Guinness Red

Formerly brewed at St. James’s Gate (Diageo)
Style: Bitter
Dublin, Ireland

Serve in English pint

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This just tasted like a watered down version of Guinness. Either drink a normal Guinness or go for a proper drink like a real ale or a bitter. I won’t waste my time on this again.

UPDATED: MAR 30, 2008 Unexpected Parrot gig rate at The Malt Shovel, Ryton. Had been keen to cross paths with this one for a while, but somehow it hadn’t happened. I’m glad I tried it whilst I could, because I can’t see it appealing sufficiently to its intended...’demographic’ (Straying Guinness drinkers? lagerboys?) to survive for very long. Anyway....it’s a wishy-washy dribble of biscuit I barely noticed was there... imperceptible wood/almond notes....99.99 parts over-chilled nitrogenated water. Lined it up side-by-side with a pint of M&B Mild. One was a half-decent, delicately tasty darkish beer hinting at chocolate and coffee, and the other was the Guinness.

Looks beautiful. I expected it to taste like a slightly roasty bitter but it’s not. The subtle sweetness of Guinness extra stout amplified and the roasted malt and bitterness all but eradicated. Guinness for those who don’t like Guinness.

UPDATED: FEB 27, 2012 On tap in Liverpool. Nice red colour with minimum head. VERY waterish and hardly any aroma. Tast like very thin coffee.

Draught. Not much flavour. Watery, with the same old crappy creamy Guinness thing. This had NO flavour. I can’t say anything more about it.

First of all, this isn’t as red as it looks in the promo pictures - if you hold it up to the light alongside a normal pint of Draught Guinness (which we did), you will see a difference, but otherwise it looks brown. The body is definitely a lot thinner, and the whole thing is more soupy and frankly a bit of a mess. There’s no aroma, there’s very little flavour. This really is swill. By the way, its a stout, not a bitter. Just a very odd stout.