Style family · 7 styles · node 04 of 11

Stout

From 4% dry Irish to 14% pastry monsters aged in whatever barrels were available. The imperial end of this family produces the most-hunted labels on Hop Grail — limited, adjunct-heavy, approved months ahead of release.

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Labels: 2,035
This week: 25
Median ABV: 10.3%

Styles in this family

Barrel-Aged Stout 915Pastry Stout 452Imperial Stout 219Stout (other/unspecified) 193Sweet / Milk Stout 148Oatmeal Stout 71Dry / Irish Stout 37

Barrel-Aged Stout915 labels: Stout aged in spirit barrels — bourbon most often, then rye, rum, brandy, and whatever a distillery had to spare. The barrel is on the label, and often the distillery, which is a gift to anyone reading labels for provenance. These are approved months before they release and are the whales of the corpus.
Pastry Stout452 labels: Dessert-adjunct stout: vanilla, chocolate, coconut, maple, cinnamon, marshmallow, often several at once. The label lists them because it has to, which makes these the most legible labels in the family and the most collected. Where a brewery gets five approved in a season, a drop is coming.
Imperial Stout219 labels: Stout past roughly 8%, Russian imperial included: dense, roasty, built to age. Hop Grail's most-hunted labels start here and get more so as barrels and adjuncts are added. Imperial stout labels are approved well ahead of release, so an approval date is an early signal, not a shelf date.
Stout (other/unspecified)193 labels: Labeled stout without a clearer substyle: American, export, foreign extra, or just stout. Read the ABV: under 6% and it is probably in the dry or sweet tradition; over 8% and it is an imperial that didn't say so. The label is telling you less than usual here, and we don't fill in the gap.
Sweet / Milk Stout148 labels: Sweet stout with lactose — milk stout on most labels — softer and fuller than a dry stout, often the base for coffee or chocolate variants. A dependable taproom label that also leads into pastry territory when the adjunct list gets long. Lactose has to be declared, so the fine print tells you plainly.
Oatmeal Stout71 labels: Stout brewed with oats for body and a smoother texture. A classic shape that gets new labels steadily without ever spiking. Labels tend to be plain about it — oatmeal stout, sometimes breakfast stout when coffee joins in — which makes this a reliable node to search.
Dry / Irish Stout37 labels: Dry stout in the Irish style, often nitrogenated: roast, low alcohol, a light body under a dark color. Labels are modest and cluster toward late winter. Nitro on the label is a packaging claim as much as a style one, and the widget cans are their own small corner of Hop Grail.