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STOUT |
Stout
is a dark
beer made using roasted
malts or roast barley. It was
originally a variant of
porter beer. 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
British Commonwealth nations can
each have their own local interpretations of the style.
Stout from
England is generally sweeter in
flavor.
History
Originally, the adjective "stout"
meant "proud" or "brave", but later, after the
fourteenth century, "stout" came
to mean "strong." The first use of the word stout
about beer was the Stout-Porter brewed by
Guinness of Ireland in
1820, although Guinness had been
brewing porters since
1759. "Stout" still meant only
"strong" and it could be related to any kind of beer, as
long as it was strong: in the
UK 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.
Types of stout
Stouts can be classed into two main
categories, sweet and bitter, and there are several kinds
of each:
-
Irish stout
or Dry stout 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 Sweet stout 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
uses malts that give a "dark chocolate" (though not
necessarily sweet) flavour to the beer. A few beers are
brewed with a small amount of real chocolate, though
this may be regarded as something of a
gimmick.
-
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
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.
-
Beamish
- Slightly less dry than Guinness or Murphy's.
-
Carbine
Stout
-
Mackeson's XXX
- A typical English "sweet" Stout.
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Shakespeare
Stout,
brewed by
Rogue Ales in
Oregon.
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Snowplow,
a seasonal milk stout created in collaboration between
the
Oregon Brew Crew and
Widmer Brothers
brewery in Portland, Oregon.
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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.
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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
Double Cream Stout
-
Young's
Double Chocolate 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
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St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout,
brewed by
McAuslan Brewery
in Quebec, Canada
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St.
Peter's Cream Stout, brewed by St. Peter's Brewery in
Suffolk, UK
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Midnight Sun Espresso Stout,
by
Yukon Brewing,
Canada
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Selkirk
Stout (cherry Stout), by Mount Begbie Brewing,
Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada.
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Coopers
Best Extra Stout - brewed in
Adelaide,
South Australia
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Old
Rasputin Russian Imperial Stout
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