The Complete Beer Course: Boot Camp for Beer Geeks: From Novice to Expert in Twelve Tasting Classes by Joshua M. Bernstein

Author:Joshua M. Bernstein
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Beer, Cooking, Beverages, ebook
ISBN: 9781402797675
Publisher: Sterling Epicure
Published: 2013-09-03T07:00:00+00:00

CLASS 7

TURN ON

THE

DARK

STOUTS, PORTERS, AND ADDITIONAL INKY DELIGHTS

WHEN I STILL WAS USING my drinking training wheels, swilling cheap and frosty lagers until sunrise destroyed the night, I rarely stepped outside my intoxicating comfort zone. Cost and quantity were my double-headed masters, keeping my beer choices strictly bottom shelf. But whenever extra quarters jingled in my jeans, I’d escape my Queens apartment—a hellhole where cockroaches doubled as carpeting—take a jaunt across the street to the local Irish pub, and order a pint of Guinness that was poured with glacial slowness by a bartender who had eyebrows that looked like friendly white caterpillars.

“Cheers, lad,” the bartender would toast, one of the rare times I didn’t mind being called a little boy. I took my time sipping the ebony-hued beer, savoring the creamy crown and roasty complexity. My first forays into the world of stout were nothing but memorable.

If it were not for the mass-produced, delicious ubiquity of Guinness, millions of beer drinkers most likely would not take their first baby steps away from light, crisp lagers and dabble in the dark side of beer. But though Guinness is grand, the Irish ale is hardly the final proper noun on stouts and their precursors, the porter. A couple of hundred years ago, this lightly sour blended ale was the preferred beverage of Britain’s working class, eventually spawning a collection of equally delectable offspring such as the luscious milk stout, the briny oyster stout, the smooth oatmeal stout, the turbo-boosted Russian imperial stout, and the Baltic porter later reconceived by Scandinavians and Russians as a native quaff. When tasting these brews, I beg you to suspend any preconceived notions of what they might taste like on the basis of their appearance. Though these beers may look like used motor oil, many drink feather light.

It’s time to try some black magic.

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