250 Anniversary Stout
Guinness (St. James's Gate) in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪
Stout - Dry Special Out of Production|
Score
6.37
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Draft. Like a combo of a sweet stout and a regular G. Pours brown w/minor head, some chox and coffee. Relatively enjoyable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle - no idea where it came from. Pours clear brown with a large beige creamy head that laces nicely. Aroma is very malty - roasted with molasses. Flavor is medium sweet, roasted malt, a bit of chocolate, raisin, some citric notes. Finish is very lightly bitter, lemon rind, dry. Body is light and watery. Seems more like brown ale than a stout to me.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
12oz bottle from Pick’s poured into an English Pint. Pours black with a good bit of creamy off-white head. Aroma of coffee and some light chocolate. Taste is lightly bitter. Coffee and chocolate. Medium bodied with a creamy texture. Soft carbonation and a long coffee finish. Overall, pretty good. Glad I finally cracked this one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Wait, what? where’d my rating go - oh must not have ever put it in. Oh well! Anyway, frantically searching my notes for this particular beer, I noted the black color pour with a thick, creamy dark tan head. Aroma was medium-roasted malts, with a slightly sweet and dry characteristics to it but a bit subdued like most Guinness beers are aroma-wise. Flavor was suprub. This one reminds me a bit of the "Foreign Extra Stout" and the "Extra Stout (North American)."
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3
To paraphrase Michael Scott, "Happy Birthday, Guinness. Hope you like crap." Pours medium-brown, slowly growing black with pale edges. Fizzy head dies away fast. Mostly nonexistent aroma. The taste starts bready and super-English, much closer to Newcastle than any stout should ever be. The roasted malts that surface near the middle are bland and dry, and do little to evolve the flavor as it meanders towards a spikey, overcarbonated finish. Hopefully it will be another 250 years before Guinness brews another batch of this swill. (4/30/09)
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a dark brown with a large creamy off white head that sticks for a while. Smells of light roasted malts, slight metallic, very little hop presence. Taste is light bitter roast slight acrid, a little caramel. Mouthfeel is creamy, carbonation is crisp, body is medium. Better tasting than the draft in a bottle gimmick. Light almost flavorful brew. This one reminded me more of a brown ale than a stout. Drinkable, but nothing special.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
On tap at perfect pint in NYC. Found an old rating I hadn’t logged. Its sweet but without a lot of backbone. not as bitter as regular guinness but overall less impressive as well I would thing more or 250th anniversary oh well try again at 500.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7
Bottle about 1 year old. Dark brown with a tall, foamy tan head. Creamy, chocolate aroma with light roasting and a touch of cafe au lait. Sweetish flavor, dark chocolate, vanilla cream, and a roasty burnt finish. Rather light and clean in body. Bitter finish seems to include hops as well as roasted grains. Decent but unspectacular. A bit too carbonated.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
11.2 oz bottle into English pint. Aromas of Sweet-Tarts, grain, mocha, caramel. Pours almost opaque black with some reddish tints and a thick frothy head and neat creamy lacework. Head dissipates, leaving a nice collar of foam. This may be considered a dry stout, but it tastes sweet to me (maybe because it’s past its prime?). Just slightly bitter aftertaste. Medium carbonation. I don’t understand the low scores here. I think this is an extremely tasty brew.
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 3
Very thin milky, brown coloured body with a very fast dying tan head - nothing at all to write home about - pretty bad for a stout, actually. Aroma of roasted malt, caramel, nuts, toffee anda slight amount of coffee - nothing strong though. Light-bodied; Gross, watery, malty, bready and yeast tasting beer with no complex flavours, no strong tastes and a foul tasting, bready finish. Aftertaste shows water, yeast, unfinished wort and a touch of nuts at the end. Overall, an awful beer and definitely not representative of the 250 years Guinness has existed. On the year that I visited the brewery (250), this was by far the worst beer that I’ve had from them, including the Chinese Foreign Extra - that is way better than this. Pass this up if you can, this is simply a bad, quickly worked and non-complex beer. I sampled this 33 cL botle purchased from Total Wine in Chantilly, Virginia on 11-July-2009, sampled at home in Washington on 02-February-2010.