 thechandler (268), Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
Jun 24, 2009 Good, deep, dark. Black in color. Taste of espresso. Nice and bold. Good stuff.
lithy (1600), Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Jun 22, 2009 Two bottles both 7.5%. One brewed at Commonwealth Brewery in the Bahamas. The other brewed at St. James’s Gate in Ireland. The Irish beer is dark dark brown, red hints and a thin tan foam leaves only a cover. Aroma is burnt coffee, roasted malt. Taste is roast, burnt coffee, berries, lingering bitter malt finish. Rating: 7:3:7:3:14 The Bahamian beer is dark black with hints of red and a thick lasting light tan head. Aroma is sourish, chocolate, coffee, roasted barley. Taste is very sour in character, an astringent roast and light coffee and chocolate. Rating: 6:4:6:3:12
Davros (202), Australia
Jun 14, 2009 Jet black pour with a large brown cream head showing reasonable persistence and lacing.
Aroma is a mix of roasted malt, port, rolled oats, sweet alcohol, liquorice and sultanas.
Flavours are roasted malt with some burnt notes, sweet caramel, more rolled oats and some alcohol. Powerful roasted bitterness. Quite a mouthful.
Creamy body and carbonation.
nate2g (1034), Brisbane, Australia
Jun 14, 2009 Bottle. This rating is for the Australian version, 6.0%ABV. Pours dark brown with a medium brown head. Light roasted malt and brown sugar aroma. The flavour is roasted malt, smoke and brown sugar. Medium bodied and soft carbonation is present. Low bitterness in the finish. As echoed by many this is a lot better than the regular draught.
stfrancis (10), Heffingen, Luxembourg
Jun 13, 2009 33cl bottle. surprise find at a club in foetz, Luxembourg. Lighter palate than the draught version, lots of dry roasted barley, but lacking compared to the Belgian Special export Guiness. A once off for this Irish man
Pinball (2693), Allerød, Denmark
Jun 11, 2009 33cl bottle from a supermarket in crete.
absurdly huge head, light brown, smooth, thick. pours pitch black.
lightly sour sweetish aroma , i don’t like the aroma. roasted grains, booze also in the aroma.flavor is sweet, sugar, roasted stuff, chocolate, ends very roasted yet still mild. alc. well hidden. seems to me to have a little less complexity compared to ordinary guiness.
jonno (542), Brisbane, Australia
Jun 8, 2009 Obviously better than guiness, but still pales to others of its type, such as Lion Stout. Macro taste permiates though the whole thing. Limited in complexity, but I will admit it has a nice malt body. Nothing out of the ordinary. Cheap though
Sparky27 (1567), Phoenix, Arizona, USA
May 26, 2009 Bottle courtesy of Rustychiles – thanks Rusty! Pours midnight black with a 2 finger foamy tan head that leaves spotty lacing. The nose is charred malt and faint cocoa. The taste is coffee, burnt malt, ashy cocoa and even some hoppy bitterness in the finish. Medium creamy mouthfeel. Much better than the US version. Thanks again Rusty!
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