummy, very much higher thing than the version of the Extra Stout, far too carbonated, that we get here. Very tasty, though, rich and chocolatey, silky and sophisticated, a definite dessert beer, but nothing I would toss back one after the other... Very unique, even if it still falls short of the legend of the true Nigerian version, yet to greet my lips...I like it though, and it ranks as quite a nice, desirable stout...