Seasonals - Foreign Extra Stout
Simple Things Fermentations in Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland 🏴
Stout - Foreign / Extra Regular|
Score
7.23
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Like a rugged off-road version of its smooth, dry Irish cousin, the Foreign Extra Stout is gnarly and coat-your-mouth chewy as opposed to clean and crisp. We’ve gone big on the roast malts here, with both roast barley and black malt in the kettle, and doubled down on the darkness with a substantial addition of molasses. The original Foreign Extra Stouts were fortified with increased hopping rates to aid preservation, and that extra bitterness balances the higher ABV as well as the treacle-sweetness.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can sourced from Fuss Club at home in London - 30/11/2025 New Scotland brewery ✅ roasted and sweet dark malty with notes of chocolate, dark caramel and toffee, charred brown sugar, dark fruit shred, medium plus body, roasted lingering finish. Good first impression.
Tried
from Can
from The Fuss Club
on 30 Nov 2025
at 18:26
7.5/10
Tried
from Cask
on 26 Aug 2025
at 17:42
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tried
from Cask
at
Peterborough Beer Festival (CAMRA)
on 25 Aug 2025
at 13:50
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 7
Overall 8
20/8/2025. Cask at the 46th Peterborough Beer Festival. Great pour. Rich, chocolate, fruit cake, malted, toffee, treacle aroma. Quite boozy. Well done.
Tried
from Cask
on 20 Aug 2025
at 13:20
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 7
Overall 7
440ml can from Good Spirit Co, Glasgow. Pours black with a beige head. Aromas & tastes of dark chocolate, treacle, molasses, caramel & malt. Medium to full body. Moderate bitter finish. Very enjoyable
Tried
from Can
on 13 Jan 2025
at 21:04
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can. Poured a very dark cola color with a small, tan head. Aroma was roasted malts, chocolate. Flavor was light chocolate malts. Light dry chocolate, very light roast. At DCBeer share.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Mar 2024
at 06:58
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Pours black with good head and lacing. Lemon, feels infected. Tangy and kind of off. Not the thing. Can shared at tasting.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Feb 2024
at 17:34
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
16oz can black beige head. Malty and caramel. Murky cola brown. Some spice and some licorice. Full bodied. 6 4 6 3 12
Tried
from Can
on 23 Feb 2024
at 21:36
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
440ml can. Pours pitch black with a small beige head. Aroma of chocolate, liquorice, molasses, dark fruity malts. Taste is a bit odd, chocolate, liquorice and molasses there, dark fruity malts, strong bitterness but it turns almost metallic. Also the body is quite thin, something I'd expect of a stout half its strength. Not a great introduction to STF given their generally strong reviews.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Sep 2023
at 23:19
7/10
Tried
on 27 Aug 2023
at 19:56