I really enjoyed this comparison. I find Guinness Draught to be much lighter and thinner than a lot of lager drinkers realise. The bottle version (Guinness Extra Stout) is 6% ABV down here. It has much more body and a lot more flavour. Coopers Extra Stout has a cult following in Australia and their stout homebrew kit is one of the more popular dark beer kits on the market. The Simply Export Stout sounds like a winner. Cheers!
A 6% Guinness sounds lovely. We can get the Guinness Foreign Extra Stout which is 7.5%, it is not bad, although too many coffee notes for me, (Nige here). There maybe one of the Coopers Stouts coming to the channel before the end of the year.
Great review guys, I've just got a simply export stout kit to brew for a mate. Guinness can actually make a decent beer, (Guinness West Indies porter) Imagine if they did that on on nitro in a pub 😋 Many years ago my first all grain stout was fermented with yeast scavenged from bottled Guinness and it turned out amazing. At that time you could buy Murphy's, Guinness and Beamish Irish stout on tap in the UK, Beamish was my go-to Irish stout at that time , that was when the production of inspector Morse was sponsored by Beamish. A year ago I got back into all grain and have concentrated on lagers but 12 days ago I started an all-grain batch of stout fermented with Nottingham yeast under pressure. I served myself two pints last night straight from the fermenter (not kegged yet) it's not going to last long 😋. These days might go to nitro canned stout would be Brewdog black heart, I'd love to try on tap in a pub one day If you get a chance I would recommend you try London Black by Anspach & Hobday. Is a great session porter on nitro.🍻🍻
Thank you very much. The West Indies Porter is a good shout haven't had that for a while. I miss the choice of decent stouts, Beamish was rather excellent. I've never heard of Anspach & Hobday, I'll keep an eye open for it. Cheers! 🍻
We had a lot of comments about this video agreeing with us. I didn't think we were wrong but it's quite heartening to get that feedback, thank you. And yes, for the money the Simply kits are phenomenal.
Im not keen on stouts, when you were listing the other crap beers carling/fosters taste the same (fizzy water), and Stella and 1664 tasted the same (mildly better fizzy water), whitch leads me to beileve that its all brewed in the same place and UK/European beer has gone to hell. well I gave up with the shop bought years ago and got stuck into my homebrew, best thing I ever did, Im drinking Festival Razorback right now and loving it alot, thanks for the great reviews guys, it was alot of fun.cheers 🍻
Completely agree. You can find decent beers from independent breweries but it can be expensive. Festival beers are magnificent, I have dome Razorback before but a while back. I'm going to have to give it another go now you've mentioned it. Thank you and cheers 🍻
Hi Anders, Porridge Stout. Your first all grain recipe. But you do need to be more stout. Milk stouts do really well in a beer beef stew,/pie. In fact always replace beef stock with a beef cube and stout.
@@nigeandersextraordinarybee3723 Maybe in Foxford the pint of Guiness and pour was carried out with an almost fanatical adherance and maybe it does travel but very few treat the Holy Grail of Ireland with the same reverence, when I was there it was a different pint and experience to anything in the UK.
Aldi's Coffee Stout for the win! It's 5.6%, creamier from a bottle that both draught Guiness and the widget variety, full of gorgeous coffee chocolate flavours and it costs £1.59 a bottle.
@@nigeandersextraordinarybee3723 As a real ale man for three decades I avoided stouts and all because of Guiness. But in recent years I have discovered so many delicious ones. Your video has spurred me to make some home brew;. Thankyou.
Nige here, it is hard trying to copy it, getting the beer bland goes against every instinct. I did David Heaths Irish Stout grain recipe, it was an exceedingly good easy drinking beer, I think based on Guinness, or how Guinness used to be. Like all big brands, they have been destroyed and are converging on alcholic fizzy water.
I'm going to swear (twice!) but i preferred Brewdogs Black Heart to Guinness, and Connor McGregors 'Forged' to Brewdog. Im with you, Anders.....good idea to keep notes on your HB....I have a DarkRock Nectaron on the go that i'd planned to bottle tonight, only to realise i've forgotten to add the hops🤦 Looking forward to the 9.8%er......i pimped an EvilDog to 9.5% some time ago....things got messy, very quickly😄 Cheers gents🍻🍻 P.S, Anders....you should never refer to Scottish people as Scotch.....i was told off for that a long time ago🙂
Nige here, I Agree with the Brewdog Black Heart, that is a very good beer, we reviewed on the channel a while back and we were both pleasantly surprised. Brewing Evil Dog to 9.5% is just plain silly, it is so easy drinking as it is, you can't just stop at one! The 9.8% one coming up was not pimped!
Wow 9.8, I mean wow, well done. I can't begin to imagine the carnage. With regard to the usage of "Scotch" I only used it to wind him up, got absolutely nothing. V disappointing. 😆
I'm with you today's Guinness is awful, if i remember rightly years ago Guinness was bottle conditioned with a yeast deposit and loads of flavour, grat review.
Lads guiness in the can and on tap is served a mxed gas of 70/30 nitrogen and co2. The bottle is co2. Different beers different gas. Your lettimg the side down here with the lack of knowledge.
We did know that, the bottle has extra CO2 carbonation to make up for the lack of nitrogen. However the can and bottle are both awful, basically tasteless, so the carbonation is almost irrelevant.
Guinness is THE most overrated beer on the planet. Advertising and urban myth have transformed a weak session beer into something 'out of this world'. Any AG brewer can make a stout that dances circles around Guinness, and please, don't get started on the urban-myth BS. It is laughable.
I really enjoyed this comparison. I find Guinness Draught to be much lighter and thinner than a lot of lager drinkers realise. The bottle version (Guinness Extra Stout) is 6% ABV down here. It has much more body and a lot more flavour. Coopers Extra Stout has a cult following in Australia and their stout homebrew kit is one of the more popular dark beer kits on the market. The Simply Export Stout sounds like a winner. Cheers!
A 6% Guinness sounds lovely. We can get the Guinness Foreign Extra Stout which is 7.5%, it is not bad, although too many coffee notes for me, (Nige here). There maybe one of the Coopers Stouts coming to the channel before the end of the year.
Great review guys, I've just got a simply export stout kit to brew for a mate.
Guinness can actually make a decent beer, (Guinness West Indies porter)
Imagine if they did that on on nitro in a pub 😋
Many years ago my first all grain stout was fermented with yeast scavenged from bottled Guinness and it turned out amazing.
At that time you could buy Murphy's, Guinness and Beamish Irish stout on tap in the UK, Beamish was my go-to Irish stout at that time , that was when the production of inspector Morse was sponsored by Beamish. A year ago I got back into all grain and have concentrated on lagers but 12 days ago I started an all-grain batch of stout fermented with Nottingham yeast under pressure. I served myself two pints last night straight from the fermenter (not kegged yet) it's not going to last long 😋.
These days might go to nitro canned stout would be Brewdog black heart, I'd love to try on tap in a pub one day
If you get a chance I would recommend you try London Black by Anspach & Hobday.
Is a great session porter on nitro.🍻🍻
Thank you very much. The West Indies Porter is a good shout haven't had that for a while. I miss the choice of decent stouts, Beamish was rather excellent. I've never heard of Anspach & Hobday, I'll keep an eye open for it. Cheers! 🍻
Great video gents. Guinness have gone down hill big time. For the money, simply beers are amazing
We had a lot of comments about this video agreeing with us. I didn't think we were wrong but it's quite heartening to get that feedback, thank you. And yes, for the money the Simply kits are phenomenal.
Im not keen on stouts, when you were listing the other crap beers carling/fosters taste the same (fizzy water), and Stella and 1664 tasted the same (mildly better fizzy water), whitch leads me to beileve that its all brewed in the same place and UK/European beer has gone to hell. well I gave up with the shop bought years ago and got stuck into my homebrew, best thing I ever did, Im drinking Festival Razorback right now and loving it alot, thanks for the great reviews guys, it was alot of fun.cheers 🍻
Completely agree. You can find decent beers from independent breweries but it can be expensive. Festival beers are magnificent, I have dome Razorback before but a while back. I'm going to have to give it another go now you've mentioned it. Thank you and cheers 🍻
Hi Anders, Porridge Stout. Your first all grain recipe.
But you do need to be more stout. Milk stouts do really well in a beer beef stew,/pie. In fact always replace beef stock with a beef cube and stout.
Hi Mark. You're right I do need to do more stouts. I leave milk stouts alone, not a fan of them.
I lived in Mayo for 10 years and its true it does taste better over there and the more it travels the worse it seems to get... ?
I had some at The Devonshire in Soho recently and it was magnificent. It just doesn't bottle well.
@@nigeandersextraordinarybee3723 Maybe in Foxford the pint of Guiness and pour was carried out with an almost fanatical adherance and maybe it does travel but very few treat the Holy Grail of Ireland with the same reverence, when I was there it was a different pint and experience to anything in the UK.
Aldi's Coffee Stout for the win! It's 5.6%, creamier from a bottle that both draught Guiness and the widget variety, full of gorgeous coffee chocolate flavours and it costs £1.59 a bottle.
You are right, it is very good. Most other stouts have more flavour than Guinness!
@@nigeandersextraordinarybee3723 As a real ale man for three decades I avoided stouts and all because of Guiness. But in recent years I have discovered so many delicious ones.
Your video has spurred me to make some home brew;. Thankyou.
Should try coopers stout
So many kits to try! One day.
And to think, some homebrewers see Guinness as something to aim for and spend years trying to copy it!
Nige here, it is hard trying to copy it, getting the beer bland goes against every instinct. I did David Heaths Irish Stout grain recipe, it was an exceedingly good easy drinking beer, I think based on Guinness, or how Guinness used to be. Like all big brands, they have been destroyed and are converging on alcholic fizzy water.
@@nigeandersextraordinarybee3723 Do you remember what extra fermentables you used with this one?
I think it was just good old silver spoon.
I'm going to swear (twice!) but i preferred Brewdogs Black Heart to Guinness, and Connor McGregors 'Forged' to Brewdog.
Im with you, Anders.....good idea to keep notes on your HB....I have a DarkRock Nectaron on the go that i'd planned to bottle tonight, only to realise i've forgotten to add the hops🤦
Looking forward to the 9.8%er......i pimped an EvilDog to 9.5% some time ago....things got messy, very quickly😄 Cheers gents🍻🍻
P.S, Anders....you should never refer to Scottish people as Scotch.....i was told off for that a long time ago🙂
Nige here, I Agree with the Brewdog Black Heart, that is a very good beer, we reviewed on the channel a while back and we were both pleasantly surprised.
Brewing Evil Dog to 9.5% is just plain silly, it is so easy drinking as it is, you can't just stop at one!
The 9.8% one coming up was not pimped!
Wow 9.8, I mean wow, well done. I can't begin to imagine the carnage.
With regard to the usage of "Scotch" I only used it to wind him up, got absolutely nothing. V disappointing. 😆
@@nigeandersextraordinarybee3723 really looking forward to it👍
@@nigeandersextraordinarybee3723 yes, I was a little surprised Nige didn't pick you up on it😅
There was a little internal flinch, but I let it go.
ITS ALL ABOUT GUINESS EXTRA IMHO
Yes, that is not bad, but it's not the popular one that is everywhere!
I'm with you today's Guinness is awful, if i remember rightly years ago Guinness was bottle conditioned with a yeast deposit and loads of flavour, grat review.
I'm glad we're not alone! Thank you.
yes, all flavour has now been extracted, as I like to call it now, Guinness Water.
i will have em lol
Lads guiness in the can and on tap is served a mxed gas of 70/30 nitrogen and co2. The bottle is co2. Different beers different gas. Your lettimg the side down here with the lack of knowledge.
We did know that, the bottle has extra CO2 carbonation to make up for the lack of nitrogen. However the can and bottle are both awful, basically tasteless, so the carbonation is almost irrelevant.
Guinness is THE most overrated beer on the planet.
Advertising and urban myth have transformed a weak session beer into something 'out of this world'.
Any AG brewer can make a stout that dances circles around Guinness, and please, don't get started on the urban-myth BS. It is laughable.
Spot on! Couldn't agree with you more.