/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11114401
Think about different 'types' of stouts first.
The 'meme' stouts are the more desertier stouts which I think is what most people on this board refer to generally when they talk about stouts. Between these and the others they have their own categories/spectrum i.e /chocolate/milk/dessert stout.

Dry/irish stout is traditional Guinness, which is there this comes from,
>>11114488
which is also sorta true because Guinness specifically uses nitro tap, which gives it a different texture, and contributes a large portion of what guinness 'is' to guinness drinkers. Canned guinness, freshness aside has some weird nitro ball gimmick which is supposed to replicate this but it doesn't really do it as well. For the older generation/non-craft beer drinkers I think this is the style that people most identify with the word stout.

Extra stout/ foreign extra is a different style to both; it is usually heavier than dry but generally focuses on a savoury profile instead of a desserty style. >>11114412
So this is perfectly 'okay' in bottle and is different from what you usually get on tap anyway for guinness. Guinness extra or coopers are both good, and generally more readily available.

If your option is bottled I'd recommend trying an extra stout, (biased, only because for me, this style is what I identify with most as stout).