Beer is an alcoholic beverage produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches from cereal grain—most commonly malted barley, although wheat, maize, rice, and oats are also used. The grain is mash
An Oktoberfest waitress wearing a dirndl and carrying beer mugs.
Ancient Egyptian painting, 18th dynasty, reign of Akhenaten, c. 1300 BC, showing Syrian mercenary drinking beer through a straw. Egyptian Museum of Berlin
François Jaques: Peasants enjoying beer at pub in Fribourg (Switzerland, 1923)
Malted barley before roasting
Stout is a type of dark beer that is generally warm fermented, such as dry stout, oatmeal stout, milk stout and imperial stout.
Imperial Brown Stout, a beer from The Kernel Brewery, London
Castle Milk Stout from South African Breweries
An oatmeal stout from Mendocino Brewing Company, a craft brewery founded in 1983