"Lager Stout" ???

[Drewch]

I stumbled across a funny beer label on the internet for a "Pure Lager Stout".

http://www.vblcs.com/images/labels/vic/6.18/3.png
I've done some googling, but so far I haven't found any details about what a lager stout would be. There's a mention of the term without further description in a table in an article on Shut Up About Barklay Perkins: Branded Lager in 1953

Anybody got a source for a better description of this style?

 

[Miraculix]

Make a stout with lager yeast?

Pretty much a Schwarzbier though...

 

[Drewch]

That's what I assumed ... A stout analog to Baltic Porter. But it'd be nice to have a historical reference to verify.

 

[Yooper]

Tropical stouts tend to be stouts fermented with lager yeast.

 

[MaxStout]

Baltic Porters are close to that, fermented with lager yeast.