Guinness (St. James's Gate)
Commercial Brewery
in
Dublin,
County Dublin,
Ireland 🇮🇪
Owned by
Diageo GB
Associated with 2 Venues
Established in 1759
Contact
53 James’s Street, St James’s Gate, Dublin 8, Dublin, Ireland
Subsidiaries
Description
It takes adventurous spirit and irrepressible ingenuity to do things the Guinness® way. From our humble beginnings in 1759 to the present day, we’ve gone to extraordinary lengths to bring you exceptional beer. But, while many milestones mark the way on our long and illustrious path, we’re not ones to rest on our laurels. As we like to put it: our greatest work is yet to come.
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7.5
Svart med lys brunt skum. Lukter melkesjokolade, havre og noe kaffe. Lett. Smaker kakao, kaffe og havre. Middels lang.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 May 2026
at 15:00
6.5/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Apr 2026
at 14:18
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
It is a nice beer, for me better than the normal guiness. The taste is good, sweet, malty, bitter, some hop and alcohol, powerful, tasting directly at the brewery in Dublin, on the top, in this touristic but nice restaurant.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Apr 2026
at 17:39
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
7/10
It’s always very difficult to rate a NA stout as I believe this is one of the most difficult style a brewer can get involved with. So, my expectations where pretty low this time. The appearance where perfect, with a nitrogen bulb this looks exactly like the original Guinness and the aroma where also more than less exactly the same. The body feels a bit thin, but then again, the original isn’t exactly like an Imperial stout either. The taste itself is the biggest difference, even if all elements as roasted malt, chocolate and coffee etc. is present the total impression is a bit less of everything – as expected actually. Then I think the beer needs to be a bit sweeter, not often I want that but as the dry part of the malt is rather similar to a regular Guinness there is something else missing and at this stage of dry it feels almost sour in a way. But anyway, not very impressive as a beer in general terms, but quite impressive as a NA version of a Guinness. Almost like a novelty beer, but might as well have this again sometimes.
Tried
on 09 Apr 2026
at 18:52
7.6/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottles from Morrisons. Black body with a thick beige head. Faint lacing. Aroma of toffee, orange, ginger and milk chocolate. Flavour of dark chocolate, charred gingerbread and a bitter, steely finish. Medium body with a smooth texture. Soft fizz. Dark and slightly hoppy. Pretty good.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Morrisons Supermarket (Various locations)
on 03 Apr 2026
at 18:31
6.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
It is personnaly not my favourite and the Irish Ale is a kind of beer not so easy to drink to get a good result. discreet malt, watery.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Mar 2026
at 14:53
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
For a macrobrewery and for the style, it is a aveage beer, watery, some malt, few hop, really nice orange and copper body, drinking it in our so called pub in Lausanne at some opportunities when I was younger. This kind of beer is nice during the summer.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Mar 2026
at 14:42
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4.5
Flavor 4.5
Texture 5
Overall 4.5
650ml bottle, huge thx Adrian V for bringing it to Karlo! Clear full golden body, thick off-white head. Heavily honeyish malty aroma, bit stale, sweet fruitiness. Smoothish dried peach taste, slightly stale maltiness, honeyish bit flat, ending astringent. Hops? Riiight... Sub par macro lager.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2026
at 21:20