Guinness Red

Aye. It will be bobbins.

I love red! It is always a good idea, even for beer.

Will this just be Kilkenny/Smithwicks under a different name?

i have tried it and it is very very nice. i think people will be pleasantly surprised. The name makes it sound like a cheapo alcopop but otherwise, job well done.

Hi. My name is Simon and I work for Guinness and look after Guinness Red. Given that you had some questions about the colour of Guinness Red, I thought I would try and offer an answer.

If you have seen any of the pictures with it looking flourescent pink, rest assured – it doesn’t look anything like that. We don’t have any photos of it at the moment, so the pictures out there have been mocked up as people think it might look like.

It is actually a dark, rich red – like the colour at the bottom of a pint of Guinness Draught when you hold it up to the light. As soon as we do have photos, I’ll let you know if interested.

Hope this helps answer the question.

Thanks

Simon

Very kind offer of the tasting panel – we’ll bear it in mind! As soon as we know where and when we will be testing, we will be sure to let you know so you can find your local pub and try it yourself.

It is a red stout – same brewing process that produces Guinness but with a lighter roasted barley which gives it the balanced bitter sweet character.

Afraid i am off for the weekend now, but we’ll be giving more info next week – because of all the interest we are posting all the information in one central blog – http://www.guinnessblog.co.uk/blogs/guinnessblog/archive/2006/10/25/836.aspx – so head there if you want to know more and have more questions

Cheers

Having been to Canada several times and regularly drunk a beer called ‘Rickards Red’ which I found great , I can only hope that this Red Guinness is as good

Guinness Red is now available at every O’Neills bar on trial.

Found it quite light.

Amusing that people are moaning that it’s shit nitro keg without having tasted it.

Guinness is nitor as well and it tastes fine to me.

If you want the full list of pubs where it is available, head to:

http://www.guinnessblog.co.uk/blogs/guinnessblog/archive/2007/02/05/1227.aspx

I have just tried Guinness Red and it is DISGUSTING. I am very confused by this. I am a huge fan of Guinness … and any ale, red-coloured or otherwise.

It tastes like very weak Guinness with Ribena in it. It’s tacky in the way that alcopops is tacky. No depth of flavour, and far too sweet.

Ugh.

I had a pint of it the other day – quite tasty – a little like Fullers Red Fox but with the texture of Guinness. I reckon it will go down pretty well in Summer when the black stuff can be a little heavy to drink – probably why they’ve started the trial roll-out just now. Just to reply to the last post – The Goose is a Mitchell and Butler pub by the way – not Wetherspoons.