Ohio’s highest rated stouts

The stout is known for being especially full-bodied, dark, strong, lightly sweet, and sometimes creamy. It often features flavor notes of roasted coffee, chocolate, and malt. However, the versatility of a stout lends itself to more experimentation than one might assume.

Yes, there are the more well-known Irish and English stouts, American stouts (and double stouts), Russian imperial stouts, but there are also oatmeal stouts, milk stouts, oyster stouts, blonde stouts, barrel-aged pastry stouts, and more—and they all have varying flavor profiles, colors, and alcohol strengths.

Stacker compiled a list of the best stouts from Ohio using data from BeerAdvocate. A maximum of 5 stouts per brewery were included. Accompanying each stout is its brewery, its rating on BeerAdvocate, the stout type, and its ABV. Are you interested in expanding your horizons past the most mainstream of the stouts? Check out the best stouts brewed in your very own state.

#21. Blackout Stout

– Rating: 4.2 (3,676 ratings)
– Type: Russian Imperial Stout
– ABV: 9.90%
– Brewery: Great Lakes Brewing Co.
– Read more on BeerAdvocate

#20. Bourbon Barrel Canis Mexicanus

– Rating: 4.3 (37 ratings)
– Type: Russian Imperial Stout
– ABV: 10.40%
– Brewery: Wolf’s Ridge Brewing
– Read more on BeerAdvocate

#19. Total Eclipse Breakfast Stout

– Rating: 4.22 (418 ratings)
– Type: American Imperial Stout
– ABV: 9.10%
– Brewery: Maumee Bay Brewing Company
– Read more on BeerAdvocate

#18. Underverse Coffee – BBA

– Rating: 4.39 (24 ratings)
– Type: American Imperial Stout
– ABV: 13.60%
– Brewery: Masthead Brewing Co.
– Read more on BeerAdvocate

#17. Bourbon Barrel Aged Siberian Night Imperial Stout

– Rating: 4.25 (1,221 ratings)
– Type: Russian Imperial Stout
– ABV: 10.90%
– Brewery: Thirsty Dog Brewing Company
– Read more on BeerAdvocate

#16. Girth Brooks – Bourbon Barrel-Aged

– Rating: 4.44 (19 ratings)
– Type: American Imperial Stout
– ABV: 15.00%
– Brewery: Hoof Hearted Brewing
– Read more on BeerAdvocate

#15. Whiskey Rebellion

– Rating: 4.29 (92 ratings)
– Type: Russian Imperial Stout
– ABV: 11.00%
– Brewery: Warped Wing Brewing Company
– Read more on BeerAdvocate

#14. Dire Wolf Canis Mexicanus

– Rating: 4.3 (95 ratings)
– Type: Russian Imperial Stout
– ABV: 10.40%
– Brewery: Wolf’s Ridge Brewing
– Read more on BeerAdvocate

#13. Axis Mundi – Coffee And Vanilla – Barrel-Aged

– Rating: 4.3 (140 ratings)
– Type: Russian Imperial Stout
– ABV: 10.50%
– Brewery: MadTree Brewing
– Read more on BeerAdvocate

#12. T.O.R.I.S. The Tyrant

– Rating: 4.31 (250 ratings)
– Type: Russian Imperial Stout
– ABV: 13.80%
– Brewery: Hoppin’ Frog Brewery
– Read more on BeerAdvocate

#11. B.O.R.I.S. The Crusher – Extended Barrel-Aged

– Rating: 4.35 (85 ratings)
– Type: Oatmeal Stout
– ABV: 9.40%
– Brewery: Hoppin’ Frog Brewery
– Read more on BeerAdvocate

#10. Barrel-Aged Q.O.R.I.S. the Quasher

– Rating: 4.45 (28 ratings)
– Type: Russian Imperial Stout
– ABV: 15.70%
– Brewery: Hoppin’ Frog Brewery
– Read more on BeerAdvocate

#9. D.O.R.I.S. The Destroyer – Barrel-Aged

– Rating: 4.33 (458 ratings)
– Type: Russian Imperial Stout
– ABV: 10.50%
– Brewery: Hoppin’ Frog Brewery
– Read more on BeerAdvocate

#8. BBA Fitness Freak

– Rating: 4.41 (55 ratings)
– Type: American Imperial Stout
– ABV: 14.00%
– Brewery: Hoof Hearted Brewing
– Read more on BeerAdvocate

#7. T.O.R.I.S. The Tyrant – Barrel-Aged

– Rating: 4.39 (77 ratings)
– Type: Russian Imperial Stout
– ABV: 13.80%
– Brewery: Hoppin’ Frog Brewery
– Read more on BeerAdvocate

#6. Blackout Stout – Barrel-Aged

– Rating: 4.35 (1,869 ratings)
– Type: Russian Imperial Stout
– ABV: 9.50%
– Brewery: Great Lakes Brewing Co.
– Read more on BeerAdvocate

#5. Oro Negro

– Rating: 4.41 (965 ratings)
– Type: American Imperial Stout
– ABV: 13.70%
– Brewery: Jackie O’s Brewpub
– Read more on BeerAdvocate

#4. Dark Apparition – Double Barrel-Aged

– Rating: 4.52 (46 ratings)
– Type: Russian Imperial Stout
– ABV: 13.00%
– Brewery: Jackie O’s Brewpub
– Read more on BeerAdvocate

#3. Bourbon Barrel Champion Ground

– Rating: 4.47 (699 ratings)
– Type: American Imperial Stout
– ABV: 12.90%
– Brewery: Jackie O’s Brewpub
– Read more on BeerAdvocate

#2. Bourbon Barrel Oro Negro

– Rating: 4.48 (617 ratings)
– Type: American Imperial Stout
– ABV: 12.10%
– Brewery: Jackie O’s Brewpub
– Read more on BeerAdvocate

#1. Appervation

– Rating: 4.52 (334 ratings)
– Type: American Imperial Stout
– ABV: 15.00%
– Brewery: Jackie O’s Brewpub
– Read more on BeerAdvocate