Comments on: Guinness Foreign Extra Stout: The World’s Best Extract Brew?

By: bhami

bhami — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 05:44:39 +0000

I have a couple of bottles of extra stout from the Nigerian brewery. They have the ingredients listed on the bottle. They are:
Water, Malt, Sorghum, Wheat, Barley, Hops.

The Nigerian Stout is a bit rough around the edges compared to the Dublin version. It seems to have an astringent character that is not too pleasant, possibly from the Sorghum?. But it is still OK. The Dublin Extra Stout is better in my opinion, but it is interesting to compare the two.

Cheers
Ben

By: Jack Wilks

Jack Wilks — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:38:24 +0000

Not sure about Nigeria today, but some years ago they were using sorghum as imported barley was restricted.
Guinness brewed overseas have always used a special ingredient sent from Ireland.
commomly called Guinness blending agent but goes under various other names.
In 1979in Nigeria sorghim was not used, rather 6-7% roast malt, 93-94% mashed barley.
If you can get your hands on the book “A Bottle Of Guinness Please” by David Hughes
who was a brewer for Guinness including Nigeria.
Chapter three “what’s in the bottle?” has a load of information
Check out the Guinness Collectors website, http://www.guinntiques.com for more
cheers, Jack Wilks, (A Guinness Groupie)
PS. I see AB and SAB Miller have also offered sorghum beer.

By: beeraholix.com

beeraholix.com — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:15:55 +0000

Guinness Foreign Extra Stout: The World’s Best Extract Brew?…

As for Guinness Nigeria, they use an unfermented, hopped extract shipped in from Dublin and add it to unspecified local ingredients. My guess is that certain ingredients are easy to get locally, the others are not of the same quality (or quantity) as t…