Guinness Foreign Extra Stout:
Hello friends and a hearty welcome to all of you who are joining us for the first time. Today let’s jump back across the pond (that’s the Atlantic for the uninitiated) and look at a special version of that beer that divides a room like no other: Guinness Draught, and today we look at their Foreign Extra Stout.  The beer takes the Guinness brew and amps up the hops and malt as it was originally intended for export over 200 years ago from Ireland.  The beer pours a the familiar Guinness thick black liquid with a khaki colored head that aggressively building and dissipates to a nice thick but thin head on the top of the beer and leaves nice lacing and a nose of roasted coffee and hops.  The beer’s initial taste is a nice smooth hop beer flavor that rolls quickly to the mid tongue where a strong and robust coffee flavoring (thanks to the roasted malts) is introduced along with subtle hop notes and a touch of cocoa.  The back end is very nice mellow with a good mixture of the hops and roasted malts that leave the after taste as a mellow mocha coffee flavor that would be just at home in a Starbucks coffee cup as a beer.  An awesome beer, and believe it or not, this is better beer than the Guinness Draught beer and I will be quick to add this to my beer rotation when I can find it.  Do yourself a favor and pick this one up and drink up, it’s worth it.  Very worth it.