Beer Myth: Stouts (Like Guinness) are made from what is left in the bottom of the barrel.

Beer Myth-Busted: The Stout style of ale is an off-shoot of porter. There are Irish dry-stouts, sweet stouts and imperial stouts, to name a few. Stouts are made from a complex recipe of roasted barley and other grains. It’s the roasted grains that give the stout its roasty, chocolatey and coffee-like flavors. The roasted grains also give the beer its opaque black color, much the same as the colors found on burnt toast. This is the result of a chemical process called the Malliard Reaction.

Stouts are conceived, formulated and brewed to be stouts. I make stouts and porters and I don’t even own a barrel! They are not by-products of another beer in the vat.

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