"The style of stout itself has its own mythology and lore dating all the way back to its birth in the 18th Century United Kingdom. Nursing mothers are said to be fortified with stout in Irish hospitals to help them produce milk while in Asia bathing a newborn in stout is thought to have a beneficial effect on the complexion."
Use that one the next time you go beer fowl.
A few characteristics, it's black (meat and taters kind of beer), 190cal, 4.9% abv, grains include two row pale, choc malt, malted wheat and UNMALTED barley, one of the few that pull that trick. Damn, I'm thirsty.
