Let me debunk an urban beer legend that has been around forever...most Guinness isn't any stronger than "regular" beer, Guinness Draught is 4.2% ABV however, a "Guinness Extra Stout Foreign Export" is brewed to 7.5-8% ABV. I've gotten so used to the heavier, thicker stouts that I've tried in the last few years that I was a bit surprised at how relatively thin Guinness was. Nonetheless it was very tasty, with some nice coffee and chocolate balanced by light roasted malts. It poured with a big beefy head, with the effect that I think of as a reverse waterfall, the head starting off taking up the whole glass, slowly retreating to a solid one-finger depth. While there are many other stouts out there, Guinness is the granddaddy of them all. Initially, Arthur Guinness was aiming to bring back the "porter" style of beer, eventually cranking it up a bit and started marketing it as "extra stout" porter, with the name eventually being shortened to just "stout". All the stout brewers out there owe a great debt to this beer...cheers!
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