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Guinness: Foreign Extra Stout

This export stout is/was brewed by Guinness in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland. It's achieved an overall score of 66.51%. Based on 4 tastings, the average ABV is 7.50%.

Historical Community Tasting Notes

Preserved from the RateBeer community archive (circa 2000–2018)

Found this hiding in a small local beer store. Not sure how it got there. Poured black as ink with a big tan head. Nose of chocolate, roasted malts, and cherries. Bold body and a smooth creamy mouthfeel. The flavor is very rich and loaded with good tastes, with chocolate dominating. The finish is nicely bitter. Far and a way the best of the Guinn
Guinness Foreign Extra has an extremely thick, creamy, beige head and an opaque, dark brown appearance. The aroma is of dark chocolate, dark-roasted barley malt, clean water, dark chocolate, and cherries. The taste is the same, but with some licorice, milk, and pretty strong hop bitterness at the back end of the sip. The alcohol taste doesnt really
dark brown black coloured body with a off white head a roasted malty herby hoppy aroma a herby roasted hoppy malty fruity bitter taste with a spicy little alcholic bitter finish

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Beer Listing

Date and Time Container Pub/Place and Where Strength ABV Colour Score Components Score Descriptive word(s) Book No.
1st Nov 2002 at 9:40 pm bottle The Ship and Mitre, Liverpool, Merseyside, England 7.50 black Taste: 82.35%
Head: 88.89%
Aroma: 80%
Ease: 66.67%
Clarity: 0%
 60.307% Guinness 35
5th Oct 2004 at 10:30 pm bottle (home), Liverpool, Merseyside, England 7.50 black Taste: 94.12%
Head: 88.89%
Aroma: 80%
Ease: 66.67%
Clarity: 100%
 71.424% rich 113
12th Feb 2005 at 11:40 pm bottle (home), Liverpool, Merseyside, England 7.50 black Taste: 88.24%
Head: 88.89%
Aroma: 100%
Ease: 55.56%
Clarity: 100%
 70.708% complex 129
17th Feb 2007 at 10:40 pm bottle (home), Liverpool, Merseyside, England 7.50 black Taste: 82.35%
Head: 88.89%
Aroma: 80%
Ease: 55.56%
Clarity: 100%
 63.594% dark-chocolate 201

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Other Beers (etc.) by Guinness

Apart from Foreign Extra Stout, Hop Horizons lists 20 others by Guinness. These are:
Antwerpen Stout / Special Export (Belgian Version)
Bitter
Cold Brew Coffee Beer
Draught
Dublin Porter
Golden Ale
Harp Irish Lager
Harp Irish Lager (strong 5% version)
Harp Strong
Hop House 13 Lager
Irish Wheat
John Martin Guinness Special Export
Mid-strength Draught
Milk Stout
Open Gate Citra IPA
Original (bottled)
Original XX
Red
Rye Pale Ale
West Indies Porter