Style family · 3 styles · node 05 of 11

Porter

Brown malt's home. A smaller cousin of stout with more room for character — robust, Baltic, smoked. Porter filings spike in late summer as breweries prep the cold months.

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On record: 208
This week: 0
Median ABV: 6.6%

Styles in this family

Porter 140Imperial Porter 44Baltic Porter 24

Porter140 on record: American, English, brown and robust porters: brown malt, chocolate notes, less weight than a stout. Filings rise in late summer as breweries prepare the cold months. A porter on a house's register often outlives its trendier siblings — the same label, re-filed for years.
Imperial Porter44 on record: Porter at high strength, often barrel-aged or adjuncted, the porter's answer to the imperial stout. Rare enough that each filing is worth a look, and the label usually says imperial outright. Where the fine print names a barrel, treat it like a barrel-aged stout: filed early, released later.
Baltic Porter24 on record: A strong dark beer fermented as a lager, in the Baltic tradition: smooth, deep, usually 7 to 9%. Few filings and knowledgeable ones; Baltic on the label is a brewer telling you they know the difference. Look for it from houses that also file bocks and dark lagers.