hello viewers I'm Ralphie and welcome to my channel which normally focuses on Scotch whiskey
reviews and other quality spirits but every now and again occasionally I'll do a rapid review a
short review of something that I I tend to drink and enjoy other than her spirits and in this case
we're going to start with it's now an empty can of draft Guinness I find it easy drinking
not too heavy with alcohol and I'm sure it still is nutritious as they've always claimed it to be
with all the extra iron and vitamins and all the rest of it that's one of the advantages of a of a
beer but uh now and again you find yourself noticing on the shelves of shops and at the
moment in the UK in particular in Tesco and other big supermarkets and you'll find that I'm sure in
them isn't you find variations in the theme and this particular variation is the West Indies
bottling of Guinness Porter now this is bottled at six percent of alcohol and this is bottled
at 4.1 percent of alcohol so you're looking at a standard Guinness recipe except it's 50 stronger
so you'll be wondering Rafi open that beer and tell us a little bit about it
originally brewed back in the days for transportation
by C to the Caribbean it Still Remains a popular beverage in the lakes of Jamaica and Barbados
so essentially you have the familiarity of their parents the nose
and the taste of Guinness but it's zestir the profile in is very self-evident when you taste
it but it's altogether richer it's more toffied it's slightly more syrupy and also the aromatic
notes that you generally find are lost in the later version of Guinness remain intact here
so there's a little bit of gingeriness and Mild vanillas particularly in the finish in the palette
it's a stronger beer and that self-evident as soon as you taste it so I would recommend that whereas
you would have a draft Guinness called and I mean talking straight out the fridge with the
West Indies version and have it more towards room temperature treat it more like a light wine when
you taste it and rather than having a few cans of the draft one bottle of the export strength
Edition it's going to be more than enough to keep you happy for in an evening and of course you're
just getting an extra load of these vitamins and other nutrients that you get from a decent beer
um I highly recommend it there is another version out there which is even more rare and obscure
than this and it's the Nigerian version which is bottled at seven and a half percent that's
as far as I'm aware the strongest version of Guinness in the market and you generally find
it in London major cities and Nigeria what more would like to say about this Porter West Indies
if you're tall a Guinness fan you're really really going to enjoy this as an alternative
to the standard can but here's something else I'm going to suggest to you that you try out and that
is have the cans have four cans or six cans and one bottle of this and when you pour your can out
nice and cold just top it up with a little of the porter strength and it's amazing how it lifts the
body and the substance of the typical generic available draft version of the Guinness there
you go now you know just sharing and finally to conclude because this is a rapid review
you can also get Guinness um sauce for your meals now particularly in the UK
and Guinness milk chocolate which has recently come in the market there you go
I'm actually surprised I didn't think too much of the sauce but see the chocolate
been really enjoying it
initially it doesn't taste like normal chocolate although the quality of chocolate is good because
you're getting the malted barley and the roasted barley nuts so you're getting the green nuts
but then there's some chocolate dissolves it kind of mixes in really really nicely
and what better to accompany a bottle of pork particularly on a wintry time of year
then a matching chocolate luxuries but just watch your waistline