What they all have in common is their malt. “Dark beer is driven by the dark malts the brewer selects, along with a few other minor variables,” says Ryan Murphy, lead brewer at Schilling Beer Co.

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Kentucky’s New Riff likewise tinkered with the concept via their Winter Whiskey, which used small portions of dark-roasted malt in a mash bill that still technically qualified as bourbon.

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The entry for winter ale notes that while winter warmer beers were popular in Europe for hundreds of years, often heated and spiced, they slowly disappeared in England in the 20th century and were ...

SPIRITWOOD, N.D. -- The Cargill Malt plant "went dark" at the end of October, completing a shutdown process announced in April. The company cited a change in the type of malt preferred by brewers ...

There are about 35 lagers in the mix, ranging from the classic pilsners to some wild and wacky Baltic porters, Czech dark lagers and bocks. ... chocolate and Bohemian dark malts in the beer. ...

All malt gets dried and heated to halt germination and prepare it for the brewing process, but the malts used in the best dark beers are cooked longer. They’re used in varying proportions with ...