Crosby's Kitchen & CocktailCole Porter

The line between a brewer’s porter and stout is often fuzzy. Porter is always the lighter of the two, and relies less on the darkest, highest-kilned barley known as “roast barley”. Instead it gets most of its dark malt character from malts known as chocolate and black. Robust porters tend toward the hoppy. Cole Porter uses only a touch of roast for depth and complexity while caramel and chocolate notes slug it out with a higher-than-usual hop character at the forefront of the flavor profile. So-called English porters are softer than this one, behaving more like a dark version of a brown ale.