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Bread you can drink, dark enough to hide a shipwreck and twice as bold
means Sturdy and solidly built — whether describing a thick-bodied person, a brave and resolute spirit, or a strong dark beer.
from From Old French 'estout' meaning bold or proud, which traces back to a Germanic root (a cousin of the Dutch 'stout,' 'naughty,' and possibly related to Old English words for strength). It first meant 'valiant' and 'fierce'; the senses of 'thickset in body' and 'strong in flavour' grew later — the beer named 'stout' originally meant simply a strong, bold brew.
- origin
- Once meant strong, not dark — any potent beer
- roasted barley
- Black color comes from grain charred like coffee
- oyster pairing
- Classic match; some brews actually contain oysters
- nitrogen trick
- That creamy cascade is nitrogen, not carbon dioxide
- meal status
- Once prescribed to nursing mothers for iron
guinness — irish dry stout brewed in dublin since 1759, now the world's best-selling stout
samuel smith's taddy porter — english brown stout from tadcaster brewery, continuously brewed since 1758
murphy's irish stout — cork-based stout brewery founded 1856, second only to guinness in ireland