Being the relatively new country it is, much of what we enjoy here in the United States was either brought over from our distant relatives or at the very least inspired by the old world. This is certainly the case when it comes to beer.

While the American

craft beer boom ushered in a bevy of seemingly novel styles, when you really break it down,

most are just spin-offs of styles that have been around for a long time. You're listening to the

Brewlosophy podcast. I'm your host Marshall Shot, and this week I'm joined by contributor Steve

Thanos to chat about the arguably tame, at least by today's standards, American Porter, which began as a play on the porter that

was popular in the UK well over a century ago.

Yeah, the American Porter, actually for me, was sort of the gateway beer that I got into

craft beer, strangely enough.

It was quickly like my favorite beer style yeah um i i

can still enjoy them today i wouldn't say they're my favorite anymore but it's definitely a style

that i appreciate and we'll go back to um just went to order a porter actually a few weeks ago

when i was at a neighborhood brewery and it

was fantastic. So I'm looking forward to talking about this. Yeah, I have to imagine that your

introduction to Porter was sometime around around the same time that I was introduced to it. I'll

never forget my first experience with American Porter. I didn't even know that's what it was at

the time, but I was home for the Thanksgiving holiday and had turned 21 just a few months before,

and this older friend of mine knew that I was getting into craft beer, so he brought over this

six pack of Deschutes Brewing Black Butte Porter. Now, this was up in the Seattle area where

Deschutes brewing is widely available. Still, to this day it is. It blew me away.

So, you know, it's just massively different than the pale loggers and IPAs that I had been

obsessing with for the prior year. It just really opened my eyes to this delicious style and, in fact,

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