Some beers scream out “for a scoop of vanilla ice cream,” said Greg Kitsock in The Washington Post. It’s no secret that some porters and stouts have a cocoa-like taste, thanks to highly roasted malt content. But some brewers go a step further, adding chocolate to a dark beer. Here are some to try.
Young’s Double Chocolate Stout
This “quite quaffable” brew from Wells & Young’s Brewing in Bedford, England, has “the ebony color, creamy head, and coffee overtones of a Guinness,” enhanced by a Hershey’s Syrup–like semisweet chocolate flavor.
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Rogue Chocolate Stout
This beer by Rogue Ales in Newport, Ore., infuses the brewery’s fairly strong, hoppy Shakespeare Stout with Dutch bittersweet chocolate. Originally brewed for export to Japan, it had a label that portrayed a teddy bear with a pink heart on its stomach. In 2000, the beer was renamed and the bottle redesigned. “Drier than Young’s,” though the chocolate and the hops “clash in the finish.”
Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence
This Belgian stout is flavored with powdered bittersweet chocolate. Drier and subtler than the Young’s or Rogue stouts, it also has the “fruity overtones” of a yeasty ale.
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