A Dark Mild, Schwarzbier, Black IPA, Milk Stout, Baltic Porter, and Barrel-aged Imperial Stout walk in for a performance review. The reviewers leave slurring their words. Welcome to Grit & Grain Episode 71! We pivoted this week, cracking open a prime example from each dark beer style. Between declarations of coffee, toffee, licorice, chocolate, and dark fruit notes, we discuss dark beer parameters such as Baltic states history, grains, malt kilning, beer color measurements, Maillard reactions, color changes during the brewing process, and other alcohol versus color misinformation.

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