Hi all, I heard that a few bars in the DC area have Guinness Foreign Extra on tap as of this month. I thought, surely then I'll be able to find this in NYC. However, I'm having a hard time finding it any where? Does anyone who's perhaps more clued into the beer scene here have any helpful info? Thanks in advance!
Yeah, they got a TTB COLA label approval for the FES in 50l kegs back in August. Probably many decades since the US got any kegs of anything other than Guinness Draught - maybe goes back to the short-lived US Long Island City brewery Guinness operated in the late 1940s-early 1950s. Looks like Diageo's new brewery in Maryland had a label approved for a 10% "Guinness Barrel-finished Stout" in October, as well.
Correction on the above - the Maryland brewery is listed only as the importer of this stout, as the keg label (top, below) itself even states, it was "Brewed in Ireland". Kinda strange why the COLA wasn't simply filed using the Diageo USA permit in Norwalk, CT unless, perhaps, the beer was brewed in Ireland but is being "barrel finished" at the Maryland brewery? That's what the "Barreled on: ____" and "Kegged on: _____" lines suggest.
