Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
17/12/2025. Bottle from The City Store, Heritage Quay, St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda. Enjoyed on Marella Discovery 2 during the sea day voyage en route to Barbados. Another good pour. Third Guinness FES I’ve tried today and this is the best. Aroma is moderately roasted, malty, fruity, camp coffee, dark chocolate. Moderate sweetness, medium roasted bitterness. Medium body, nice and smooth, average carbonation. Mellowing roasted bitter finish. Smoothest and mellowest of the 3 island brews tried today. Enjoyed this.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Brewed by W&L. The Lucian version is the base extract blended with Piton and this characterizes the beer. The stout part is roasty, almost to the point of astringency. But the herbal Piton hops clash with the Guinness, rendering the beer borderline unpalatable. I’m pretty sure this is the worst FES I’ve had. 6-3-6-3-12 = 3.0
Old rating from when I went to St. Lucia and on RB it was lumped into the generic FES entry.
--- Beer merged from original tick of Guinness Foreign Extra Stout (St. Lucia) on 11 Jan 2023 at 14:49 - Score: 6. Original review text: St Lucia