Guinness Extra Stout (Original) - Guinness Ltd.

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rAvg: 3.7
pDev: 15.41%
Reviews: 1162
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Guinness Ltd.

Ireland

Style | ABV
Irish Dry Stout | 6.00% ABV

Availability: Year-round. bottle (1085), on-tap (46), nitro-tap (10), nitro-can (10), nitro-bottle (7), can (3), growler (1).

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Reviews by tectactoe:

tectactoe

Michigan

3.2/5 rDev -13.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

Pours a deep brown color, almost ruby in some spots allowing light to shine through without too much trouble; khaki head, doesn't last for long and doesn't leave any lacing behind on the glass. The aroma is faint and difficult to pick up on; roasted barley, malts, grains, and honestly not much else. You might be able to say mocha or coffee, but I'm just not getting any of it. Maybe some very, very faint, dark fruit sweetness, but that's about it. Taste delivers a bit more than the aroma; roasted and charred malt and barley, toasted grains, nice alcohol presence, grapes, wine-like sweetness, slight bitter coffee; hop profile is dry, ashy, and proves to be more bitter than expected, but not overwhelming. The alcohol flavor is surprisingly noticeable despite being only 6% ABV. Medium body with a medium-high amount of carbonation; the brew finishes very dry and almost even crisp on the palate.

Not the best offering out there, but I would choose this over the Guinness Draught almost any day (unless my goal was to drink as much beer as possible).

Serving type: bottle

01-03-2013 13:45:50 | More by tectactoe

More User Reviews:

prof_dynamite

Georgia

4.5/5 rDev +21.6%

05-26-2013 04:07:31 | More by prof_dynamite

laramis

South Carolina

3.93/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 4

A: Poured a very dark if not black color it had a two inch tan head that retained well and left tons of lacing.

S: Good smell lots of roasted character sweet malt and chocolate hints very pleasant slight hint of alcohol perhaps some dark fruit notes.

T: The roast hits up front followed by the slight sweetness in the smell it has an overall earthy flavor and ends bitter, yet refreshing and enjoyable.

M: this was the most disappointing aspect, the expected creamy feel was not there it feels rather light and while this was refreshing it was not what i expected.

O: I am not super familiar with this style so I cannot say if it is pure to the style, also i have heard that guinness has watered down changed etc their beers, i don't know i really liked the beer it tasted good it looked good and it smelled good , the mouth feel was a bit disappointing and maybe that is the watering down but on the whole this is a good beer.

Serving type: bottle

05-26-2013 03:12:14 | More by laramis