Porter vs Stout

Real Close in Flavors and characteristics IMO I do think porters have a more bitter/roasted malt profile and it seems brewers BA stouts more than porters

 

Wow it has been about a week since this subject has come up. This can't be resolved so lets just say they are the same but different.

 

Déjà vu all over again

 

I get asked this a lot... I really do think it should be addressed one day. I use to think Stouts were basically double Porters. Which makes sense most of the time... except this equation doesn't seem to add up (Victory at Sea X 2= Guinness)

 

A stout is a porter...I think

 

For the most part, I think stouts are more full-bodied

 

By traditional descriptions of the "entire butt" a porter is a stout mixed with a high gravity ale to make a dark brown libation with lighter qualities since the 1800's. Love em' both, but Americans have taken the style to more of a stout level.....no complaints here, yet the style has suffered. You can put some brown ales in there as well that border on porter stout levels.

 

Please search the forums before posting. This question has come up a ridiculous amount of times, and a simple search could have given you all the information you need to answer your query.

Today, there is essentially no difference. It is up to the brewery to decide what they want to refer to the beer as, and that is the only distinction. Formerly, stout was a type of porter.

If I were to decide on a difference, I would make porters thinner and have drier and roastier character, while stouts would be thicker and have more chocolate/coffee/dark fruit character.

 

Stouts are the ones that start with S.

 

Stouts are shorter, rounder people - like myself. Porters carry your bags. A stout porter is a short round man working at a hotel. A porter stout is someone working at a hotel that happens to be short and round. Round and 'round was a song by Ratt, but that is not important right now.

 

No difference in theory. But I feel like (with some obvious exceptions), a lot of the time a brewery's porter could also be their standard run-of-the-mill stout in their line-up, and they reserve the stout classification for bigger beers

 

Ah this topic again

Honestly, I'm not sure there is a difference these days

 

The difference has always been somewhat subjective, dating back to the origins of porter in London 350 years ago. Stouts traditionally had a higher FG than porters, but where the line was drawn was (and still is) up to the individual brewery.

 

Porter can be a stout.
Stout can be a porter.
Sometimes though, some porters are not stout.
And sometimes, some stouts are not porters.

I do hope that has cleared things up for you.

 

Hopefully this article will be helpful-
http://www.beerconnoisseur.com/porter-versus-stout

 

I go by whatever the label claims it to be.

 

Wibble.