Extra Stout
Guinness (St. James's Gate) in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪
Stout - Dry Regular|
Score
7.01
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Every Guinness you’ve ever enjoyed can be traced back to this recipe. A direct descendant of our archival recipes, Guinness Extra Stout is based on a beer first brewed in 1821, when Arthur Guinness II set down precise instructions for brewing his Superior Porter. Sharp and crisp to the taste with the trademark Guinness flavors at its core.
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7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2023
at 21:34
4.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.4
Bottle. Blackish pour with a large foamy beige head. The aroma is faint with roasted grains. The taste is more well roasted grains, a bit of coffee, and some mocha. The palate is full and creamy. Finishes medium in duration and semi-sweet. Overall: Decent stout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Apr 2023
at 20:45
8.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
This review was imported from my RateBeer ratings.
11.2 oz. (350 ml) bottle, 5.6% ABV. I could not find a "Best by" or "Brewed on" date anywhere on the bottle or the carton.
AROMA: Sweet with strong scents of chocolate, dark (almost burnt) caramel, cola, milk, and coffee. The aroma really reminds me of a mochaccino with its mix of dark coffee, milk, and chocolate.
APPEARANCE: Pours an opaque black with a mid-height, dirty tan, head that dissipates slowly with moderate lacing.
TASTE: The front-end is lightly sweet and earthy, with big flavors of chocolate, dark roasted coffee, and caramel with a hint of milk. The back-end is a little dry with a touch of bitterness and a strange, metallic tang that quickly transitions to milk chocolate before fading away to nothingness. It's a nice balance of bitter and sweet with flavors that are strong without being overpowering.
MOUTHFEEL: Medium-bodied but leaning towards full-bodied. Smooth and slightly creamy with above-average carbonation.
OVERALL: There's a reason why this beer is such a classic. It's well-balanced, has enticing aromas with great flavors that don't overpower, and goes down smooth. This is one of the few beers that I could drink one-after-another and my palate would never tire of it. What can I say other than this is an excellent beer. Is it my favorite beer? No. Is it the best beer I've ever had? No. But really, all that matters is that I will purchase this over-and-over again because it is so pleasing on so many levels.
NOTE: Trying to find the right version of Guinness Extra Stout to rate here on Rate Beer was a bit challenging. When I did a search by name, it returned like 30+ results. I figured maybe it would just be easier to scan the barcode, rather than sift through all the search results. When I scanned the barcode it immediately took me to one of the beers, so I started to write my review of it. As I was writing, I noticed that the beer's description showed a different ABV than what it said on my bottle. Upon closer examination of the info on Rate Beer, I concluded that it was not the correct version of the beer I was trying to rate. So I had to resort to going back through the 30+ search results until I found the one that correctly matched the beer I had. Given the number of versions there are, and the (sometimes) subtle differences between them, I wonder how many people are choosing the wrong version to rate/review.
11.2 oz. (350 ml) bottle, 5.6% ABV. I could not find a "Best by" or "Brewed on" date anywhere on the bottle or the carton.
AROMA: Sweet with strong scents of chocolate, dark (almost burnt) caramel, cola, milk, and coffee. The aroma really reminds me of a mochaccino with its mix of dark coffee, milk, and chocolate.
APPEARANCE: Pours an opaque black with a mid-height, dirty tan, head that dissipates slowly with moderate lacing.
TASTE: The front-end is lightly sweet and earthy, with big flavors of chocolate, dark roasted coffee, and caramel with a hint of milk. The back-end is a little dry with a touch of bitterness and a strange, metallic tang that quickly transitions to milk chocolate before fading away to nothingness. It's a nice balance of bitter and sweet with flavors that are strong without being overpowering.
MOUTHFEEL: Medium-bodied but leaning towards full-bodied. Smooth and slightly creamy with above-average carbonation.
OVERALL: There's a reason why this beer is such a classic. It's well-balanced, has enticing aromas with great flavors that don't overpower, and goes down smooth. This is one of the few beers that I could drink one-after-another and my palate would never tire of it. What can I say other than this is an excellent beer. Is it my favorite beer? No. Is it the best beer I've ever had? No. But really, all that matters is that I will purchase this over-and-over again because it is so pleasing on so many levels.
NOTE: Trying to find the right version of Guinness Extra Stout to rate here on Rate Beer was a bit challenging. When I did a search by name, it returned like 30+ results. I figured maybe it would just be easier to scan the barcode, rather than sift through all the search results. When I scanned the barcode it immediately took me to one of the beers, so I started to write my review of it. As I was writing, I noticed that the beer's description showed a different ABV than what it said on my bottle. Upon closer examination of the info on Rate Beer, I concluded that it was not the correct version of the beer I was trying to rate. So I had to resort to going back through the 30+ search results until I found the one that correctly matched the beer I had. Given the number of versions there are, and the (sometimes) subtle differences between them, I wonder how many people are choosing the wrong version to rate/review.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2022
at 18:53
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Nice pleasant stout Black pour and a fine tan head Ok intensity in the aroma Moderate sweet and a fine carbonation level Coffee and roast in the flavor [Bottle from my mother]
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Mar 2022
at 09:43
8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Redoing another of my reviews that RB has lost. This beer is a classic. Not quite as good as their nitro version but still very good. Pick up a little bit more of the tanginess that is a trademark of this brewery. Excellent balance between bittersweet and carbonation.
Tried
on 16 May 2021
at 03:10
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 6.5
Malt, malt malt. Black body with off white head. Toast and biscuit aroma. The tin says bold and bittersweet and the hop is enough to stop the malt from getting too sweet. Toasty with a little chocolate in the finish.
Tried
on 15 Aug 2020
at 05:10
7.6/10
Tried
from Can
on 30 Mar 2020
at 17:30
7/10
Dark black bod med foam tan head. Roast choc arma. Dry roast choc flav. Med light bod mod carb. 7/5/7/3/14 3.6
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Mar 2020
at 19:35
7/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Jan 2020
at 17:19
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle pour into nonic pint glass. Appearance is opaque black with nice sparkle at edges of the glass, finger-width foamy light brown head with poor retention and trace leggy lacing. Aroma is nice roasted malt, caramel, vanilla, earthy bitter. Taste is bittersweet roasted malt, earthy bitter, caramel, hint of dark fruit. Palate is medium-to-full bodied with smooth, thick texture, average-to-lively carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, consistent with other Guinness stout offerings. Solid but not earth-shattering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2019
at 03:18