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We eat and drink with our eyes,(I dont mean literally <!-- s:roll: --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_rolleyes.gif" alt="" title="Rolling Eyes" /><!-- s:roll: -->) and as such,pale colors look lite and refreshing when we are hot,dark colors look warm when we are cold. How workers drank in the past and what they drank does not follow in todays drinking. I find that "porter" is confused with "dry stout". Because we have a big dry stout consumption in this country and the word porter is used often to refer to it,the more traditional type of porter being produced now is confused with dry stout. To me they are as chalk and cheese to each other.

&amp;quot;irish_goat&amp;quot;:twxonvm4 wrote: Dark beers tend to, but obviously not always, have flavours like chocolate, coffee and rich fruits which people would associate with colder weather and wintertime. [/quote:twxonvm4]

Yet coffee is drank by people in the Med during hot weather!!! <!-- s:D --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="" title="Very Happy" /><!-- s:D -->

And the most popular beers in Africa and the Caribbean are strong stouts.