Comment - Guinness Black Lager
By Chris Mercer | 23 March 2010
Guinness purists will likely harbour dark thoughts about a lager version of the 'black stuff', but just-drinks thinks that Diageo may finally have hit on a way of successfully expanding the brand.
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Guinness purists will likely harbour dark thoughts about a lager version of the 'black stuff', but just-drinks thinks that Diageo may finally have hit on a way of successfully expanding the brand.
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