Chocolate stout

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Chocolate stout is a style of sweet stout that uses darker, more aromatic malt; particularly chocolate malt. Although some chocolate stouts, particularly American microbrewery or "craft brewery" versions, are brewed with real chocolate added during the fermentation stage, the name originally referred to the type of malt used, which imparted a slight bitterness and "roast" reminiscent of dark chocolate. Along with the barley malts, some chocolate and sweet stouts are brewed with roasted oats added to the malt.

Like most sweet stouts, chocolate stouts are lightly hopped. Usually brewers of sweet stout will use aromatic noble hops in place of the more typical bittering hops. Some of the more common varieties of noble hops are Fuggles, East Kent Golding, or Cascade, and they are used because they are less bitter.

Some breweries currently offering chocolate stouts are: Young's Brewery, one of the oldest continuously operating breweries in England; Rogue Ales, a microbrewery based in Newport, Oregon; Dogfish Head Brewing, a microbrewery based in Delaware; and Bison Brewery, a microbrewery in Berkeley, California.

The other main type of stout is the bitter stout, which includes Irish stout and coffee stout, among others.