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Rating: 80

Guinness Extra Stout (Continental Europe)

Brewery: Guinness Ltd. · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Variety: Ale · English Ale · English Stout
Alcohol: ABV 5.00% / ABW 4.00%
Preferred vessel: Pint glass
Color: Dark Black (Stout) (35 SRM)
Added by Brian
Last updated by Keith

GUINNESS® Extra Stout is steeped in heritage - a whole costume drama in a bottle. It’s naturally GUINNESS® a complex beer full of character that’s great with food.

Strong tasting with a distinctive roasted bitterness, GUINNESS® Extra Stout is our authentic carbonated classic. It’ll transport you back to an 18th Century world of stouts when the ancestor of this beer was known as GUINNESS® East and West India porter. In 1821, the definitive early GUINNESS® became known as Extra Superior Porter.

At 5% ABV, it’s a mature, conditioned brew for a richer GUINNESS® beer experience.

Extra Inspired

GUINNESS® Extra Stout is our equivalent of fine wine. With texture and tradition in equal measure, it’s GUINNESS® to savour: connoisseur’s GUINNESS®. GUINNESS® Extra Stout is beer to enhance the flavour of meat in a casserole and GUINNESS® to concoct your own cocktails. So handle with care.

Dark, Creamy, Rich, Thick, Bitter

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Reviews

  1. Review by Brian
    Rating: 54

    Brian

    drank this beer from a Pint glass in Denver, CO
    Oct. 31st, 2008 at 10:30 p.m.
    Comment:

    All malt, no hop flavors. Creamy and roasty. I don’t claim to be a guinness aficionado, so I can say from my own personal wanderings in the stout arena, guinness is good, but pretty plain to me.

    Characteristics: creamy roasty
  2. Review by avdgaag
    Rating: 80

    avdgaag

    drank this beer from a Pint glass in Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
    Jan. 19th, 2009 at 11:34 a.m.
    Comment:

    This is a nice drink, but not as good as what you get from an Irish tap. I’ve made a stew with this once and it tasted great, well recommended.

    Characteristics: bitter creamy dark
  3. Review by mjb
    Rating: 84

    mjb

    drank this beer from a Pint glass in Vienna, Wien, Austria
    Jan. 24th, 2009 at 6:41 a.m.
    Comment:

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  4. Review by nilok
    Rating: 82

    nilok

    drank this beer from a Bottle in Seattle, WA
    March 5th, 2009 at 2:55 p.m.
    Comment:

    I prefer this to guinness draft. It doesn’t come with any of the head-generating tabs and gimmicks that the draft does and instead comes in a simple, glass bottle. I find that gets a cleaner taste, plus it’s darker and more bitter than the draft giving you an experience which is like the draft, only more so.

    If you’re out in a pub and they have a good, really cold guinness draft on tap, get that, otherwise this just tastes better.

    Characteristics: bitter clean dark
  5. Review by Kyle Fiedler
    Rating: 93

    Kyle Fiedler

    drank this beer from a Pint glass in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
    April 22nd, 2009 at 10:42 a.m.
    Comment:

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  6. Review by Red Grant
    Rating: 90

    Red Grant

    drank this beer from a Pint glass in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
    Nov. 2nd, 2009 at 4:58 p.m.
    Comment:

    Very rich in flavour. I prefer this over Draught.

    Characteristics: dark rich thick

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