History of Porters
I thought that it might be a good idea to write some posts about the history of beer rather than just a bunch of status updates and “how to” articles. So we are going to kick this mini-series off by going out of order. I wanted to do an overall history of beer but that is going to take longer than I thought and I wanted to get the history of Porter out before I share a few bottles of my Baltic Porter with some of you. So here is the History of Porter. The Porter is one of the more ambiguous and unclear beer styles seconded (perhaps tied with) the Stout. Sure on it’s own the stout if fairly unique but when you’re asked to differentiate between a porter and a stout you’d be hard pressed to come up with a good list of differences (as per style). This posts focus will be the history of the porter but due to their similarities it will be, at least in part, a very brief history of the Stout until the styles split. A quick bit of background, early in the 1700’s a stout was any beer that was high in...
