{"id":17501,"date":"2015-01-23T07:30:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T12:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?p=17501"},"modified":"2015-01-23T13:25:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T18:25:03","slug":"hey-porter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/hey-porter\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, Porter"},"content":{"rendered":"

I relish few moments more than 5 p.m. Most days when the clock reaches that magic hour, I crack a beer and gulp my reward for the day\u2019s labor. Though I write about drinking for a living, I don\u2019t drink while writing. Like oil and water, work and pleasure don\u2019t mix – but that wasn\u2019t always the case in old London.<\/p>\n

During the 17th and 18th centuries, porters hoofed heavy freight off boats and ferried parcels and merchants\u2019 goods around town. Portering was backbreaking, calorie-draining labor, work that demanded steady refueling. According to historian Martyn Cornell, the men received an energizing boost from a dark, tart beer that they sipped at pubs equipped with outdoor benches and tables for storing their loads. The beer was so closely associated with the workers that by 1721 it began appearing in writing bearing their profession\u2019s name: porter.<\/p>\n

As for the dark quaff, it evolved from cloyingly sweet brown beer. Though brown beer was once London\u2019s dominant style, its subpar reputation cracked the door for competitors, and lighter-colored pale ales started catching on. To compete, brewers devised a decently hopped, less sweet brown beer that was mellowed in wooden barrels. Due to the lack of sanitation, bacteria and the wild yeast Brettanomyces likely loitered inside the wood; given time, the microflora gave the beer its signature tart, lightly lactic character.<\/p>\n

Once porter won over British drinkers, the brew was shipped to colonies and across the prevailing trade routes, landing in Ireland, Denmark, India, Russia, and Scandinavia. Over the ensuing decades, pale ales climbed in popularity, and porter begat the Irish dry stout – Guinness is Ireland\u2019s classic example. By the mid-20th century, porter was essentially extinct. The style seemed destined for the dustbin, and in many respects that\u2019s still the case.<\/p>\n

Few breweries produce tart, historically appropriate porter. Increasingly, plenty of modern interpretations do exist, though, and you\u2019ll typically find them to be lighter and less astringent than stouts. Today\u2019s British porters present sweet flavors of caramel or toffee and a bit of roasted complexity. American porters are more imaginative, employing smoked malts, heaps of hops, fruits, chocolate, coffee, and hot peppers. For example, California\u2019s Stone Brewing Co. adds chipotles to its Smoked Porter. Ohio\u2019s Willoughby Brewing recreates a candy treat with its Peanut Butter Cup Coffee Porter. And Florida\u2019s Funky Buddha makes Maple Bacon Coffee Porter, which tastes like breakfast in a bottle. No judgments if you drink it before 5 p.m.<\/p>\n

\"Five<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Pairing<\/h3>\n

As with stouts, porters can dominate delicate cheeses with their abundance of cocoa, coffee, and roasty bitterness. But these flavors are a perfect fit for a rich, nutty Gruy\u00e8re-style cheese, such as Roth\u2019s Grand Cru Surchoix<\/a> or Le Gruy\u00e8re AOC 1655<\/a>. For a different direction, try a decadent triple cream, such as Cowgirl Creamery\u2019s Mt. Tam<\/a> or France\u2019s Pierre Robert<\/a>. Washed-rind cheeses also possess the backbone to go toe-to-toe with porter, and I\u2019d be remiss if I overlooked Cahill\u2019s Irish Porter Cheddar<\/a>, which is deeply veined with its namesake ale.<\/p>\n

\"WINT14-BeerCheese_FiveTry_250x250\"<\/div>\n

SMUTTYNOSE<\/strong>
\nRobust Porter<\/em>
\nThe New Hampshire brewery\u2019s blacktop-smooth porter evokes roasted coffee and chocolate; there\u2019s a bitter jolt on the back end.<\/p>\n

FULLER\u2019S<\/strong>
\nLondon Porter<\/em>
\n\u201cRich, dark and complex\u201d is the slogan for this venerable British brew. You\u2019ll taste toffee, chocolate, and fresh bread.<\/p>\n

MAUI BREWING<\/strong>
\nCoCoNut Porter<\/em>
\nThe Hawaii brewery\u2019s silky and chocolaty porter is made with toasted coconut flesh, which supplies an unmistakably sweet, nutty, and altogether tropical nuance.<\/p>\n

MEANTIME<\/strong>
\nLondon Porter<\/em>
\nLondon\u2019s Meantime based this porter on a 1750 recipe. The deep-brown beer\u2019s aroma of lightly roasted malt and cocoa leads to flavors of coffee and toffee.<\/p>\n

GREAT LAKES<\/strong>
\nEdmund Fitzgerald Porter<\/em>
\nSince 1988, the Cleveland-based brewery has crafted some of Ohio\u2019s loveliest beers, including this well-hopped porter packed with flavors of coffee and bittersweet chocolate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dark, complex, and once beloved around the world, porter is a winter-friendly dark brew that is poised for a comeback<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[148],"coauthors":[309],"class_list":["post-17501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cheese-pairings","tag-beer"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHey, Porter - culture: the word on cheese<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Dark, complex, and once beloved around the world, porter is a winter-friendly dark brew that is poised for a comeback\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/hey-porter\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hey, Porter\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dark, complex, and once beloved around the world, porter is a winter-friendly dark brew that is poised for a comeback\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/hey-porter\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"culture: the word on cheese\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-01-23T12:30:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-01-23T18:25:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/WINT14-BeerCheese_Porter_750x368.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"368\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Joshua M. Bernstein\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Joshua M. Bernstein\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/hey-porter\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/hey-porter\/\",\"name\":\"Hey, Porter - culture: the word on cheese\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/hey-porter\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/hey-porter\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/WINT14-BeerCheese_Porter_750x368.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-01-23T12:30:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-01-23T18:25:03+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/#\/schema\/person\/81b9a2e76d581f340849c880f4085df9\"},\"description\":\"Dark, complex, and once beloved around the world, porter is a winter-friendly dark brew that is poised for a comeback\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/hey-porter\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/hey-porter\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/hey-porter\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/WINT14-BeerCheese_Porter_750x368.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/WINT14-BeerCheese_Porter_750x368.jpg\",\"width\":750,\"height\":368},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/hey-porter\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Cheese Pairings\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/category\/cheese-pairings\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Hey, Porter\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/\",\"name\":\"culture: the word on cheese\",\"description\":\"Culture, America's magazine for cheese lovers, delivers stories about cheeses, cheesemakers, travel to gorgeous cheese regions, and practical tips on buying, presenting, and cooking with cheese.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/#\/schema\/person\/81b9a2e76d581f340849c880f4085df9\",\"name\":\"cheesemaster\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/b30bd983f28ed6a17e023e5a5d0c56c4\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Anon-Cheese-Watercolor-500x500-96x96.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Anon-Cheese-Watercolor-500x500-96x96.jpg\",\"caption\":\"cheesemaster\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/author\/cheesemaster\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Hey, Porter - culture: the word on cheese","description":"Dark, complex, and once beloved around the world, porter is a winter-friendly dark brew that is poised for a comeback","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/hey-porter\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Hey, Porter","og_description":"Dark, complex, and once beloved around the world, porter is a winter-friendly dark brew that is poised for a comeback","og_url":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/hey-porter\/","og_site_name":"culture: the word on cheese","article_published_time":"2015-01-23T12:30:33+00:00","article_modified_time":"2015-01-23T18:25:03+00:00","og_image":[{"width":750,"height":368,"url":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/WINT14-BeerCheese_Porter_750x368.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Joshua M. Bernstein","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Joshua M. Bernstein","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/hey-porter\/","url":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/hey-porter\/","name":"Hey, Porter - culture: the word on cheese","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/hey-porter\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/hey-porter\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/WINT14-BeerCheese_Porter_750x368.jpg","datePublished":"2015-01-23T12:30:33+00:00","dateModified":"2015-01-23T18:25:03+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/#\/schema\/person\/81b9a2e76d581f340849c880f4085df9"},"description":"Dark, complex, and once beloved around the world, porter is a winter-friendly dark brew that is poised for a comeback","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/hey-porter\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/hey-porter\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/hey-porter\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/WINT14-BeerCheese_Porter_750x368.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/WINT14-BeerCheese_Porter_750x368.jpg","width":750,"height":368},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/hey-porter\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Cheese Pairings","item":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/category\/cheese-pairings\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Hey, Porter"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/#website","url":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/","name":"culture: the word on cheese","description":"Culture, America's magazine for cheese lovers, delivers stories about cheeses, cheesemakers, travel to gorgeous cheese regions, and practical tips on buying, presenting, and cooking with cheese.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/#\/schema\/person\/81b9a2e76d581f340849c880f4085df9","name":"cheesemaster","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/b30bd983f28ed6a17e023e5a5d0c56c4","url":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Anon-Cheese-Watercolor-500x500-96x96.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Anon-Cheese-Watercolor-500x500-96x96.jpg","caption":"cheesemaster"},"url":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/author\/cheesemaster\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17501"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}