Guinness (St. James's Gate) Special Export (Belgian version)

Special Export (Belgian version)

 

Guinness (St. James's Gate) in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪

  Stout - Foreign / Extra Regular
Score
7.20
ABV: 8.0% IBU: 40 Ticks: 228
Special version of bottled Guinness for Belgium, France, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Brewed in Ireland for Anthony (John) Martin.
 

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7.1
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Reddish black with a solid tan he’d. Aroma of caramel malts. Flavour is creamy roast malt, lightly smoked. Burnt sugars at the base, lingering bitter finish.

Tried from Draft on 18 Dec 2025 at 00:00


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8

Bottle Porterfestivalen 2025-11-15 Göteborg
AR: sweet dry, wee fruity
AP: darkest brown, wee lid
F: sweet dry, wee fruity

Tried from Bottle at Quality Hotel Waterfront, Göteborg on 16 Nov 2025 at 19:49


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

From Delhaize, Brussels. At home.
Observations: I find the Guiness Foreign Extra Stout quite superior to this one. Consumed it a bit colder and faster than normally would.Solid beer though

Tried on 05 Jun 2025 at 13:12


6.4
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 5

330ml bottle. Pours a slightly transparent black with a lasting fine tan head. Aroma is mild dark malts. Beer is medium to heavy in body, sweet & bitter with good length. I don't really enjoy the mix of lots of hop bitterness along with the sweetness but if this is you then it will be great.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Mar 2025 at 04:10



7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Pours a dark almost black colour with a creamy head. Aroma of roasted malts, caramel, coffee, liqourice, some dry fruit. Bittersweet finish. Very nice.

Tried on 18 Feb 2025 at 05:19


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

Аромат приятный, не типичный для любого стаута. Пена тонкая, светло коричневая. Цвет темный. Пиво очень мягкое, буквально нежный кофейный оттенок плавно переходит в пряно-черно сливное послевкусие. Алкоголь и крепость напитка не ощущается и вовсе. Конечно пиво не такое богатое на вкус как его старшие братья, но всем тем кому не по нраву яркая сухость и кофейная горечь классического стаута, этот напиток придется по нраву.Уверен в этом.

Tried on 05 Feb 2025 at 06:46


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Bottle 0,3ltr: The wellknown Stout but the Belgian version thus higher alcohol and much sweeter and not so dry as the origanl one.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Dec 2024 at 11:49


9

Holy cap that's better than freaking anything.

Tried on 13 Dec 2024 at 18:30


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle. How different can it be? Slightly less dark red/ brown with a large beige head. Mocha, wood aroma with that sour hint behind. Seems a little less roasty, more creamy and hoppy with a less austere finish (than FXS). But about as good. Maybe this just shades the normal version.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Sep 2024 at 15:58