As someone from Cork where Beamish is brewed, it has an almost cult status here. I was honestly nervous that you wouldn't like it but delighted it went down well. Beamish is best!

I've spent forty years believing that Beamish (& Crawford as it was) was miles better than Murphys and Guinness. Glad to see that it is still up there and wish I had some.

A proud day for all of us from the land of Beamish! Been my pint of choice for years!

Pleased that London Black rated so highly. Absolutely brilliant beer, love the coffee notes and it's very sessionable!

Good to see London Black getting some love. I've had many pints straight from the tap room, it's magical.

I spent many many hours in the early to mid 90s drinking Beamish Stout (and Beamish Red) on tap

Great video, I was looking forward to this blind taste. Can we appreciate that an industrial mammoth like Guinness can pull off an alcohol free version that’s not the worst one in the test? They do know their stuff.

I'm not a stout man usually but I do like Broken Dream from Siren, so smooth and satisfying

Had some Beamish in Cork city and it was the best drink I've had in years. Incredible it's not bigger in Ireland. Super stout.

Beamish on tap was a great beer in the 90's, shame it disappeared

Love Beamish which is perplexingly overlooked even in Dublin - it's commonly available but as an afterthought on the shelves.

Good to see Beamish doing well. The owner Heineken spent a fortune on Island's Edge to compete with Guinness and failed miserably. Seems they should look after Beamish and Murphys instead. Thought Forged might have done better. McGregor bought the Porterhouse brewery (without the brands) to make Forged. Porterhouse have made great stouts.

As soon as I saw Beamish, I knew it would score high. It’s the best of the Irish big three stouts in a can. It even competes against draught Guinness pints.

Beamish in Cork City, Murphys in West Cork. Of the lot, a pint of Murphys in West Cork is king.

Recent stouts from both Camden and Brewdog now proliferate UK supermarket shelves. Glad to see your verdict in accordance with my 'waste of taste' experience. Draught 'Forge' is a decent, taste experience and I will try it in a can, when found. Always a tricky brew to get right. My favourite [not on your list] is Three Tuns Stout from Bishops Castle.

Menu dhu is the best Guinness substitute! Cornish stout 😍

Great great vid I love beamish it’s beautiful. Nice work again in-depth and educational cheers 👍🍻

The best Nitro Stout i have had was a small brewery in Maryland USA, Grandmother's Milk by Hysteria Brewing Company

Watching this made me run for the bottle of Kernel Dry Stout that I had stashed in the fridge... A beauty! I really like A&H London Black, great beer and fantastic brewery

Love the anspach & hobday stout, made its way to France on tap and in cans. Love it

So glad that Beamish scored so highly. I used to drink it all the time in preference to Guinness. Was gutted when my local stopped selling it.

Used to drink a pint of Beamish in the Albion just outside Birmingham City Centre 33 years ago. They would pour it, let it sit, and then "shave" it with a knife. Delicious. So my question is - where can I get it in the UK?

I appreciate that it's a Porter but London Black is by far the best !!!!!

Left hand had what i think was a coffee nitro stout a couple of years back. I loved it but i haven't seen it in a long time.

'I am not going to drink 12 pints on camera, again... *blank stare in the distance*. A trauma came back to haunt you there.😅

You really know your stuff , great review

Not had Beamish for ages, it used to be my preference to Guiness in my younger boozing days, they also used to make a cracking red ale as well

Did something similar a few years back on my blog, tasted Guinness, Murphy's, O'Hara's, and Belhaven Black - we can't get Beamish over here. Preference for me was O'Hara's, then the Belhaven Black, which was a big surprise for me. Left hand Milk Stout is an absolute delight on draft.

When I visited the UK, Stewart’s Nitro 80 was my favorite. Nitrogen definitely adds something extra.

First time I’ve ‘drank along’ with a blind test. Was just the A&H London Black, but fun all the same. Great to see in cans. I think it could also do with being a bit more ‘nitro smooth’.

That Camden stout is so weak and thin it's a travesty. The Forged is surprisingly ok. Need to find somewhere in the UK to get Beamish.

I've always preferred a Beamish over a Guinness, and despite being from Sligo there's very few pubs that actually have it, sadly. Lovely beer.

When we went to Ireland 6 years ago go I ordered a Guinness and the bartender told me to order Beamish because it was better. I didn’t believe him but got it anyways out of curiosity. It definitely was better and said “I told ya.” Wish we got it in the States.

Campervan brewery's Extra Black is well worth checking out in this category

Here in NI we now say all the cool kids drink Beamish. (tongue in cheek) It defo is getting popular in the craft beer circles.

belive me you........i am a homebrewer going pro.....but i just love your vids to death guys............u bring so much wonderful vids, we beer geeks can't get enof.............just awesomeness

I am Typ2 Diabetic, Guinness is the only stout I have that does not spike my levels, but to me, it's not the best stout but the one I drink 99% of the time. Tonight I will be starting on Guinness and then going on to Titanic Stout, the TS will rocket my blood sugar but tastes better than the Guinness.

Pierce the top of the Beamish with a bradawl or similar to avoid setting off the widget and pour it through the nitrosurge. Thats what i do. Minimal effort and worth it

You may want to try Nightjar stout by the Wye Valley Brewery at some point. Don't think it's available in can or bottle - draft only. It's delicious and a major contender, so definitely worth a trip to English/Welsh border.

I drank Guinness for decades but with so many local craft breweries make good stout I can't remember the last time I had one.

Well, I just learned something new today - Nitro is actually short for Nitrogen with different gaseous characteristics for the texture! Thank you.

With the NA rise in populartiy I had high hopes for the Guinness 0.0. I've had one before and liked it but always intresting to see what you get from a blind tasting. And good on you, you knew it was low alcohol!

While on a trip in Belfast I really enjoyed „Belfast Black“ by Whitewater-Brewery. I felt like this was the Northern Irish alternative to Guinness :p

When the Madri crowd move to Guinness, you know something’s wrong 😂 great video again gents 👍🏻

Beamish is legitimately a delicious beer

You have made every Cork man's day with this review. One thing i think every stout lover in Ireland can agree on regardless of where they fall on the Guinness vs. Beamish (or even Murphys) debate: it was a gift to watch Island's Edge implode something like a mere two years after launch. Heineken Ireland pushed that * aggressively * for a long while. I hadn't seen an advertisement campaign as relentless since when white claw tried to establish here. "It's better less bitter" was the tagline... but was it really? Any stout lover i spoke to found it way too sweet. Clearly Heineken Ireland thought it could challenge Guinness's stronghold on taps around the country by presuming more people would drink stout if it wasn't bitter. And after all, palates have skewed sweeter in recent years. But beyond the coffee notes, i just don't get this apparent unbearable bitterness that people speak of. Part of what makes the Irish dry stouts what they are is the sweet side to the malts. Anyway, they figured they should make their own alternative and failed spectacularly, in part cos they just didn't understand what makes the greats special. Doesn't matter how many parasols on how many terraces around town you put up, tourists are still going to be trying the Guinness for a reason beyond it just being available everywhere.

I get cask stout in litre bottles from Bushys Brewery, IOM. Couple of squirts with a syringe and u have pint of smooth creamy stout with flavour (cask) like in the pub. Works out £1.8] a pint

London Black is the shit man. So good :)

Belhaven Black is delicious

Pity no Murphy's. A close second but for me its Beamish all the way. " Mother's milk" 😉

Honestly for me it's dry/irish stout over lager as a session beer; I love those darker, roastier flavours, the bitterness you get from roasted barley rather than the bitterness from alpha acids. There is a lot of dogshit out there though lmao, shame you couldn't get Murphy's! Great video as usual

Beamish is quality. Probably the only good thing about Cork. As a bonus, it's one of the cheaper pints in Ireland, which is a major positive given the extortionate prices for booze here.

You should use strong black tea between sampling to cleanse your palate.

I really enjoyed Forged when I had it on tap recently. I've come full circle now and enjoy a beer for what it is instead of trying to dissect every single flavour note. Leave that to whisky drinkers.

Shame you couldn't get any Murphy's, that's a really good pint. Haven't seen Beamish since the 90's, loved that stuff.

I love Beamish!! For me, it's the best!!! Last summer, I discover Island's Edge stout, it's a really good one too. Then, I'll put Murphys and Guinness.

It was a few years ago I did my chemistry degree. Didn't know CO2 had become super soluble in water over that time. Maybe that's why we've got all this ocean acidification.

3:16 "again" well, now I am going to need a link to that video^^

missed oot on Belhaven Black!

Love the tasting videos !! So glad London black performed well (think if it didn’t )🫣! Lucky enough to have that on draft in two of my locals up north ! Great job 👏

Right, I shall be down to Cork for a big case of Beamish then.

o haras is a very very underrated stout their leann foill vanilla stout is fantastic.

I love Beamish and it's still 5 euro a pint. If I'm drinking stout at home I don't like tha cans I want the Nigerian Guinness from a bottle. There's a 90's kung fu movie called Moving Target and the plot mostly revolves around the whereabouts of a 6 pack of Beamish.

Not especially traditional... but Kirkstall brewery's Tiramisu stout 👌

Glad to see Beamish outdoing nearly all the pretenders (including Guinness). But I don't think it's available in the UK except for in NI, which doesn't count. If there was ever a time for Beamish to relaunch in the mainland UK surely it would be now? It has the loyal followers, rich history and memes to make it work - plus it's usually cheaper than guinness!

O’ Hara’s single dry stout is my favourite stout. Unlike the Irish big three stouts it has a far more natural flavour. John McKenna of the Irish times described it as being how stout used to be. In the off trade I prefer it bottled as opposed to the can.

Do Guiness still do a bitter? It came in a green can. I haven't been able to find it anywhere.

I live in the UK and am gutted we cant get Murphys anymore. Tesco and B&M were the last outlets. Hope that a surge in the popularity of stouts will bring my favourite beer back.

Haven't watched the video yet but I clicked because I saw Beamish in the thumbnail. Beamish was my favorite beer for years until it became completely unavailable in the US. I love and miss that beer so much and I hate that they won't import or distribute it over here anymore.

Cloudwater - Piccadilly Porter is the one 😍

Wered you get Beamish? Been desperate to give it a bash

I find O’Hara’s to be a cut above both Guinness and Murphy’s. I’ve yet to try Beamish. Not sure it’s available in the US but I’ll keep an eye out for it.

It is a very forgiving style to brew at home, be good if you had brewed one yourself and put this into mix. (A nitro set up is relatively inexpensive)

HON BEAMISH!!!!!!

I only drink stouts and porters Love malts !! This style is OK Prefer i nice imp ! Emporers, nerd,lervig,brew York, left handed giant, an export India too is superb.

I love stouts, but I've never liked Guinness. I know it has a reverence and people love it, and they all go on about how much better it is in Ireland. I guess that means it doesn't travel well, and if a beer doesn't travel well, then to me, that's a bad product.

G'wan Cork! P.s. regular flights there from London and Manchester if you want to try a Beamish on tap :)

So clearly a fan of BA Impy Stouts (I mean who isn't) so... next blind taste test? 😉 Seriously though, great video and some real curveballs in there, love a Nitro Stout, and agree that a lot of the more supermarkety ones feel a bit safe and feel like they can't stray too far out of the Guiness shadow, so might need to track down some Beamish and see how London Black is in can!

Please sort out your graphics. It's extremely difficult to tell which beer you are tasting.

I think people only like nitro stouts because of the creamy looking head which reminds you of whipped cream on coffee. I have my porters on cask which has a similar creamy looking foam for less price also a better flavour, in fact the nitro beer was designed to resemble cask beer.

Actually thought on launch Black Heart was decent, doesn't seem to be as good last time I bought it. My go to stout at the mo is Reaper by Hackney Church, really good, not nitro though.

No Siren Broken Dreams? Jet Black Heart from Brewdog was a decent stout, and they did a nitro version, too.

Can you please center the thirst quenching poster in the frame, it is aggravating my OCD 😂

Surely you should have got something from Galway Bay as an Irish alternative? March of the Penguins from Williams Bros or Old Engine Oil from Harviestoun would be the ones from Scotland, although those are not really Nitros - not many Nitros in Scotland to be fair.

I'm drinking a Pollys Black Brook impy right now, also, technically the number one beer wasn't a nitro. as well as a few others. ace video though. love you guys

Surprised you didn't include Siren's Broken Dream in the lineup, one of my favourite nitro stouts out there but is a bit heavier on the abv That being said, Guinness is always my safe bet when I'm in a pub with an underwhelming lineup on tap. You just know that 9 times out of 10 it's going to be decent

Guinness is one of the most "it's fine" beers out there, have never understood it's popularity. There are about 100 stouts I'd drink ahead of Guinness.

I love Beamish!

I tried brewing a stout once, ONCE, it tasted like an ashtray. I went and got myself a Guinness. Turns out mine wasn’t soo bad😂

Is it possible to find Beamish in the UK…? Murphys has all but disappeared, I remember in the 90s you could find all the three Irish stouts on draught with Murphys having big advertising campaign…

No Murphy's, that sucks. Actually prefer Murphy's over Guinness, I find it has a little more flavor, not as thin and watery as Guinness. Oddly, the Guinness coffee version is better than the OG, IMHO

Murphy's is the best, closely followed by lean folean by oharas. The rest trail far behind.

I think traditional style nitro stouts are a style you can't really go wrong with, just good beer to session, I don't think the craft ones are noticeably better than the macro ones. I want more craft breweries to do nitro esb.

Trying to ignore the fact that if you don't say that Guinness is overrated and every other stout is better you're not part of the cool kids group... people forget that there are many variations of the Guinness, such as the Original (and the Porter and the Foreign Extra with higher ABV, my personal favourite). I know we're discussing nitro stouts here, but at least the Original is definitely worth mentioning and tops - IMHO - pretty much every other stout in the same category.

Weird. Local bottlo just started stocking the Guinness 0.0 Nothing a shot of good rum can't fix

Surprised you've overlooked Murphy's.

One you didn't have but should be available to you is Sullivan's Black Marble Stout. Along with O'Hara's and Bemish, a pretty good Guinness substitute. Murphys's is totally meh.

Does anyone know...Who pays for the nitrogen when this is served in a pub - the brewery or the pub?

Beamish is gone more macro since Heineken took over. Was way smokier before. The pint of the real capital of Ireland.

Nothing beats Guinness Original.