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Like stout, porter is a dark beer, but made with malted barley. The name "porter" was first used in 1721 to describe a dark brown beer popular with the street and river porters of London. This same beer later also became known as stout, though the word stout had been used as early as 1677. The history and development of stout and porter are intertwined, though now distinguished by whether the barley has been malted or not.
