🍺 Top 100 Beers

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Dark, roasty, and complex — from dry Irish stouts to imperial behemoths.

Top 100 Beers / Stout & Porter

#11guinness-draught

Guinness Draught

Guinness — Dublin, Ireland
Dry Irish Stout4.2% ABV🇮🇪 Ireland

The world's most iconic stout. Nitrogen-carbonated, roasted barley, coffee, and cream. 1.8 billion pints poured annually across 150 countries. The two-part pour ritual takes exactly 119.5 seconds.

#12founders-kbs

Founders KBS (Kentucky Breakfast Stout)

Founders Brewing — Grand Rapids, Michigan
Bourbon Barrel Imperial Stout11.8% ABV🇺🇸 USA

Coffee, chocolate, oak, and bourbon. Aged in bourbon barrels for a year. One of America's most sought-after barrel-aged stouts — lines form at bottle shops on release day every spring.

#13goose-island-bcbs

Bourbon County Brand Stout

Goose Island — Chicago, Illinois
Imperial Stout14.7% ABV🇺🇸 USA

Pioneered the bourbon barrel-aged stout category. Chocolate, vanilla, whiskey oak. Released annually on Black Friday — "Stout Day" — with collectors camping outside bottle shops nationwide.

#14alesmith-speedway

AleSmith Speedway Stout

AleSmith Brewing — San Diego, California
Imperial Coffee Stout12% ABV🇺🇸 USA

Coffee from Taylor Maid Farms and chocolate forward. Immensely full-bodied with a roasted finish that lingers for minutes. Considered one of the finest American imperial stouts.

#15three-floyds-dark-lord

Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout

3 Floyds Brewing — Munster, Indiana
Russian Imperial Stout15% ABV🇺🇸 USA

Only available on "Dark Lord Day" — an annual beer festival dedicated entirely to this one release. Coffee, molasses, toffee. Barrel-aged variants trade at extraordinary prices.

#16bells-expedition

Bell's Expedition Stout

Bell's Brewery — Kalamazoo, Michigan
Russian Imperial Stout10.5% ABV🇺🇸 USA

Brewed since 1994 — one of America's original imperial stouts. Coffee, roasted malt, and dried fruit character that improves dramatically with years of cellaring.

#17mikkeller-beer-geek

Beer Geek Breakfast

Mikkeller — Copenhagen, Denmark
Oatmeal Stout7.5% ABV🇩🇰 Denmark

Brewed with hand-picked single-origin coffee. Oatmeal gives a silky body, espresso dominates the palate, dark chocolate rounds the finish. Mikkeller's most celebrated recipe.

#18fullers-london-porter

Fuller's London Porter

Fuller's Brewery — Chiswick, London
Porter5.4% ABV🇬🇧 UK

Classic English porter with dark fruit, chocolate, and roasted malt. Champion Beer of Britain winner. A beautiful everyday dark beer that connects to porter's 18th-century London origins.

#19left-hand-milk-stout

Left Hand Milk Stout Nitro

Left Hand Brewing — Longmont, Colorado
Milk Stout6% ABV🇺🇸 USA

Nitrogen-widget bottle for an at-home draught pour. Silky smooth, coffee, chocolate, and milk sugar sweetness — tastes like a liquid dessert. Pioneered the nitro bottle format in craft beer.

#20youngs-choc-stout

Young's Double Chocolate Stout

Wells & Young's — Bedford, England
Sweet Stout5.2% ABV🇬🇧 UK

Real chocolate and chocolate essence — not artificial flavouring. Sweet, rich, and dessert-like. A pioneering use of actual chocolate in brewing. Outstanding poured over vanilla ice cream.

#70firestone-parabola

Firestone Walker Parabola

Firestone Walker — Paso Robles, California
Russian Imperial Stout14.1% ABV🇺🇸 USA

100% bourbon barrel-aged imperial stout. Vanilla, caramel, and dark chocolate with whiskey oak backbone. Annual limited release that develops extraordinary complexity with age. One of California's finest barrel-aged offerings.

#71nogne-o-imperial

Nøgne Ø Imperial Stout

Nøgne Ø — Grimstad, Norway
Imperial Stout9% ABV🇳🇴 Norway

Norway's most celebrated stout. Roasted malt, dark chocolate, and liquorice character. Pioneer of Scandinavian craft brewing — proved that world-class stouts could be made far beyond the British Isles and America.

#77oskar-blues-ten-fidy

Oskar Blues Ten FIDY

Oskar Blues — Longmont, Colorado
Imperial Stout10.5% ABV🇺🇸 USA

One of the first imperial stouts in a can — revolutionary when released in 2008. Massive chocolate and coffee character with molasses sweetness. Proved definitively that the can format could showcase world-class craft beer.

#78deschutes-abyss

Deschutes The Abyss

Deschutes Brewery — Bend, Oregon
Imperial Stout11% ABV🇺🇸 USA

Aged in bourbon, wine, and other barrels — with liquorice, molasses, vanilla, and oak notes. Annual release with varying barrel profiles. One of the Pacific Northwest's most celebrated barrel-aged stouts.

#85bells-kalamazoo

Bell's Kalamazoo Stout

Bell's Brewery — Kalamazoo, Michigan
American Stout6% ABV🇺🇸 USA

Bell's first beer, brewed since 1985 when Larry Bell used a 15-gallon soup pot. Roasted malt, coffee, and chocolate. A Michigan institution and proof that session-strength stouts can be deeply satisfying.

#97guinness-foreign-extra

Guinness Foreign Extra Stout

Guinness — Dublin, Ireland
Foreign Extra Stout7.5% ABV🇮🇪 Ireland

Stronger and more bitter than Draught — closer to the original Guinness recipe created for export in 1801. Dark fruit, roasted barley, coffee, and a pronounced bitterness. Still brewed in Nigeria, Jamaica, Malaysia — adapting to local water and ingredients.