Editing Stout (section)

==Milk stout==
[[File:CastleMilkStout2016.jpg|thumb|150px|Castle Milk Stout from [[South African Breweries]]]]
''Milk stout'' (also called ''sweet stout'' or ''cream stout'') is a stout containing [[lactose]], a sugar derived from milk. Because lactose cannot be fermented by [[Saccharomyces cerevisiae|beer yeast]], it adds sweetness and perceived body to the finished beer.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sweet Stout |url=https://byo.com/article/sweet-stout/ |access-date=2024-11-14 |website=Brew Your Own |language=en-US}}</ref> 

The milk stout has historically been claimed to be nutritious, advertised to nursing mothers<ref>
{{cite web|url=http://www.dorsetforyou.com/index.jsp?articleid=390700|title=The Stout Without Gout – December 2008 Document of the Month – Dorset For You|website=Dorsetforyou.com|access-date=13 March 2009}}</ref><ref>
{{cite news|url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/food-drink/guinness-to-brew-anniversary-stout-to-mark-250th-birthday/28475212.html|title=Guinness to brew anniversary stout to mark 250th birthday – Food & Drink, Life & Style|date=December 25, 2008|newspaper=[[Belfast Telegraph]]|access-date=13 March 2009}}</ref> as helping to increase their milk production.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://byo.com/hops/item/1155-milk-stout-it-does-a-body-good|title=Milk Stout: It Does a Body Good|last=BurnSilver|first=Glenn|website=Byo.com|access-date=11 May 2017|language=en}}</ref> An archetypical surviving example of milk stout is [[Mackeson Stout|Mackeson's]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XRyxWu8rRnQC&q=Mackeson+Stout&pg=PA257|title=The Dictionary of Beer and Brewing|isbn=978-1-57958-078-0|date=1 October 1998|last1=Rabin |first1=Dan |last2=Forget |first2=Carl |publisher=Taylor & Francis }}</ref> for which the original brewers advertised that "each pint contains the energising [[carbohydrate]]s of 10 ounces [1/2 pint, 284&nbsp;ml] of pure dairy milk."  The style was rare until being revived by a number of [[Craft brewery and microbrewery|craft breweries]] in the twenty-first century.

Well known examples include the Bristol Beer Factory Milk Stout, the [[Left Hand Brewing Company|Left Hand Milk Stout]] and the Lancaster Milk Stout.<ref name="bjcp-sweet-stout">{{cite web |url=https://www.bjcp.org/style/2021/16/16A/sweet-stout/ |website=BJCP |access-date=20 March 2024 |title=Beer Judge Certification Program }}</ref>

There were prosecutions in [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] in 1944 under the Food and Drugs Act 1938 regarding misleading labelling of milk stout.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://refreshingbeer.blogspot.com/2011/10/milk-stout-prosecutions-1944.html|date=22 October 2011|access-date=21 November 2016|title=Milk stout prosecutions, 1944|work=I might have a glass of beer}}</ref><!-- blog gives additional, specific information about the cases, which were not listed in the newspaper -->

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