What Is Stout Beer?
Stout is a dark, top-fermented beer with a number of variations, including dry stout, oatmeal stout, milk stout, and imperial stout. Historically, the term stout was used in reference to strongly alcoholic beers. In the 18th century, for example, the term stout porter was used to describe a porter, or dark beer, with alcohol content above 7 percent. In some cases stout was used simply as another name for dark beer.