What proof is a Guinness Stout?

Answer 1

The Guinness you buy here in the US will be 4.3% ABV. But below is a list of other styles of stout Guinness produces.

Here's a list of the Alcohol By Volume (or proof) of Guinness Stout around the world brought to you by Gigfy.com...

Draught Guinness

Ireland & North America

OG: 1039 (9.75 Plato)

Alcohol: 3.4% abw, 4.2% abv

BU: 45

Colour: EBC - 130

"Draught-flow"

Canned "Pub Draught Guinness"

Similar specifications as the Draught Guinness, above.

Alcohol: 3.3% abw, 4.1% abv

Bottled Guinness (U.S.)

This is an "Extra Stout"

Alcohol: 4.8% abw, 6% abv (although one poster noted that they had seen 5.6% in their promotional materials. Michael Jackson reports these figures.)

BU: 50+

Continental Guinness

Draught and bottled

Alcohol: "a little more than 4 percent by weight, 5 by volume" (MJBC p 181)

"Strong" Bottled Guinness

OG: 1073 (18 Plato)

Alcohol: 6% abw, 7.5% abv

BU: 50+

Guinness Extra Stout

England, according to Eckhardt

OG: 1052 (13.2 Plato)

Alcohol: 4.4% abw, 5.5% abv

BU: 50

Colour: 9.5 Eckhardt's Scale

( This would translate into something around or over 50 SRM and about 130 EBC)

Guinness Extra Stout

Ireland, according to Jackson

Bottle conditioned

OG: 1039 (9.75 Plato)

Alcohol: 3.4% abw, 4.2% abv

Bottled Guinness

Ireland

"Similar" specifications as bottle conditioned

OG: 1040

Alcohol: 3.5% abw, 4.3% abv

Contents: Pale malt, flaked barley, roasted barley, English and American whole hops (RADA)

Note: This may be the same beer as the previous listed entry.

Foreign Extra Stout

This is a blend of Guinnesses

OG: 1073 (MJPG91)

BU: mid-60s

Guinness Extra Stout

Ireland in 1901, according to Eckhardt

OG: 1075 (18.2 Plato)

Alcohol: 6.3% abw, 7.9% abv

BU: 90 (!)