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Guinness Extra Stout (Canada)
Guinness Ltd.
- From:
- Guinness Ltd.
- Ireland
- Style:
- Irish Dry Stout
Ranked #121 - ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- 77
Ranked #27,024 - Avg:
- 3.38 | pDev: 15.38%
- Reviews:
- 106
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jun 06, 2023
- Added:
- Sep 05, 2009
- Wants:
- 5
- Gots:
- 38
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Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.87/5 rDev +14.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.87/5 rDev +14.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Guinness Extra Stout (Canada) @ 5.0% served from a single 341 ml bottle & 6pack of 330 ml bottle's
A-pours a dark cola brown from the bottle to almost black in the glass with small size tan head leaving a fine spotty lace along the pint
S-dark malts , roasted barley , hints of coffee
T-toasted grains , bit more robust than original Pub Draught , very dry finish
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-disappointing brew (July22/2012-341ml single bottle ) , recent re-review 6pack , still lacking something
prost LampertLand
Mar 17, 2023A-pours a dark cola brown from the bottle to almost black in the glass with small size tan head leaving a fine spotty lace along the pint
S-dark malts , roasted barley , hints of coffee
T-toasted grains , bit more robust than original Pub Draught , very dry finish
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-disappointing brew (July22/2012-341ml single bottle ) , recent re-review 6pack , still lacking something
prost LampertLand
Reviewed by edthehead from Maryland
3.79/5 rDev +12.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev +12.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Dark brown black appearance with a foamy beige head and moderate retention. Coffee, cocoa, stone fruit, raisin. Moderate body, light carbonation, creamy and dry.
Jul 08, 2022Reviewed by Almapercus from Canada (QC)
4.15/5 rDev +22.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.15/5 rDev +22.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
I prefer this beer over the draught. Nice and steady collar, full bodied taste and lightly sparkling. This version is more pleasant than the original export counterpart. Smoky scent in the empty glass. I went back to this stout after several years with real pleasure. Maybe not outstanding but quite good. Well done.
Feb 19, 2018Reviewed by Act25 from New Jersey
4.17/5 rDev +23.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.17/5 rDev +23.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
For my money, this is the beer to buy when confronted by a wall of mass.
Not the nitro, this one. It's a great session dry stout equal to any.
A: The thick head mounds and holds a convex shape above my glass, and the slowly descends into the man face on the moon, which becomes the bat face on the moon. Rich, thick, lacy.
Pours a tight, stiff, massive head from the bottom up; great retention w sheets of lace.
Smell: Stiff smell too, of roasted malt with pier woody, urban river, (the Liffey?) charcoal, coffee and a bit of dark fruit.
Taste: Follows the smell, with charcoal dominent: Roasty malts, with coffee and dark fruit then a modest bitter from grassy hops and a stiff, tangy sour note that adds complexity; the finish is long, woody, dry and roasty.
Mouthfeel: Medium to full body with low carbonation. Chewy, good with food and in black & Tans in a good way.
Overall: Extra Stout is brewed in Canada for US distribution. It's superior to any other low alcohol dry stout that I have found.
Nov 03, 2017Not the nitro, this one. It's a great session dry stout equal to any.
A: The thick head mounds and holds a convex shape above my glass, and the slowly descends into the man face on the moon, which becomes the bat face on the moon. Rich, thick, lacy.
Pours a tight, stiff, massive head from the bottom up; great retention w sheets of lace.
Smell: Stiff smell too, of roasted malt with pier woody, urban river, (the Liffey?) charcoal, coffee and a bit of dark fruit.
Taste: Follows the smell, with charcoal dominent: Roasty malts, with coffee and dark fruit then a modest bitter from grassy hops and a stiff, tangy sour note that adds complexity; the finish is long, woody, dry and roasty.
Mouthfeel: Medium to full body with low carbonation. Chewy, good with food and in black & Tans in a good way.
Overall: Extra Stout is brewed in Canada for US distribution. It's superior to any other low alcohol dry stout that I have found.
Rated by OzmanBey from Massachusetts
4.75/5 rDev +40.5%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
4.75/5 rDev +40.5%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
Don't know why but the Canadian version seems to have a little extra bitter bite, either way it's delicious. Salante
Sep 16, 2017Reviewed by Folderol from New Jersey
2.48/5 rDev -26.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.48/5 rDev -26.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
This beer is an abomination. That's the best word for it. It looks like Guinness, pours like Guinness, the label says Guinness... but this is not Guinness. Contract brewed in Canada, this tastes like bland yellow beer with a shot of Guinness extract added. Which is pretty much how it's made.
Seek out the real deal brewed in Ireland, or better yet the Foreign Extra Stout.
Aug 17, 2016Seek out the real deal brewed in Ireland, or better yet the Foreign Extra Stout.
Reviewed by TheDoctor from Canada (QC)
3.42/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.42/5 rDev +1.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Serving: Bottle
Pours an opaque black with three fingers of off-white head, which settles to a chunky cap. Nutty, slightly toasty aroma with a hint of chocolate and brown sugar in the background. Roasted flavor with hard water and a little cocoa; and not much else. Thinnish feel with medium body and carbonation and a smooth, soft finish. Decent beer with a simple but tasty profile. Nothing mind-blowing, though.
Feb 28, 2016Pours an opaque black with three fingers of off-white head, which settles to a chunky cap. Nutty, slightly toasty aroma with a hint of chocolate and brown sugar in the background. Roasted flavor with hard water and a little cocoa; and not much else. Thinnish feel with medium body and carbonation and a smooth, soft finish. Decent beer with a simple but tasty profile. Nothing mind-blowing, though.
Reviewed by Pantalones from Virginia
3.56/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Bottle number four from the six-pack. What I believe to be a Julian date code reads "L5013"... so bottled on January 13th, 2015? Yikes. I suppose the stout holds up a lot better with that kind of age on it than the dry-hopped and non-roasty Guinness Blonde, though, so onward with the review anyway!
Pours a clear but very dark brown, looking a bit soda-like. Settles into the familiar Guinness black once in the glass; holding it up to light makes some very dark red-brown visible in spots, but for the most part it's pretty much black. I poured a bit quicker than I probably should have and kicked up a huge head of tan foam; a few minutes later this has shrunk into a still-pretty-thick layer on top, leaving a lot of lacing behind on its way. While said foam is not as pretty (or permanent) as that from Guinness Draught it's still got a nice-looking color and texture to it.
Smell is roasty, some sweet maltiness, and a bit of an almost metallic-seeming sourness hiding behind those smells. When that last bit comes across as more sourish than metallic and blends in with the other smells it's nice (almost a sourish fruity thing going on there), but when it comes across a little more metallic it's a bit offputting. Overall a pretty nice smell, though.
Taste is similar to the smell, but better overall I'd say. A bit roasty, something like dark bread and a bit of a burnt/almost ashy sort of thing, along with some of that sourish fruity thing I got from the smell (though it's less noticeable in the taste and doesn't ever tend to come across as metallic here, thankfully!) Some near-burnt/ashy roastiness tends to linger more than the other flavors, along with a bit of the dark bread at times. Burps are where the sourish fruity-ish flavor makes its reappearance alongside the dark-bready taste -- guessing that fruity bit is a yeast thing? Seems like fruity yeast presences in beer tend to come out more than a lot of other flavors in burps for me, anyway. I'm a bit surprised that I'm occasionally picking up the tiniest hint of a leafy hop bitterness on the end when I take several drinks in quick succession -- Guinness isn't really something I think of as a "hoppy" beer to begin with, how in the world did they manage to get that to survive over a year past bottling!?
I'm honestly surprised at how thin this feels -- don't recall really noticing it before, but the "Extra Stout" Guinness does indeed have a "not-so-stout" mouthfeel to it. Despite that, it still doesn't have any real negative features to the mouthfeel; it's pretty drinkable, doesn't feel harsh or prickly from carbonation or anything. Just almost weirdly thin. Would probably be a nice warmer-weather stout or one you'd drink a couple pints of at a pub, though, now that I think about it.
Overall, this is a pretty nice beer -- I'm slightly disappointed that I have once again ended up with year-old beer, but in this case I don't think a year of unintentional aging hurt it much (if at all), as what's in my glass right now seems very similar to the Guinness Extra Stout I had for the first time last year. I've heard that Guinness in the US is going to be imported from Ireland again soon rather than being brewed in Canada; if that's the case, I'll have to track down the "made with real Ireland" version when it starts to show up around here and see if I can find any noticeable differences. And after noticing the hop bitterness occasionally popping in on this one, I'm a bit curious as to whether that aspect would be more noticeable in a much fresher bottle...
Feb 15, 2016Pours a clear but very dark brown, looking a bit soda-like. Settles into the familiar Guinness black once in the glass; holding it up to light makes some very dark red-brown visible in spots, but for the most part it's pretty much black. I poured a bit quicker than I probably should have and kicked up a huge head of tan foam; a few minutes later this has shrunk into a still-pretty-thick layer on top, leaving a lot of lacing behind on its way. While said foam is not as pretty (or permanent) as that from Guinness Draught it's still got a nice-looking color and texture to it.
Smell is roasty, some sweet maltiness, and a bit of an almost metallic-seeming sourness hiding behind those smells. When that last bit comes across as more sourish than metallic and blends in with the other smells it's nice (almost a sourish fruity thing going on there), but when it comes across a little more metallic it's a bit offputting. Overall a pretty nice smell, though.
Taste is similar to the smell, but better overall I'd say. A bit roasty, something like dark bread and a bit of a burnt/almost ashy sort of thing, along with some of that sourish fruity thing I got from the smell (though it's less noticeable in the taste and doesn't ever tend to come across as metallic here, thankfully!) Some near-burnt/ashy roastiness tends to linger more than the other flavors, along with a bit of the dark bread at times. Burps are where the sourish fruity-ish flavor makes its reappearance alongside the dark-bready taste -- guessing that fruity bit is a yeast thing? Seems like fruity yeast presences in beer tend to come out more than a lot of other flavors in burps for me, anyway. I'm a bit surprised that I'm occasionally picking up the tiniest hint of a leafy hop bitterness on the end when I take several drinks in quick succession -- Guinness isn't really something I think of as a "hoppy" beer to begin with, how in the world did they manage to get that to survive over a year past bottling!?
I'm honestly surprised at how thin this feels -- don't recall really noticing it before, but the "Extra Stout" Guinness does indeed have a "not-so-stout" mouthfeel to it. Despite that, it still doesn't have any real negative features to the mouthfeel; it's pretty drinkable, doesn't feel harsh or prickly from carbonation or anything. Just almost weirdly thin. Would probably be a nice warmer-weather stout or one you'd drink a couple pints of at a pub, though, now that I think about it.
Overall, this is a pretty nice beer -- I'm slightly disappointed that I have once again ended up with year-old beer, but in this case I don't think a year of unintentional aging hurt it much (if at all), as what's in my glass right now seems very similar to the Guinness Extra Stout I had for the first time last year. I've heard that Guinness in the US is going to be imported from Ireland again soon rather than being brewed in Canada; if that's the case, I'll have to track down the "made with real Ireland" version when it starts to show up around here and see if I can find any noticeable differences. And after noticing the hop bitterness occasionally popping in on this one, I'm a bit curious as to whether that aspect would be more noticeable in a much fresher bottle...
Guinness Extra Stout (Canada) from Guinness Ltd.
Beer rating:
77 out of
100 with
306 ratings
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