Guinness Special Export (Belgian version)

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

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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33cl bottle. Dark black with a big cappuccino head. Nose : Toffee, caramel and cheese. Tiramisu flavors. Sip : Oily with a very little but still present micro-biting from carbonation liquid. Sweet caramel and coffee. Toffee. It’s like you ware eating "cheetos’ and drinking brown beer. Funny. Once again nose said it all. Bitter coffee taste on the end. Nice. I forgot all the other Guinness I tried before. I can’t wait to compare them to this one. Thanks god it has some fair amount of alcohol in it.

Bottle from Alko. Dark, opaque cola brown beer with off-white head. Very malty aroma, caramel and roasty malts, dark chocolate, coffee, licorice on the nose. Taste is the same things with slight smokiness. Full bodied treat with nice balance.

Aroma: Loads of coffee, hint of chocolate, very roasty, maybe a bit smokey, albeit very faint. Lovely! Appearance: Pitch black, bit of co2 in the head, when fully poured big head which dissapeaars quickly. Quite bitter, with sweet notes. Lovely tastes, bitter-sweet roasty, fantastic but quite on the bitter side! Full body with tingling of the fizzly carbonation. Quite oily, finish is reasonable long, not to long not shortly. Roasted taste stays long though. Overal, one of the more serious stouts. Quite bitter and serious roasted, Nothing like the regular Guinness. Very good beer, very good stout.

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Tasted in June 2011 from a 330mL bottle sent to me as an extra in a trade. Pours opaque black with a thick tan head that leaves spotty lace after a slow recession, leaving a bit of residue along the inside of the glass. The nose is molasses, burnt brown sugar, raisin, fig, prune, and fruity yeast. The flavor is molasses with burnt brown sugar, dried fruits, and lightly bitter dark chocolate and coffee. The body is medium with full, creamy carbonation, and a long lightly bitter, fruity, and roasted coffee finish.

0.33l bottle from CrackedKettle. This one pours pretty darn close to a black body with a nice light creamy strongly tanned head. Aroma is quite sweet with some roasted malts, vanilla-chocolate, some thin coffee and lots of caramel! Not your average Guinness this no... It has a really creamy and oily mouthfeel, soft carbonation and it’s medium to full-bodied. Good roasted flavors, lots of that sweet caramel, a really different and exciting flavor that I have a hard time figuring out what is. Almost like its some flowers mixed with dry cardboard (in a good way) I know I have tasted this is another stout, but just cant figure out what it is (reminds me a bit of Midtfyns Stout). Really smooth and it finishes off light warming and it ends with a long lasting coffee and slightly sweet chocolate aftertaste. Soooo much better than the dry nitro stout.

Bottled 0.33L. Soft malty nose with some hints of mocca. Large creamy brownish head. Dark black reddish colour. Malty and roasty slightly bitter taste. Not very sour. At the en hoppy bitterness. A velvety fullfilled fine stout.

Pours a nice black glass with brown foam. The heavy taste of coffee and bitter black chocolate in combination with the 8% make this a very strong and very tasteful beer. Has a nice bitter aftertaste,

Bottle. Black with a large, creamy light brown head. Aroma: roasted, milk chocolate, some kind of candy. Taste: licorice, chocolate, candy, pretty sweet, roasted, burnt sugar/caramel. Medium-bodied, medium high carbonation, quite smooth. Pretty nice, but for some reason I get a bit tired of it towards the end of the bottle.

Almost black with a light brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt and chocolate. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Dry and roasted moderate bitter finish. 090711