Editing Stout (section)

==Oyster stout==
[[File:Marston's.Oyster.Stout.2012 (cropped).JPG|right |thumb|155px|[[Marston's Brewery|Marston's]] Oyster Stout]]
[[Oyster]]s have had a long association with stout. When stouts were emerging in the 18th century, oysters were a commonplace food often served in [[public house]]s and taverns. By the 20th century, oyster beds were in decline, and stout had given way to [[pale ale]]. Ernest Barnes<ref>{{cite web|url=https://barnesoysters.co.nz/about-us/ernest-barnes |title=Ernest Barnes|website=Barnes Wild Bluff Oysters|access-date=15 April 2018}}</ref> came up with the idea of combining oysters with stout using an oyster concentrate made by Thyrodone Development Ltd. in [[Bluff, New Zealand]], where he was factory manager.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19390511.2.145?end_date=1949-12-31&items_per_page=10&phrase=0&query=%22oyster+stout%22&sort_by=byDA&start_date=1839-01-01&title=AHCOG%2CBH%2CCL%2CCROMARG%2CDUNST%2CESD%2CLCM%2CLCP%2CLWM%2CME%2CMIC%2CMTBM%2CNOT%2COAM%2CODT%2COW%2COSWCC%2CSOCR%2CST%2CTT%2CWSTAR |title=Oyster Stout, ''Otago Daily Times'', Issue 23805, 11 May 1939|via=Papers Past|access-date=15 April 2018}}</ref> It was first sold by the Dunedin Brewery Company in New Zealand in 1938, with the Hammerton Brewery in London, UK, beginning production using the same formula the following year.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19390512.2.32?end_date=1949-12-31&items_per_page=10&phrase=0&query=%22oyster+stout%22&sort_by=byDA&start_date=1839-01-01&title=AHCOG%2CBH%2CCL%2CCROMARG%2CDUNST%2CESD%2CLCM%2CLCP%2CLWM%2CME%2CMIC%2CMTBM%2CNOT%2COAM%2CODT%2COW%2COSWCC%2CSOCR%2CST%2CTT%2CWSTAR|title=Oyster Stout, ''Otago Daily Times'', Issue 23806, 12 May 1939|via=Papers Past|access-date=15 April 2018}}</ref> Hammerton Brewery was re-established in 2014 and is once again brewing an oyster stout.<ref>{{Cite web |title=THE BREWERY |url=https://hammertonbrewery.shop/pages/hammerton-brewery |access-date=2024-11-14 |website=Hammerton Brewery |language=en}}</ref>

Modern ''oyster stouts'' may be made with a handful of oysters in the barrel, hence the warning by one establishment, the [[Porterhouse Brewery]] in Dublin, that their award-winning Oyster Stout was not suitable for vegetarians.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.porterhousebrewco.com/ |title=Porterhouse |website=Porterhousebrewco.com |access-date=15 August 2012}}</ref> Others, such as [[Marston's]] Oyster Stout, use the name with the implication that the beer would be suitable for drinking with oysters.{{cn|date=October 2024}}