Ever wonder how brewers get that rich brown chocolate flavor in some of their stouts and dark beers- well many of them actually use chocolate. The brewers use dark roasted malt which acquires a rich chocolate flavour and then they mix in small amounts of real chocolate or cocoa. Some breweries are even having success using such things of coffee in their brews. Belgium as you would expect the kings of beer and chocolate have had some pretty good brews mixing chocolate with their dark beers and there are dozens of microbreweries in the United States who have a choclate stout as their signature brew. The secret is to add dark chocolate to the brew while it is boiling and then add some rich chocolate essence to the brew after filtration.
