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 ...

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.

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 ...

This list is part of a Paste series of bottom shelf liquor and craft beer style tastings. Click here to view all entries in the series. We could hardly blame you if you hadn’t yet noticed, given the ...

These are strange days for seasonal beer drinking. As I type away at this late December date, topped in a T-shirt and bottomed in cut-off jeans, Brooklyn, New York temperatures are boiling toward 70 ...

Whether you prefer porters, stouts, dark ales, of black IPAs, we rounded up the very best dark beers to sip during fall and winter. Men’s Journal aims to feature only the best products and services.

The Pivovar Samson brewery gave up the fight over the Budweiser name A bit more chocolate than caramel in malt profile Tasty%2C smooth Praga Dark Lager is 4.5%25 ABV Beer Man is a weekly profile of ...

A mystery — a dark, wonderful mystery — has been unfolding on Chicago’s beer store and supermarket shelves in recent months: Where did all of these dark lagers come from? A year ago, the odds of ...

Part of why we enjoy the changing of the seasons is that we can finally drink darker beers. And while we’re very close to going all-in on stouts, porters, and scotch ales, we can still get behind ...

Cut from the same cloth as people who claim they don't like red wine, there are those who go through their drinking lives with this on the tip of their tongues: "Oh, I don't really drink dark beer." ...

Is black the new pale yellow? Things are looking that way when it comes to beer. While the typical light American lager has been suffering through years of watered-down sales, breweries big and small ...

While summer months have us thirsty for bright, crisp beers, the plunging temperatures of winter bring all things rich, ...