Foreign Export Stout is simply a style (that any brewer can make) and does not imply anything about copying a beer by another brewer, FYI.
Most craft brewers have no interest in copying what Guinness does. Nothing against Guinness at all, but I find their beers to be pretty average and they don't really stand out as anything particularly exemplary. The goal for most craft shops is to brew something that differentiates them from everyone else, not to brew a clone of another popular beer.
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