Guinness goes small batch?

Posted by Patrick under Dublin + Belgium:2005

While strolling through Temple Bar, I wandered into the Ha’Penny Bridge Inn to get a half (and a stop in the loo). To my surprise, I found a beer called Brew 39, by Guinness.

This is the first of the series, according to the beer mat, which will be a “range of new and different stouts…each available for six months only in selected bars.”

Brew 39 is different, as has “a distinct finish from the later addition of hops.” It does have a slightly more hoppy finish, but still won’t register on the palettes of our American Imperial/double everything sensbilities. I suspect we’ll never see this series of beers in the US, so you’ll have to take my word for it.