Guinness Special Export (Belgian version)

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

Dark almost black colour, creamy off white head. Sweet coffee-like and some chocolat malty aroma, medium body, full palate. Finish is herby and nice malty. Creamy with a light coffee-burned touch

bottle for St. Patty’s day. from Super De Boer (the only Dutch supermarket with guiness). Poured into my duvel glass almost black with a thin tan head. Malty coffe heavy aroma. Flavor is well blanced between sweet raisns and bitter coffee/choclate. long dryish finish. Maybe I’ve jsut been too many sweet belgians lately, but this

Bottle at the White Horse, Parsons Green, August 2005. Very dark brown, almost black. Distinctly fruity on the nose, with the emphasis on dried fruit - raisins and sultanas. More fruit, with touches of burnt malt and soft chocolate on the palate. A found it a bit sweet and short of bitterness, which detracted from the mouthfeel somewhat. Some woody edges. Nice enough. I just wish the old bottle conditioned Guinees that used to be made for the UK market was still available.

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Reddish hints to the colour more wispy head. More muted aromas. Some liquorice perhaps chocolate also a lot of alcohol and slight mustiness. Much sweeter than the other two. Short bitter roastiness. Quite light but drinkable and smooth. I might have liked this more but the alcohol was too prominent and the sweetness seemed uneccessary.

(bottle) Very dark brown colour with a fluffy and stable brown head. Dusty and dry roasted malt aroma with cacao and notes of coffee. Sweetbitter flavour, dry-ish roastmalty taste with caramel and a touch of raisins, dry finish with a nice roasted bitterness and well-integrated warming alcoholic note.

Tried this while in the Bahamas. Not a bad beer, malty and coffee-like. A little more bitter than Guinness Extra Stout. Wish it was easier to obtain.

33 cL bottle from www.belgianshop.com. Pours near opaque, still, with a medium creamy and rocky tan head, lined lacing. Port, raisin and bitter dark chocolate malt aroma, alcohol nose. Yeast (sweat, leather) and dark bitter chocolate, coffee flavor with caramel, toffee notes and port, alcohol throughout. Dark and full body, slightly creamy and yet slightly fizzy.

my bottle says: special export stout "the genuine guinness stout strong and dark beer brewed in ireland" the label don’t look the same (its only a circel) but the rest is unique,...(8% "special") Very dark beer like coffee, bitter taste, full yeast very nice and complex one.