Special Export (Belgian version)
Guinness (St. James's Gate) in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪
Stout - Foreign / Extra Regular|
Score
7.21
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Special version of bottled Guinness for Belgium, France, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Brewed in Ireland for Anthony (John) Martin.
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
In my opinion, it is a good beer. The taste is well balanced between roasted malt, toffee, hop and bitterness, strong aroma in the mouth, 03.05.16, at Prélaz, buying it at the ex intermarché, at Chauderon.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Apr 2026
at 14:26
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 7
330ml bottle as "Special Export". Pours black with a huge tan head. Aroma of dark malts, tangy dark fruits, roast. Taste of sweet dark malts, tangy fruits, liquorice, tobacco, roast and chocolate, moderate bitterness. Medium-full bodied.
Had this as "Antwerpen Stout" previously and it was significantly better. Sceptical as to whether they're truly the same beer.
Had this as "Antwerpen Stout" previously and it was significantly better. Sceptical as to whether they're truly the same beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Apr 2026
at 22:46
7.1/10
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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
7.5/10
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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
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
7.4/10
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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
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
6.4/10
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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
Tried
on 01 Mar 2025
at 12:07
7.4/10
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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
8.2/10
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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
7.2/10
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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