and Porter are dark Beer s made using roasted Malts or roast Barley . There are a number of variations including Baltic Porter, Sweet Stout and Imperial Stout.
Porter was first recorded as being made and sold in London in the 1730s . It became very popular in Great Britain and Ireland . It has also been moderately popular in Canada and Australia especially, and has been gaining popularity in the United States , with many Microbrew varieties now available. Generally, current or former Commonwealth nations can each have their own local interpretations of the style. Stout from England is generally sweeter in flavor. Many people describe stout beer as having a slightly chocolate or coffee-like aftertaste. Some small brewing operations have deliberately accentuated this characteristic, producing novelty stout beers like "Double Chocolate Stout ", produced by Young's Brewery in London.
Originally, the adjective "stout" meant "proud" or "brave", but later, after the it was possible to find "stout pale ale", for example. Later "stout" was eventually associated only to Porter , becoming a synonym of dark beer. During the end of the Nineteenth Century , stout porter beer got the reputation of being a healthy strengthening drink, so it was used by athletes and nursing women, while doctors often recommended it to help recovery.
Stout differs from porter in being darker and richer through the use of more roasted malt, with a higher Alcoholic content. As such the two beers are considered distinct, although sometimes it is difficult to distinguish what some breweries market as porter from a stout without looking at the label.
Stouts can be classed into two main categories, sweet and bitter, and there are several kinds of each:
- Irish Stout or is the original product. It is very dark in color and it often has a "toast" or coffee-like taste.
- Imperial Stout was originally brewed in England for export to the court of the Tsar of Russia . It is highly hopped, very dark and has a very high alcohol content.
- Milk Stout or or '''Cream stout''' has an increased sweetness due to the addition of Lactose before fermentation.
- Oatmeal Stout has oats added to it during the brewing process; this causes the beer to be even sweeter and smoother than the Milk stout.
- Chocolate stout is a name some brewers may give to some stouts. This may be because the beers have a very noticable dark chocolate flavour through the use of chocolate malts, or the beers are brewed with a small amount of real chocolate.
- Coffee Stout is the darkest and most bitter type of Imperial Stout ; and typically brewed with the darkest malt roasts. A few, sometimes known as Espresso Stouts , are brewed with real coffee added, which can also be seen as a Gimmick .
- Oyster Stout is a stout related to Oysters : this can mean that parts of oysters are added to the brewing process or simply that the taste is matching with oysters.
Examples of Stout are:
- Guinness - From Ireland, its Alcoholic content and "dry" flavor are both characterized as light, although it varies from country to country.
- Murphy's - Another classic dry Irish Stout, more popular in southern regions of Ireland. Less bitter than Guinness.
- Beamish - An Irish Stout, slightly less dry than Guinness or Murphy's.
- Samuel Smith's Oatmeal Stout - Samuel Smith , Tadcaster , England
- Carbine Stout
- Cerveza Negra , from the Philippines
- Mackeson's XXX - A typical English "sweet" Stout.
- Shakespeare Stout , brewed by Rogue Ales in Oregon .
- Snowplow , a seasonal milk stout created in collaboration between the Oregon Brew Crew and Widmer Brothers brewery in Portland, Oregon.
- Obsidian Stout , From Deschutes Brewery (also hailing from the Pacific Northwest).
- Ellezelloise Hercule Stout - a Russian Stout, brewed in Belgium.
- Dragon Stout - From Jamaica .
- Storm King Imperial Stout - an imperial Stout brewed by Victory Brewing Company .
- Sheaf Stout - From Australia.
- Sierra Nevada Stout - From California .
- Gillespie's Malt Stout
- Cornish Cream - a Stout produced in Cornwall .
- Baden Baden Stout From Brazil
- World Wide Stout - a very malty, high-alcohol Chocolate Stout from Delaware's Dogfish Head Brewing .
- Pike Street XXXXX Stout - a Coffee Stout from Washington 's Pike Brewery .
- Bell's Brewery, Inc. Special Double Cream Stout
- Young's Double Chocolate Stout
- Young's Oatmeal Stout
- Rogue Chocolate Stout
- Black Chocolate Stout brewed by Brooklyn Brewery
- Pyramid Espresso Stout - An Espresso Stout from the Pacific Northwest.
- Heart of Darkness, an Oatmeal Stout brewed by Magic Hat Brewery
- Bare Knuckle Stout, brewed by Anheuser-Busch
- St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout , brewed by McAuslan Brewery in Quebec , Canada
- St. Peter's Cream Stout, brewed by St. Peter's Brewery in Suffolk, UK
- Midnight Sun Espresso Stout , by Yukon Brewing , Canada
- Mother's Milk - a Milk Stout brewed by Keegan Ales , Kingston NY
- Selkirk Stout (cherry Stout), by Mount Begbie Brewing, Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada.
- Coopers Best Extra Stout - brewed in Adelaide , South Australia
- Old Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout
- Nelson Brewing - Blackheart Oatmeal Stout - Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
- Crannog Organic Ales - Back Hand Of God Stout - Sorrento, British Columbia Canada
- Stockyard Oatmeal Stout - brewed in the Irish tradition in Chicago, IL, USA
- Kunstmann Bock - Valdivia, Chile
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