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I was always into craft beer, but when the ‘white stouts’ and ‘imperial session IPAs’ came out I knew the industry jumped the shark. Now you have to look hard to find a plain brown ale or stout, all of them have shit like cinnamon French toast added to them.
I can't understand why stouts aren't more common. You can find 1000 IPAs or beer with random fruit in it but stouts are still really under-appreciated
Just a wild guess here but do stouts cost more in time/effort/resources?
Stouts cost more in grain costs and are typically higher in abv unless it's a double IPA etc. Yeasts also take longer to grow I assume. Home brewing takes two bags of yeast unless you do a starter and make your own.
Stouts take like 3 months and IPAs can be done in a few weeks. I can't remember the ingredient costs.
Not any more effort at all. Stouts have less hops so is cheaper than an IPA to make. The alcohol percentage dictates how much grain is used, so the more alcohol the more it costs to make. Yeast is cheap.
IIRC it's because stouts are far easier to screw up. IPAs are common because the insane level of hops covers up any 'off' flavors.
Maybe. I only made stout once and it turned out actually amazing. Deception Cream Stout.
Is it organic non-GMO gluten-free barrel-aged French toast?
I know this is a weird question, but I make goats milk soap and I want to incorporate a dark beer in my next experimental batch. Do you have a good, baseline dark beer that isn't over the top expensive that you suggest?
That sounds like a fun hobby. I would go with Guinness, unless one of your local breweries has an Irish stout on tap you can get a growler of. Black Butte Porter from Deschutes is another one easy to find in the western US. I think Sierra Nevada makes a stout still, so they would be another option.
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