»Stout, stout, stout, stout

Stout is one of my favourite beers, although one particular beer represents the genre so strongly that it has become synonymous with "stout" (for Irish stout beer, I much prefer Beamish!). Stout tends to be slightly sweet, with its the warm taste of toasted malts or barley accompanying the syrupy alcohol. I sat down recently and drank a few more pints of the Sly Fox O'Reilly's Stout, one of the most outstanding stouts I have enjoyed. I then leaned into a pint of Young's Oatmeal Stout, and thence a bottle of Sam. Smith's Oatmeal Stout; these two have thick, dark heads with creamy tastes. I later had a bottle of Samuel Smith's Imperial Stout, which has a thin but heavy head and a dense array of flavours."Imperial" stout has more alcohol than most stouts, for fortifying it against travel; it sometimes has the label "export".