Poll: Stouts or Porters?

Cool, as long as we all agree that Porters >Stouts.

 

I wonder what this poll would look like if there was no ‘I like them both’ option.

 

I feel like it goes the other way, the general drinking public has an idea similar to you and I's (that the stout is roastier and fuller bodied) but the problem is.thatany brewers don't follow that so you can't be sure what to expect

 

It is not generally realised that the first Stouts /Porters didn't use either roasted barley or roasted malt. They were brewed from brown malt.
When the hydrometer was invented it was found that, although Pale malt was more expensive it yielded significantly more fermentable sugars. At the same time Black Patent malt was invented so it became cheaper to brew using a mixture of Pale and black malts. Though some breweries still used some brown malt.
Point being that Stout and Porter aren't defined by the ingredients used.

 

Boy, this thread is still going!?!

I ran out of popcorn.

Off to the supermarket (whilst wearing my face covering).

Cheers!

 

The breweries don't follow that because understand that the 2 names are interchangeable. Any recipe can called either one.

 

They weren't defined by the ingredients used. Now they usually are though. That was a time before roasted barley was legal and used, during a time when stout might've meant a strong porter, but today we have some different definitions, in the US anyway.

 

I am back with more

Keep on swinging!

 

I enjoy both styles equally. It just depends on what style and or specific beer I am more in the mood for at a particular time and what options are available to me in that situation.

Eric

 

Like both, but tbh I veer towards the milk/cream/sweet stouts, thanks to my initiation by my niece, via a milk stout from the long gone Bandersnatch in Tempe AZ. I'm forever scouring TW's shelves for them. If Bell's Double Cream is there, it's always in the mix. Founder's Porter also. An Irish pub I frequented before it went South had Fuller's London Porter in its lineup.

 

Huh?

 

If you just had Founders I would slum too.