Stout is a dark beer made using roasted malt or roasted barley, hops, water and yeast. Stouts and porters are historically intertwined, being that stout was originally used to describe the strongest of porters. Research in the 1920s suggested that people felt better after a pint of a stout porter, and post-op patients, blood donors, pregnant women and nursing mothers in Europe were advised to drink a pint of a stout beer to nourish themselves. While this suggestion isn't a common one with today's doctors, we think that drinking a pint of our Outlaw Stout after a hard day of skiing has, in fact, made many bruised and weary skiers feel better.