Imagine living next door to this retired Guinness brewer. You're out in the garden and he pops his head over the fence....."I've just finished brewing another batch of Foreign Extra. Do you fancy a couple of bottles?" "Oh, go on then. If I have to." 😂😂😂
I used to make home brew , five gallons at a time , one barrel in use , one barrel getting ready and another five gallons fermenting . I bought a home brewing book by Dave Lines after it literally fell of a shelf at my feet whilst shopping ! Honestly . Dave suggested trying two beers to start of the beginner brewer ; Ushers USB and Guinness , my favourites . So he said buy some bottles of original Guinness and let the bottles settle for a few days at home . This was to get the yeast settled . Then pour off most of the beer off the yeast carefully . This yeast was used to make all the beer recipes in the book, or most of them anyway . So I made the Guinness brew and never attempted the other recipes because the home made Guinness was so marvelous what was the point ! I tried making a lager or two but I failed really and I reckon the water where I live is way too hard . Guinness loves hard water ; the name Dublin means black water or lake in Swedish ( Vikings invaded Ireland ) so this kind of makes sense ! So , use Guinness yeast and choose a home brew recipe to suit your local water , or carefully test your water and make changes by adding the correct salts etc to suit ; and be sure to sterilize all your containers . I found barrels were easier to use than bottles as the cleaning is easier , but bottles will keep beer better over time . You will probably be glad you tried , you do not need much equipment to start off either . Great channel , well done .
You reviewed the shop bought Guinness Foreign Extra Stout on your channel about 8 years ago and gave it a 9 out of 10. you should try it again and compare to the homebrew.
Your enthusiasm for this beer, and all the other beers you review is what makes this channel! Well done. Do you recon the X ingredient is some sort of prune or raisin? Cheers Phil
@@realaleguide Funnily enough my older relatives on my Father’s family still love Guinness Draught. Beamish is better, O’ Hara’s nitro superior. You can still get carbonated mid strength Guinness in bottles even in some places pint bottles. But they ceased to be bottle conditioned in 2000. O’ Hara’s Irish stout was described by an Irish Times writer as how Stout used to taste in 2000.
It's the best Guinness product. I wouldn't mind tasting the FE from any of the other African countries, Malaysia and the other 39 countries where FE is produced. They apparently all taste different when the FE wort is mixed with the local pale ales. Also, I'd recommend grabbing the new Aldi-exclusive Goose Island, Goose on the Loose, India Pale Lager, it's a beauty in my opinion.
@@danieloliver4558 Yes, there's three Nigerian breweries that brew Foreign Extra for the UK market, but they use the same pale ale mixture, I was talking about the numerous other breweries in other African countries and Asian countries who use a different pale ale.
This takes niche beers to a new level.....looks really good, the foreign extra stout is excellent, I like ordinary Guinness, but the depth of flavour is much better in foreign extra
Foreign Extra is a little thin in body, this homebrew looks like the absolute best of all worlds...seems to have all the body of draught Guinness but the richness of the Foreign Extra... By the way Foreign Extra is usually made abroad by brewing a light local beer and simply adding the 'Guiness' extract...from Dublin.. this home-brew is likely far better than any Foreign Extra stout available throughout the world.
That's what drinking beer should be about, just enjoy it..Well done to the guy that brewed it, on the topic of changing the beers Di-mageo is guilty of it, its to get the younger generation in with more disposable income, even the lagers have been changed to make them milder.. I remember 40 years ago when I first started to drink the Guinness was much better than today.
This was very interesting like going back with a time machine but someone skilled brewed it today to the original recipe. It looked amazing in the glass would love to try it. Modern Guinness like so many once great beers are brewed with a spreadsheet in mind. I do enjoy the Draught Guinness because I do like the smoothness but there's much better stouts flavour wise. Their Nigerian foreign extra is so much better with some nice fruit cake like flavours. I bet even that isn't a patch on the Original recreated here though.
What a great looking beer made my mouth water just looking at it your right about the chocolate completely different from when I was eating it in the 60s and 70s
Love both the Nigerian and the Dublin brewed Foreign Extra, remembering Guinness from 30 years ago, I think it was around 4.5abv? And it was class, such a shame what they did to it. Well done to your mystery master brewer, I used to homebrew stout (1980s) and never got it right, always too sweet and couldn't achieve a higher abv, let alone this masterpiece you've been drinking.
Good question, Salty. Perhaps a collaboration between the channels? RACB & The Guinness Guru share a very special pint of "Guinness". That sort of vibe. The marketing guy in me likes that a lot. I'm sure it would do very well.
How does it compare to the West Indies Guinness?? I am the same as you with Guinness, it’s ok however when I tried the West Indies it blew me away like your reaction to this one so just wondering what you reckon? 👍
What a waste, to never drink a second bottle, someone who doesn't appreciate it as much as you do may either drink it or throw it away after you're gone.
Totally agree with you that Guinness of today is a poor example of what it use to be. It annoys me greatly when the brewery has the audacity to call the modern day version “Guinness Original”. Absolutely disgraceful.
Some 30 years ago there was always that one pub down Charring Cross road where you could get real Guinness from Ireland...which tasted a bit like Beamish stout which I thought was the best stout around.....then at some point there was no longer any distinction between Guinness from here or anywhere and it all tasted the same... kind of refreshing but bland.... Can you even buy Beamish stout anymore?
I also think its too presumptuous to say that this is what guiness used to taste like. you got a bit carried aware there. Isn't this 7.5%? I dont know the guy claimed it was the old recipe? It also gives Guinness nore credit than they may deserve, as even the old Guinesss still might not be as good as this stuff
Cadburys definitely does not taste the same as it did when I was a kid. Definitely not as nice as it used to be. It's still very nice but nowhere near as nice as it used to be. The same with Cadburys Roses and so many of their other products. I don't knot what it is but when I was in Africa, in Kenya, their Cadburys is very similar to how I remember it in the UK and Ireland, I wanted to bring lots home with me. I don't knot why the Cadbury in Africa tastes so much better than in the UK and Ireland by it does. It must be that the factories there are sticking to an older recipe and the shareholders are less focused on that market to move them to a cheaper recipe The only product that tastes the same as when I was a kid is Coca-Cola
that’s interesting to hear because Guinness is definitely not the nicest Irish stout on the market. Murphys and even the new Island's Edge taste much better, even on draught. Today Guinness is just a big marketing brand and there is a placebo effect going on with drinkers who think it's the best nitro stout in the World. I have tried Guinness Foreign Extra that is brewed in Kenya when I was in Kenya and I really don't like it, too strong and not very fruity. I've also tried the Foreign Extra brewed here in Ireland by Guinness in Dublin and it's the same, not nice at all. Would love too have experienced what Guinness used to taste like. Right now I'll drink Guinness because it's hard to get another stout on draught but if I'm get in an Irish pub and it sells Island's Edge or Murphys, I'll choose them all day. Guinness us my least favourite nitro stout even though I'm from Ireland. It's unfortunate they saturate so much of the market that it's hard for other stout breweries to make their stouts available on draught in bars. The best beer Guinness produces in hands down Kilkenny, a perfect blend of Guinness draught characteristics and red ale, but their Guinness stout is not great at all.
Depends where u get you guinness. Gravediggers blows any other pubs out of the water. Islands edge I think isn't great and Murphys isn't bad but a good pint of guiness in my opinion is a far better stout than the other 2 u mentioned
Murphys for the win! A much smoother stout, with a more 'milky' mouthfeel, and a really lovely malted barley meets hints of chocolate taste that is less bitter than the original Guinness extra stout. It is softer, more drinkable, amd sits very well in the stomach. Here in Cork, if you are to buy a six pack of nitro cans of stout, Murphys is actually more expensive than Guinness.
Looks *mega* Si please don't turn into another youtuber who insists on using _super-_ as an intensifier every 30 seconds - it's bloody irritating & you're in Barry not California
Great but, Simon, a top shelf in a conservatory sounds like one of the worst places to store beer. Do you have some sonewhere cooler and darker to leave it? I know you want them in your bar room but...
Nothing tastes the same Cadburys tastes awful Guinness is different, Stella is foul compared to what it once was (it once was nice for BBQ time), and Newcastle Brown is just vile copper tasting fizzy piss Really disappointing
@@megadesu69 I guess thats just your preference for stout over lager. Guinness is no better a stout than Carlsberg,Carling,Bud,Fosters et al are a lager
@@Coxy-b34 hard disagree. I love stouts from strange smoked imperials all the way to the very experimental stuff. I simply adore them. I also love Guinness. I get as much enjoyment out of a good pint of Guinness than I do out of a craft brew.
@@JimDownWell You like bog-standard,eeryday,supermarket Guinnnes? You realise thats not what your were drinkg 10 years or so ago? You realise thats not the original recipe Guinness made their name on? You realise it's 4.1%abv garbage?
Imagine living next door to this retired Guinness brewer. You're out in the garden and he pops his head over the fence....."I've just finished brewing another batch of Foreign Extra. Do you fancy a couple of bottles?"
"Oh, go on then. If I have to." 😂😂😂
Wow 🤩
I'd mow his lawn for a bottle.....
What torture...😅
I used to make home brew , five gallons at a time , one barrel in use , one barrel getting ready and another five gallons fermenting . I bought a home brewing book by Dave Lines after it literally fell of a shelf at my feet whilst shopping ! Honestly . Dave suggested trying two beers to start of the beginner brewer ; Ushers USB and Guinness , my favourites . So he said buy some bottles of original Guinness and let the bottles settle for a few days at home . This was to get the yeast settled . Then pour off most of the beer off the yeast carefully . This yeast was used to make all the beer recipes in the book, or most of them anyway . So I made the Guinness brew
and never attempted the other recipes because the home made Guinness was so marvelous what was the point !
I tried making a lager or two but I failed really and I reckon the water where I live is way too hard . Guinness loves hard water ; the name Dublin means black water or lake in Swedish ( Vikings invaded Ireland ) so this kind of makes sense !
So , use Guinness yeast and choose a home brew recipe to suit your local water , or carefully test your water and make changes by adding the correct salts etc to suit ; and be sure to sterilize all your containers . I found barrels were easier to use than bottles as the cleaning is easier , but bottles will keep beer better over time . You will probably be glad you tried , you do not need much equipment to start off either .
Great channel , well done .
You reviewed the shop bought Guinness Foreign Extra Stout on your channel about 8 years ago and gave it a 9 out of 10. you should try it again and compare to the homebrew.
Your enthusiasm for this beer, and all the other beers you review is what makes this channel! Well done.
Do you recon the X ingredient is some sort of prune or raisin?
Cheers
Phil
Your admiration for his craftsmanship was fun to watch! Thanks!
if only i could have this shipped to my house in America
What actually happens witb bottle conditioning is that a small amount of sugar is added to bottle which yeast then eats producing carbonation.
Downloaded this and the Bath tour video for my train journey over to visit some of London’s micropubs. Cheers for the content Simon
Enjoy the bank holiday 🍺🍺🍺
@@realaleguide Funnily enough my older relatives on my Father’s family still love Guinness Draught. Beamish is better, O’ Hara’s nitro superior. You can still get carbonated mid strength Guinness in bottles even in some places pint bottles. But they ceased to be bottle conditioned in 2000. O’ Hara’s Irish stout was described by an Irish Times writer as how Stout used to taste in 2000.
Wow awesome
Worth a hike for an interview????
Please do.
Love to see this gentleman.
Thanks.
Got one of these yesterday, shop next to work sells them all the time, great find
Great cold, great warm. They drink it warm in jamaica. Total different flavor in the different temperatures
@@Luke-Emmanuel must try that! Cheers
It's the best Guinness product.
I wouldn't mind tasting the FE from any of the other African countries, Malaysia and the other 39 countries where FE is produced. They apparently all taste different when the FE wort is mixed with the local pale ales.
Also, I'd recommend grabbing the new Aldi-exclusive Goose Island, Goose on the Loose, India Pale Lager, it's a beauty in my opinion.
Nigerian Guinness is sold in Britain
@@danieloliver4558
Yes, there's three Nigerian breweries that brew Foreign Extra for the UK market, but they use the same pale ale mixture, I was talking about the numerous other breweries in other African countries and Asian countries who use a different pale ale.
Great Review...and you are 100% correct. EVERY time the money men get involved in any product the quality goes down! Cheers. BANG!
I’d pay big bucks for a bottle of this… I love a good stout and this sounds like the absolute peak. Very jealous!
I agree especially in a style of stout that is rare
😃wow what a cracking home brew👍you lucky man I’m sooooo jealous 🍻🇦🇺
This takes niche beers to a new level.....looks really good, the foreign extra stout is excellent, I like ordinary Guinness, but the depth of flavour is much better in foreign extra
I have a can of Lineman Astral Gains Foreign Export Stout
Foreign Extra is a little thin in body, this homebrew looks like the absolute best of all worlds...seems to have all the body of draught Guinness but the richness of the Foreign Extra... By the way Foreign Extra is usually made abroad by brewing a light local beer and simply adding the 'Guiness' extract...from Dublin.. this home-brew is likely far better than any Foreign Extra stout available throughout the world.
I wish I was there drinking this; I do love me a stout!
What a speech Simon! 👏🏻Brought a tear to my eye. 🥲
The way you open bottles cracks me up! lol!
Glad you got to taste the proper Guinness brewed with love and passion. I've heard that Guinness is especially bad in Wales.
Guinness Guru went to Cardiff
@@oscarosullivan4513 Yeah that's where I heard the Guinness was bad in Cardiff
Another amazing review, Simon. Had the Guiness Smooth whilst in St.Lucia last week which is brewed by Heineken and really enjoyed that.
No it’s still brewed by Guinness
@@louisbeerreviews8964 Brewed by Heineken St. Lucia - you might want to recheck that.
hey! we need to see the recipe!
I love the foreign extra stout...... its a class beer (its also made in Dublin btw).... the west indies porter is also a great beer
West indies tastes better
Foreign extra St Jame’s Gate’s finest. Should be given to pubs in winter as it would be lovely on a cold winters night warming your soul.
Could you ask for the recipe for this? I'd like to give it a shot.
Better than a Happy Ending Massage. Enjoy mate.
That's what drinking beer should be about, just enjoy it..Well done to the guy that brewed it, on the topic of changing the beers Di-mageo is guilty of it, its to get the younger generation in with more disposable income, even the lagers have been changed to make them milder.. I remember 40 years ago when I first started to drink the Guinness was much better than today.
Compared to O’ Hara’s Nitro it isn’t as intense.
God what I wouldn't give for the recipe for that!
There is few things on earth better than a great stout
It looks perfect before you tasted it 🙂i can see how good it is before tasting
This was very interesting like going back with a time machine but someone skilled brewed it today to the original recipe. It looked amazing in the glass would love to try it. Modern Guinness like so many once great beers are brewed with a spreadsheet in mind. I do enjoy the Draught Guinness because I do like the smoothness but there's much better stouts flavour wise. Their Nigerian foreign extra is so much better with some nice fruit cake like flavours. I bet even that isn't a patch on the Original recreated here though.
And much better nitro stouts Beamish or especially O’ Hara’s nitro stout is better.
What a great looking beer made my mouth water just looking at it your right about the chocolate completely different from when I was eating it in the 60s and 70s
God... I would really Savour a bottle of this right now.
Your review itself is so memorable, so full of passion. Very special.
This is what beer culture is all about
Love both the Nigerian and the Dublin brewed Foreign Extra, remembering Guinness from 30 years ago, I think it was around 4.5abv? And it was class, such a shame what they did to it. Well done to your mystery master brewer, I used to homebrew stout (1980s) and never got it right, always too sweet and couldn't achieve a higher abv, let alone this masterpiece you've been drinking.
I didn’t know they changed the recipe. These smaller brews are vesting the big brews. Sullivan’s Red Ale blows Smithwick’s red ale away.
Some of my older relatives still love Guinness.
Maybe it’s because nitro guinness became common in the UK. I think Nitro stouts are lovely.
i read somewhere that they used to add a small amount of old soured beer to bring it forward - is that the x facctor
think they used to do the same with newkey brown ale and makeson when it was brewed in hythe
does this taste like the nigerian foreign extra or the irish?
It would be interesting to see what the Guinness Guru would think of this beer.
Good question, Salty. Perhaps a collaboration between the channels? RACB & The Guinness Guru share a very special pint of "Guinness". That sort of vibe. The marketing guy in me likes that a lot. I'm sure it would do very well.
He would love it.
How does it compare to the West Indies Guinness?? I am the same as you with Guinness, it’s ok however when I tried the West Indies it blew me away like your reaction to this one so just wondering what you reckon? 👍
Put me right off my Guinness. Never drinking it again. "X" could be anything... leprichaun semen?
What a waste, to never drink a second bottle, someone who doesn't appreciate it as much as you do may either drink it or throw it away after you're gone.
Are we being treated to a London Black review soon ?
Beautiful beer. Good thumbnail on this one. Should do well.
Totally agree with you that Guinness of today is a poor example of what it use to be. It annoys me greatly when the brewery has the audacity to call the modern day version “Guinness Original”. Absolutely disgraceful.
Some 30 years ago there was always that one pub down Charring Cross road where you could get real Guinness from Ireland...which tasted a bit like Beamish stout which I thought was the best stout around.....then at some point there was no longer any distinction between Guinness from here or anywhere and it all tasted the same... kind of refreshing but bland.... Can you even buy Beamish stout anymore?
How lovely. Looked the real deal.
Why don't you open the bottle on your 50th as a celebration?
Have to agree with you Simon on draught Guiness. Much prefer Guiness original. A much nicer drink.
I think you add sugar to the bottles to make it carbonated before capping not the yeast ;)
No
I also think its too presumptuous to say that this is what guiness used to taste like. you got a bit carried aware there. Isn't this 7.5%? I dont know the guy claimed it was the old recipe? It also gives Guinness nore credit than they may deserve, as even the old Guinesss still might not be as good as this stuff
No wayy! my favorite beer
Cadburys definitely does not taste the same as it did when I was a kid. Definitely not as nice as it used to be. It's still very nice but nowhere near as nice as it used to be. The same with Cadburys Roses and so many of their other products. I don't knot what it is but when I was in Africa, in Kenya, their Cadburys is very similar to how I remember it in the UK and Ireland, I wanted to bring lots home with me. I don't knot why the Cadbury in Africa tastes so much better than in the UK and Ireland by it does. It must be that the factories there are sticking to an older recipe and the shareholders are less focused on that market to move them to a cheaper recipe
The only product that tastes the same as when I was a kid is Coca-Cola
that’s interesting to hear because Guinness is definitely not the nicest Irish stout on the market. Murphys and even the new Island's Edge taste much better, even on draught. Today Guinness is just a big marketing brand and there is a placebo effect going on with drinkers who think it's the best nitro stout in the World.
I have tried Guinness Foreign Extra that is brewed in Kenya when I was in Kenya and I really don't like it, too strong and not very fruity. I've also tried the Foreign Extra brewed here in Ireland by Guinness in Dublin and it's the same, not nice at all. Would love too have experienced what Guinness used to taste like.
Right now I'll drink Guinness because it's hard to get another stout on draught but if I'm get in an Irish pub and it sells Island's Edge or Murphys, I'll choose them all day. Guinness us my least favourite nitro stout even though I'm from Ireland. It's unfortunate they saturate so much of the market that it's hard for other stout breweries to make their stouts available on draught in bars.
The best beer Guinness produces in hands down Kilkenny, a perfect blend of Guinness draught characteristics and red ale, but their Guinness stout is not great at all.
Depends where u get you guinness. Gravediggers blows any other pubs out of the water. Islands edge I think isn't great and Murphys isn't bad but a good pint of guiness in my opinion is a far better stout than the other 2 u mentioned
Murphys for the win! A much smoother stout, with a more 'milky' mouthfeel, and a really lovely malted barley meets hints of chocolate taste that is less bitter than the original Guinness extra stout. It is softer, more drinkable, amd sits very well in the stomach. Here in Cork, if you are to buy a six pack of nitro cans of stout, Murphys is actually more expensive than Guinness.
Why couldn't you mention Don Jeffrey on this video but did on the last? 😁😁
love this video - poetry for beer lovers! - any chance of the receoie!!!
still waiting lol
Isn't ingredient X just lactic acid?
As a former Brains publican I must say I'm jealous as fuck.
Would it be an 11 if it had the secret ingredient?
Looks insane that!
Looks *mega*
Si please don't turn into another youtuber who insists on using _super-_ as an intensifier every 30 seconds - it's bloody irritating & you're in Barry not California
Great but, Simon, a top shelf in a conservatory sounds like one of the worst places to store beer. Do you have some sonewhere cooler and darker to leave it? I know you want them in your bar room but...
X = gelatin from fish bladders according to google
Brewdog was ruined in the same way
Wow !!!
Nothing tastes the same
Cadburys tastes awful
Guinness is different, Stella is foul compared to what it once was (it once was nice for BBQ time), and Newcastle Brown is just vile copper tasting fizzy piss
Really disappointing
Wrong
Modern standard(pub/supermarkt)Guinness is awful.Don't know how anyone drinks it.
Well if it's a choice between Guinness or a macro lager, I'll usually take the Guinness.
@@megadesu69 I guess thats just your preference for stout over lager.
Guinness is no better a stout than Carlsberg,Carling,Bud,Fosters et al are a lager
@@Coxy-b34 hard disagree. I love stouts from strange smoked imperials all the way to the very experimental stuff. I simply adore them.
I also love Guinness. I get as much enjoyment out of a good pint of Guinness than I do out of a craft brew.
@@JimDownWell You like bog-standard,eeryday,supermarket Guinnnes?
You realise thats not what your were drinkg 10 years or so ago?
You realise thats not the original recipe Guinness made their name on?
You realise it's 4.1%abv garbage?
@@Coxy-b34 you're telling me that somehow me enjoying something is wrong?
I couldn't care less if it's the original recipe or not.