The Best Chocolate Beers

Based out of England, Young's Brewery produces a Double Chocolate Stout that perfectly combines a roasted malt with cocoa in the style of a sweet stout using a proprietary blend of sugars instead of lactose. This results in a richer, sweeter beer with sharp chocolate and vanilla accents.​

A malty character from Old Tom’s base beer recipe, vanilla, and cocoa come together to produce Old Tom With Chocolate, a beer reminiscent of an extra chocolaty glass of chocolate milk. This brew is also a standout chocolate beer because it is a blend of chocolate and strong ale, instead of porter or stout like most. Old Tom's is definitely worth tracking down and spending some time with if you're in the mood for a different type of chocolatey beer.

Oatmeal stout and a handful of dark, bitter chocolate together create a brilliant mixture known as Sand Creek Brewery's 2010 award-winning Oscar's Chocolate Oatmeal Stout. With loads of oatmeal in this brew, expect a cereal-like quality and silky mouthfeel blended with bitter chocolate and the deep, roasted flavors of the stout.​

Sexual Chocolate is the big beer lover's chocolate beer. Fresh from Foothills Brewing Company, these imperial stouts are huge beers with heaps of flavor and aroma as well as an extra-high alcohol content of 9.8 percent by volume. Sexual Chocolate features a rich chocolate aroma with notes of espresso, blackstrap molasses, dark sweet toffee, and dark fruit.

The porter-style Chocolate Beer from Meantime Brewing Company leans more to the sweet than the bitter, so if you are a milk chocolate kind of chocolate lover, this may be the chocolate beer for you. Rich, dark, and super-smooth, Chocolate Beer offers a blend of four dark malts and real chocolate that combine to make for a drink that's like a mouthful of liquid chocolate.

If you're a fan of chocolate-covered cherries and stout beer, O'Fallon Brewery's Cherry Chocolate Beer might be your perfect choice for a semi-sweet beverage packed full of flavor. Made with four kinds of grain and two hops varieties, Cherry Chocolate Beer is more akin to a dark wheat beer than a stout, making it the perfect sipping beverage for winter months.

There are very few things more indulgent than Belgian chocolate or Belgian beer. However, Chocolate Indulgence is a brew that combined both. First introduced at the Ommegang Brewery's 10th-anniversary party in 2007, Chocolate Indulgence is perhaps now the most indulgent chocolate beer on the market.

This is another imperial stout chocolate beer meaning it's big on flavor and alcohol. This, combined with oak aging and even a bit of cayenne pepper, yields the Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti, a beer that needs to be on your must-taste list. With toned down hops and the addition of cocoa nibs for ​bitterness, vanilla notes for sweetness, and oak hints for aroma, the Chocolate Oak Aged Yeti Imperial Stout is the perfect drink for a cold winter evening spent by the fire.

Rogue Ales and Spirits is one of the most prestigious beer companies in America, and its Chocolate Stouts is one of the few American beers to win an award at the Mondial de la Biere Festival in Strasbourg, France. This beer, ebony in color with a rich, creamy head and flavors of oats, hops, and a rich chocolate truffle finish, makes for the perfect beer geek's chocolate beer.

With a sweet malt flavor and added vanilla, this beer definitely takes on a milk chocolate quality. Add that to the crisp lager character of Samuel Adams' bock beers and this is definitely a beer to try at least once. Cocoa nibs used in this brew comes from ​Madagascar, Ghana, and Ecuador, giving it notes of honey, chocolate, and vanilla.​