They could have branded channels, guaranteed exposure, and touted their stouts more directly.

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The menu will change regularly to showcase seasonal beers, with the current winter menu featuring heavier stouts and porters.

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For dessert, consider stouts, chocolate stouts, other beers with some malty thick sweetness, or possibly a fruit beer or spiced beer.

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Of course, the irony is that all the new wave Belgian breweries are making American-style imperial IPAs and barrel-aged imperial stouts.

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Arthur Guinness made stouts synonymous with Ireland in 1759 when he signed an optimistic 9, 000 year lease on a brewery in Dublin.

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Connoisseurs of chocolate stouts, blueberry wheats and hopmonsters are spoiled for choice.

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Jack McAuliffe, often heralded as the father of American craft beer, was inspired to start the New Albion Brewing Company in San Francisco after he fell in love with ales and stouts while working in Scotland.

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