Brewery: Guinness Brewery (St. James Brewery), Dublin, Ireland
Brewery Description: “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.”
Brew Style: Irish Dry Stout, 5% ABV
Recommended Glassware: English pint
The Ugly Truth: Ah, Guinness Extra Stout, the often forgotten little brother of Guinness Draught. This may be heresy, but I there are times when I like Extra Stout better than the Draught. Probably because the Extra Stout has just the perfect amount of bitterness to it. I know a lot of people who you say “Guinness” to and all they know of is the Draught, but these people are missing out if they don’t make themselves aware of the Extra Stout. It pours a shade, if you can call black a shade, lighter than regular Guinness. To be closer to the truth, you can see through it a bit easier than Guinness Draught. Kinda like the difference between pitch black and seeing using starlight. It doesn’t do that settling thing that Draught does, but it pours pretty nice with a tan head on it that is about the same consistancy. One thing I did notice is that almost all my glasses can hold a pint 9oz bottle with room to spare, but this was sold as a pint 6oz and it almost overfilled the glass. Either everyone else lies or these guys have trouble measuring. Moving on to the taste, I’m sadly stuck comparing it to its sibling. Take Guinness Draught, switch it from nitrogen infused to carbonated and add some serious bitterness and thats about right. It tastes damn good, espcially if you like bitters. I personally do, so I’ve always like Extra Stout. If you’ve never never had it, you need to go try it.
Verdict: Damn you Draught, why do you always get Extra Stout into trouble?! Your poor brother only is a 9 out of 10 bottlecaps, he’s slower than you!”
I have a question for the all-knowing, all-powerful Yeti:
What is the plural of Guinness? Would you say, “May I have two Guinness?” or would you say, “May I have two Gunnesses?” or is it something else?
Your humble servant,
Colin
“Gimme 3 pints of God’s Chocolate Milk” would be the correct way to order more than 1 at any pub, sez me. But I will defer to Remy’s call.
I don’t remember the grammatical term for it, but Guinness is both the singular and the plural of the word.
kinda like sheep…
Sheep are tasty
i usually drink hefeweizen but i wanted to pour my own black and tan for fun. i accidentley got the extra stout with bass ale. IT DID NOT WORK. I drank was was left in the 32? oz bottle and DAMN I WANNA MAKE LOVE TO IT. it is a great beer and everyone needs to try it once before talkin bullshit