Guinness West Indies Porter Beer | 6% vol | 8 x 500ml | Mellow & Complex | Hoppy | Notes of Toffee & Chocolate | Porter with More Hops & Higher Gravity | Brewed in Ireland

Product Information

Almost all modern renditions of this style, especially those brewed in the Caribbean, use lager yeast fermented at a warmer temperature. But, this doesn’t mean that ale yeast is off the table. One of the main reasons many Caribbean brewers use lager yeast is because they brew mostly lagers. I would argue a perfectly good tropical stout can be had with ale yeast, though the lager yeast and lagering time can contribute to the beers smoothness. Several things combined at just the right time to make Guinness Draught Stout gain a cult-like following. In Ireland, on the other hand, where there is no three-tier system, Guinness can be directly involved, helping bars with the maintenance, construction, cleaning, temperature adjustments, and all the things that would affect the beer.

At this time the term “stout” was still being used strictly as a descriptor for a higher gravity porter. Guinness’s West Indies Porter would have been considered a “stout porter.” It was brewed to a higher gravity and made use of more hops in hopes of better preserving the beer on its journey across the ocean. No one has been clear with me whether that means he was a good harp player or a bad harp player,” jokes Wagner.

Style Profile & Characteristics

Guinness™ Dublin Porter – Originally created in 1796 during a time when porters were all the rage in London, Guinness brewed up its own Irish version of the style at St. James’s Gate and shipped to England. While the porter originated in London, the Guinness brewer’s Irish take on the style proved quite popular with its earthy and lively flavor. Today, the Dublin Porter delivers a sweet, smooth beer with dark caramel and hoppy aroma notes with a burnt biscuit finish for a beer reminiscent of a different time — when after a hard day’s work, you’d visit your local haunt for a porter, the “working man’s beer,” and Guinness would have been the respected choice. (3.8% Alc/Vol) After revolutionizing the two-part pour, Guinness asked: How can we recreate Guinness Draught Stout to drink at home? Debuting in 1989, the widget was Guinness’ ingenious answer. Nigeria is the brewery’s second largest sales market in the entire world, and Guinness has fourteen breweries on the continent of Africa alone. Brings a smooth and creamy moderately-full to full body, pushed by medium to somewhat high carbonation. Often has a slight warming character due to alcohol presence, but this should never come across as hot. Taste:

But by far and away when it comes to Guinness in the United States, it’s the creamy, dreamy Guinness Draught Stout that reigns supreme. The Origin of Guinness Draught Stout: The Two-Part Pour Photography courtesy of Guinness It wasn’t until 1798 that dark beer entered the conversation. During the late eighteenth century, brewers of the region discovered something. If you took beer with darker malt, which at that point had been considered a lower-quality ingredient that gave beer a harsh quality, and allowed it to mature in large wooden vats for twelve to eighteen months, you ended up with a pretty damn fine beer. The Tropical stout style is still part of the Export Category in most competitions, so without actually trying the beer it is hard to say which are examples of the Tropical style and which are FES examples. For this reason I am not including any recent award winners. Though I would encourage you to seek out the winners in this category and see if you can figure out which may fall into the Tropical style. This also means that when you open a can of Guinness Draught Stout at home, you have to pour all of it out immediately. “Once you lose that initial rush from the can being opened, you can’t recreate it,” says Wagner. Although not a wealthy family, the Guinnesses thrived. Even before the brewery, the family owned a very successful flour mill. And many of the family members became politicians or served in parliament in England (at the time, Ireland was still a part of the British Empire).

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From those meager beginnings in a rundown property, Guinness ended up becoming one of the largest breweries in the world at one point,” says Wagner.

Guinness was never too concerned about Colonial Stout encroaching in their market since they believed that these beers catered to a less discerning stout drinker. Additionally, their focus was on their most important market for Foreign Extra Stout at that time; the United States of America. Guinness in the Twentieth Century Debittered malts have their husks removed before kilning, creating a smoother less astringent malt. Weyermann malting company makes three debittered malts: Carafa® Special I (300-375°L), II (430°L), and III (490-525°L). Which is why today, if you look at the official harp of Ireland, it’s essentially the same as the Guinness harp…but flipped.In 1838, St. James’s Gate Brewery became the largest brewery in Ireland, and by 1886 it had achieved the title of largest brewery in the world. Sixty-four acres at its largest, St. James’s Gate had everything from one the world’s biggest cooperages to ports that accessed the river where boats whisked away beer from the brewery.

Crystal malt at 40°L to 60°L will give you some caramel notes and residual sweetness. 70°L to 90°L impart a lightly bitter-sweet character and dark fruitiness in the vein of figs and raisins. The Extra dark Crystal malts (100°L and above) bring burnt sugar and further dark fruit character, but start to show astringency as well. A good way to do this is mix your medium and dark crystal 50/50, and max out the entire Crystal additions at 10 to 12 percent. It’s an ingeniously simple innovation. One that folks in Ireland have recognized time and again. In fact, in the early aughts, an Irish magazine published a survey for readers asking them questions about the previous hundred years, including: What was the most important invention of the twentieth century? Tropical stouts can pair with much of the same foods as sweet stouts. Think rich meats such as venison, lamb, and beef; cooked with some sort of savory, maybe fruity, sauce. Seared scallops or steamed oysters are a couple other great accompaniments. Spicy Indian, Asian and Mexican food will also pair nicely, allowing the sweetness of the beer to compliment and cut the spiciness of the food. Curries that make use of coconut are also right at home with this style. One a fresh lively barrel right from the brewery with plenty of carbonation and the other a bit more aged. Called a flat or stale cask, this beer had most of the flavors and aroma, but none of the carbonation.Over there, you’re so close to the source that it’s just fresher,” says Hayden, “But I’ve had great pints over here too!” Previously only available in Ireland and the UK, Guinness is bringing these two porters stateside for the first time and offering American beer lovers a chance to experience how Guinness might have tasted more than two hundred years ago. Further capturing the essence of the historical recipes, each brew also features a stylized label modeled after the original bottle designs. We tell the story of the harp with our tongue planted firmly in cheek,” says Wagner, because when the country of Ireland approached Guinness about using the symbol, they said, “Nah brah, you have to get your own,” says Wagner. If you have any question about how folks feel about getting their Guinness Draught Stout at home, that answers that question,” says Wagner.