Although winter might seem like the best time for dark beers, they can actually be enjoyed any time. All you need is a cool night or a campfire, and those rich, toasty, and roast-y flavors really pop.

Whether you prefer porters, stouts, dark ales, of black IPAs, we rounded up the very best dark beers to sip during fall and winter. Although winter might seem like the best time for dark beers, they ...

In the simplest terms, a dark lager is exactly what the name suggests. First brewed in the Czech Republic and Germany, it’s a broad category of lagers known for its darker, maltier, bready, and ...

Together, we tasted, re-tasted and debated our way through 17 holiday and winter beers. It’s just three palates, one table at ...

Dark beers get unfairly stereotyped by the loudest among them, like today’s trendy, Instagram-friendly pastry stouts. These are brawny, occasionally terrifying beers—like a 14 percent bourbon-barrel ...

Salt Lake Brewing - Black Sunshine: Cascadian Dark Ales are characterized with caramel malt and dark-roasted malt flavor. The hops usually feature fruity, citrus, piney, floral and herbal characters.

Dark beer's got a reputation for being heady, in both the foamy and the alcoholic way. The foamy part of its reputation is easy to see, since a fresh pour of some dark beers feature a pillowy and ...

You can enjoy drinking stouts, porters, strong ales, Scotch ales, and weizenbocks any time of year. Yes, even in the summer months. Nobody should tell you when to drink your favorite beer. And you ...

From smoked doppelbock, coffee lager, and black lager, this lineup of Gold medalist from BevTest’s World Beer Championships proves “plain old lager” now covers some of beer’s boldest ideas. Lager has ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jeanette Hurt covers the culture of spirits, wine and beer. The chill of winter calls for a beer with extra flavor and strength ...

Out of Dry January we go straight into one of the slowest months in the craft beer world. In other words, many breweries are basically just trying to scrape through the winter. Some aid comes, though, ...

There’s no beer style that has a more symbiotic relationship with the whiskey world than dark, roasty stout. They share historical roots, as both stout and malt whiskey in particular have birthplaces ...