Port and guinness question?!
Whats the difference between guinness and port?
port as you know is a fortifed wine and guinness is stout but why is it that some people get confused with port and porter?
I mean porter is guinness but why do people call guinness porter.
Answers: Guys dont laugh at me i know i work in the bartrade so bare with me for this question.
Whats the difference between guinness and port?
port as you know is a fortifed wine and guinness is stout but why is it that some people get confused with port and porter?
I mean porter is guinness but why do people call guinness porter.
Guinness is a stout, or more specifically a dry Irish stout, either way it has very little to do with porter. Porter is porter although similar and related to stouts in the grand scheme of beer. Your patrons are wrong to call Guinness a porter.
If you want to "wow" them then here's the story of porter (more or less, going from memory here)...
A long time ago in a far off land (England) the working class citizens used to enjoy getting a little hammered. Needless to say however they weren't the most affluent bunch and beer wasn't always a commodity that fit in to the budget. Business minded pub owners got in to the practice of mixing their own concoction of beer which could include several styles of fresh and/or stale beer. At the time there was little regularity with these mixes which would warrant a "style" but they grew in popularity and were commonly referred to as "entires" or "3 threads" and eventually get mixed at the brewery.
Time passes and given that the working class citizens, AKA the porters, were the main consumers of these mixes the names entire and 3 threads eventually lost favor to "Porter" as the haphazard mixing of beers eventually played in to a more central theme or style. Despite being one of the more popular beers of the time more time passes and the beer style all but vanishes from the face of the Earth for any number of reasons.
The year 1988 roles around and an old British ship is found in the English Channel. On this ship are several intact bottles of porter. The beer tastes like **** but that's not enough to stop beer drinkers. A microbiologist by some miracle cultivates living yeast from these bottles and grows it up, then brews a porter from a recipe dating back to 1850; this beer is "The Original Flag Porter" which more or less revived the style.
I've always thought that was a pretty crazy story for a beer.
Not as confusing as your question......yes Guinness is a stout as is Porter,
Port is a fortified wine as you say.....
I have never heard anyone call Guinness a Porter.
There is a drink of Guinness and Port which has a name I cant remember.
It's in the way that they are brewed and the ingredients used. Are you sure Guinness is a Porter? I think it's a Stout.There is a difference.Just like with Ale,Pilsner,Lager,etc.
Porters are named for the people who drank them. Guinness was a beer gone wrong initially so they sold it to all of the porters real cheap. The best things are usually the accidents.
I think you will find that there is subtle difference between porter and stout, although they are both "dark beers". There is a big difference between Guinness and port as already been described. However both mixed together is somewhat spendid!!
sorry i don't drink so i don't know the answer
porter was the 18th century name in england for dark high og beers made from roasted barley. Being more concentrated in calories than ale they were thought more nutritious for heavy physical labour esp portering so known as "porter" an extra strength version was exported to Russia and scandinavia and known as Stout. P- an entirely English beer -was introduced into ireland by the gov to discourage whisky drinking. guiness was just a particular brand of "porter"
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