Stout beer is thick and dark and delicious, just like chocolate milk. It’s made by roasting malt or barley, and it’s basically the chocolate milk of the beer world: it tastes amazing but it’s easy to drink too much of it. Stout beers pair well with foods, particularly heart foods like red meat and potatoes. They also work well as a sipping beer, but not so much for periods of sustained drinking.

Stout beer actually comes in a lot of different styles.

Dry Stout beer is the most common type of stout beer, and was Irelands answer to overly sweet stouts of the UK.

Imperial Stout is a strong dark stout brewed in Russia, known for its high ABV.

Milk Stout tends to be the sweetest and creamiest of the bunch.

Technically, there aren’t really any differences between Stout beer and Porter. Originally, the term stout was used to described the stoutest porters in a brew with the highest alcohol content. So basically, stout beers are super-porters. The most well known stout is of course the Guinness Draft, preferred for it’s smooth, rich flavor.