Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle bought at Corks, Bristol 12/5/08. Jet black, with a tight, creamy tan head. Big aromas of milk chocolate, prunes, roast malt and astringent herbs. Flavour was light and creamy to begin with, before rum and raisin kicked in with bitter chocolate and a warming vinous finish. This is the most complex version of Guinness for me and is an excellent drink.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Black with large beige creamy head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt, liquerice and smoky notes. Sweet flavor with roasted malt, coffee, liquerice and slightly sour notes.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
(Bottle 32,5 cl) Courtesy of yespr. Pours completely opaque black with a creamy, dense, light brown head leaving some lacework. Rather odd aroma of burned malts and a strange, unclean fruitiness. Medium body with rather burned malt accents and an unclean acidity as well as some medicinal notes - could this be the sorghum? Burned bitterness in the finish. 140308
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
33 cL bottle. Pours dark brown to black with a minor redish hue. Fruity/sorghum and light malt aroma. Flavour is sweet and dominated by sorghum. Light roasted malt flavour which gives an almost sour acidic flavour. Ends with a roasted note and more of the same sorghum fruity note.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Black colour with a tan head. Aroma is roasted, smoked, coffee. Flavour is roasted, smoked, coffee, hop, alcohol, apple , hop. Nice beer.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Pours an almost black body with some reddish notes. Roasted, licorice-ish aroma with some coffee-ish butterscotch. Sweet and roasted flavor with butterscotch and some bitterness, both hoppy and coffeeish. Nice sweet and bitter finish. Full body. I found the beer to have too much butterscotch, else it is a fine brew, but it was more of a "fun to have tasted" experience than a "wow" experience. Rating: 6-4-6-4-13-3.3. (071123)[br][br]Bottle, thx to Maria. Cameroon edition. Looks really lovely in the glass, Dark brown body and a lasting being to tan head leaving lacings. Sweet and roasted aroma with a touch of licorice, and notes of coffee. Roasted and a bit sweet flavor, some licorice, respectable amount of coffee and bitter chocolate, and finally some dried fruit notes and a little bitterness. Full-bodied and dry. Lasting chocolatey sweetness and roasted malt in the finish. Cute. (080412)
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bored from old fashioned New Year dinner with classical dancing with retired people I escaped to my room around 1 AM to try the first beer in 2008. From bunch of them I’ve chosen this one as of new style and country. Found it in Farmahd Indien Supermarkt in Graz, and as brewed in Nigeria I have put it here so if does belong elsewhere, please remove it.
0.325 l bottle which poured dark brown, almost black body with medium brown creamy head living quite long. Fruity aroma, caramel with some slight coffee, quite nice. Flavor bitter, coffee dominating now, making it more similar to original than aroma would suggest. Alcohol is not felt at all. Finish was quite short, bitter and sour. Great Guinness is this one, but the flavor could have more...
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
Thanks to JoeMcphee for sharing - dark brown beer - flowery, almost herbal aroma - kind of tart flavor, with vegetal, root plant qualities - light acidity and roastiness, tasting almost like bile with cocoa in it at times - dry, odd, soapy/bitter finish - reminds me of Sam Adams rootbeer brew, which, of course, is gross.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Thanks JoeMcphee. I was extremely impressed by this beer. Aroma was rich chocolate stout mixed with warm cereal (akin to almost a nice oatmeal stout). Taste was a bit less on the "cereal" aspect but still a very quaffable stout. Mouthfeel was undercarbonated with a nice velvety and suede feel to it. Not at all sticky but slow moving down my throat. Those Nigerians sure make a mean Guinness.
330mL bottle, St Paul tulip/snifter glass.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9
Bottle at home, Compaired along side Special export Belgian. There definitly different beers... Loved the Statement on bottle. Imported from Nigeria for that special flavour... Deep red/black ... Fruity cherries hint of carnation milk in nose ... less body than Special export Belgian ... much more fruity ... cherrys ... little smokey ... little caramalised malt. bottle at home ... bbf 03 2008... drunk 03 2014... deep black.... thin tan head ... soft big berry ... light blackcurrant ovaltine ... tiny hints of cardboard nose ... dark sweet berry roast ... dark malts ... soft cardboard tones ... ive left this one too long ...some of the cherry tones still their... Bottle at home... Deep black... Thin tan lacing big blackcurrant sweet roast malts nose... Soft chocolate woody malts.. Light chocolate... Lught blackcurrant roast. 3.7..little past best but nice