Stouts.
They’re Not Just for St. Patrick’s Day Any More

Stouts can be defined as dark beers made using roasted malts or roast barley typically having a higher percentage of hops than that of a porter. The earliest recorded use of the word "stout" to describe a beer came in 1677, but did not become distinguished as its own style until 1820. Before then, stout and porter were the same style of beer. It was used as a term to describe any "strong" beer with a higher alcohol percentage than a porter and for this reason was referred to as a "stout porter." During the end of the nineteenth century, stout porter beer gained the reputation of being a healthy strengthening drink, so that it was used by athletes and nursing mothers, while doctors often recommended it to help recovery. The terms stout and porter are often intertwined, and are simply labeled as on or the other based on personal preference of the individual brewer. Today stouts have a number of variations.

Dry or Irish Stout

Irish stout or dry stout is very dark and rich in color. It has a toast or coffee-like taste. The most famous example, Guinness, is from Ireland. Its alcoholic content and dry flavor are both characterized as light, although it varies from country to country.

Products offered by Origlio Beverage:

  • Black Hawk Stout
  • Coopers Extra Stout
  • Dogfish Head Chicory Stout
  • Guinness
  • Mackeson Stout
  • Murphy’s Stout
  • Sly Fox O’Reilly Stout
  • Sierra Nevada Stout

Chocolate Stout

Chocolate stout has a noticeable dark chocolate flavor because of the use of darker, more aromatic malt; particularly chocolate malt — a malt that has been roasted or kilned until it acquires a chocolate color.

Products offered by Origlio Beverage:

  • Arcadia Cocoloco
  • Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence
  • Young’s Double Chocolate Stout

Imperial Stout

Imperial stouts bear an alcohol content of more than 7.5 percent by volume with an intense roasted, perhaps burnt, flavor and strong fruity esters, such as burnt currants and raisins. It is full-bodied and warming. Had it not beer for the Russians, imperial stout, originally known as Imperial Russian Stout, may never have been produced.

Products offered by Origlio Beverage:

  • Arcadia Imperial Stout
  • Dogfish Head Worldwide Stout
  • Great Divide Oak Yeti Stout (Barrel Aged)
  • Heavy Seas Peg Leg
  • Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout
  • Sam Smith Imperial Stout
  • Saranac Imperial Stout
  • Stone Imperial Stout
  • Weyerbacher Old Heathen
  • Weyerbacher Heresy Stout (Oak Aged)

Milk Stout

Milk stout, also called sweet stout or cream stout, contains lactose, a sugar derived from milk. Because lactose is unfermentable, it adds sweetness, body, and calories to the finished beer.

Products offered by Origlio Beverage:

  • Mackeson Milk Stout
  • Sam Adams Cream Stout

Oatmeal Stout

Oatmeal stout is brewed with a proportion of oats, normally a maximum of 5%, added during the brewing process. This practice was begun during the "nutritious stout" era and continues today. The oats contribute a silky smoothness to the stout, and because of their oily nature, must be added to the brew in small proportions.

Products offered by Origlio Beverage:

  • Legacy Nor’Easter
  • Sam Smith Oatmeal Stout
  • Wild Goose Oatmeal
  • Young’s Oatmeal Stout