Brewers often tell me that chocolate as a brewing ingredient adds complexity, well-roundedness, and smoothness to a beer’s flavor. It’s not easy to brew with chocolate—its oils can cause head retention issues, and it often require long and labor-intensive boils—but these beers make it all worth it. Here are seventeen beers compiled in honor of National Chocolate Day (October 28).
Sexual Chocolate
Foothills Brewing (Winston-Salem, North Carolina)
Perhaps the most cult-followed of all of the country’s chocolate beers is Sexual Chocolate, and not just because it’s so cleverly named. Foothills Brewing releases this Russian imperial stout each February, and that day you can expect a line out the brewery door.