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Luchador en Fuego, the excellent barrel-aged Mexican chocolate stout from Clown Shoes, brings the heat.

Forest Bänger is another stellar offering from a brewery that excels in the art of dark beers.

America’s finest Belgian brewery, Allagash, master the dark arts of imperial stouts with the bold Nocturna.

Some of the best stouts out there are now aged in wine barrels, including To Øl’s tasty By Udder Means.

Santa’s not looking for cookies, so sweeten up his holiday with Hardywood’s killer Christmas Morning stout.

Weyerbacher’s powerful Belgian-styled imperial stout Tiny is anything but small in stature.

Burial Beer’s Skillet Donut Stout is low on donut flavor but high on coffee buzz.

Barrier Brewing’s Russian Imperial Stout Morticia won’t clear cobwebs — it’ll create ’em.

When does a stout nearly become a wine? When New Zealand’s 8 Wired takes three years to age the incredible iStout Unchained!

Brewed in collaboration with Adroit Theory, 200 is limited-run Extremely Extreme Russian Imperial Stout that clocks in at a mind-altering 14% ABV!

Boldness is key to the appeal of 35K, which pours with minimal carbonation, virtually no head and a rich all-black black-as-your-soul color.

Hands down, Brasserie Dieu du Ciel’s Péché Mortel (“Mortal Sin”) is one of the best coffee stouts you will ever taste.

Peanut butter flavored stouts and porters are becoming ubiquitous, but Lost Coast’s Peanut Butter Chocolate Milk Stout are there great tastes that that taste pretty fricken good together.

Future You Hates You – a collaboration between Adroit Theory and Cushwa – is a 13.5% ABV Imperial Stout designed for slow-sipping and maximum impact

If Metallica’s “The Thing That Should Not Be” described a beer, it would be Funky Prowler.

You needn’t have been raised on Tom Carvel’s ice cream cakes to appreciate Fudgie the Beer, but it doesn’t hurt.

For an imperial stout, it goes down easy. Easy like Christmas Morning.

If No Corporate Beer limited reviews to can art alone, Piece By Piece would get 100 fucking skulls.

How do you like dem Estonian apples in your stout? NCB Reviews travels to Northern Europe to find out.

Give us disco and then give us death!

Extreme metal veteran Chris Dodge (Spazz, Trappist) reviews Founders‘ Kentucky Breakfast Stout.

Have beer innovators Flying Dog found another hit with the Sweet & Smoky Stout?

Danish brewery Mikkeller unleashes, Sultan’s Curse Imperial Stout, a new heavyweight band collaboration with Mastodon

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