Empyrean Match+Maker Chocolate Salted Caramel Stout

Ill-Gotten Booty has some opinions about adding flavorings to beers: sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and sometimes it's just cleverness just for the sake of cleverness. Fruit flavors go well with sours, spices go well with winter ales, bourbon barrel aging adds to the quadruppel experience. And things like coffee, caramel and chocolate add to stouts and porters. 

The base beer of Match+Maker is a stout. Empyrean has always done good stout & porters, their year 'round oatmeal stout and vanilla porter are some of my favorite locals. Like most stouts, the hop bitterness is low, 16 IBUs, with a healthy 6% ABV. Not quite sessionable, but you can have more than one! Added to the brew are Guatemalan cacao nibs, with cacao, sea salt and caramel added to the finished beer. This l'il beauty would go well with brownies or vanilla bean ice cream, or even cheesecake.  8.5 on the IGB flavored stout scale.