July tends to be the wettest month in Tianjin, when you can expect heavy spells of rain, in between the sunny weather and hot days. The average precipitation levels in July are around 170 mm / 6.7 inches, compared to 60 mm / 2.4 inches in June and 155 mm / 6.1 inches in August.
The Dark Secrets of Stout. To brew a great stout, you need to know your dark grains. From roasted barley and roasted malt to chocolate and Carafa malts, how to get the right flavor in your roasty brew. Plus: Guinness and Murphy's stouts cloned. Offer a beer drinker a stout and you will find that most have some idea of what to expect. Many will brace in preparation for a sensory battle with a strong, bitter, black ale. Others will become warm just thinking of the full, roasted, chocolate and molasses flavors in their imaginary pint.
Guinness Draught, an Irish dry stout. Stout is a dark beer made using roasted malt or roasted barley, hops, water and yeast. Stouts were traditionally the generic term for the strongest or stoutest porters, typically 7% or 8%, produced by a brewery. There are a number of variations including Baltic porter, milk stout, and imperial stout; the most common variation is dry stout, exemplified by Guinness Draught, the world's best selling stout.