So, I tried Brewdog's new Guinness challenger (Black Heart) yesterday, that makes all three current contenders for the UK stout crown now sampled! Firstly, all three are good beers, and of course Guinness is omnipresent which makes it hard to compete with, it is however very variable! A pint in Dublin is not the same as a pint in London although the gap has probably narrowed in the last few years. There are pubs in London where a decent pint of the black stuff is possible, for example in the Guinea Grill, Mayfair.
The other two new pretenders to the throne though are hot on the heals of the best Guinness I reckon, and in the case of "London Black" by Bermondsey brewers Anspach and Hobday I think they may have actually surpassed it. Given the choice (although you'd never see all three of these beers on tap in the same pub!) I'd probably go for London Black and then it's a toss up between the big G and Black Heart, depends on the day, an interesting match playing out on the stout front these days though!
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