Chocolate Porter Sauce for #choctoberfest

A rich, decadent chocolate sauce laced with a deep dark barrel aged craft beer: namely the Central Waters Rum Barrel Coconut Porter, which is deep and dark and aged in a rum barrel with hints of coconut and cola. It has an alcohol content of 12.5%. (Yeah, that’s pretty high for a beer! It’s even higher than many wines.) This beer is like the double rum coke of beers. It’s so intense in flavor that I actually couldn’t drink the whole bottle. You guys, that NEVER happens. I drink deep, dark beers all the time, usually the biggest size I can order. But not this one. I drank about half of the bottle and then I was done. I was totally satisfied and I didn’t want any more. But I didn’t want to waste it either … I mean this is a seriously delicious beer! Maybe I could cook something with it? I put a cork in the bottle and stuck it back in the fridge until I figured out what to do with it.

It wasn’t too long until I ran across this recipe from Work Cook Eat. And I knew I had found the perfect use for my special porter. I’m a HUGE fan of hot fudge sauce … and ever since I made that Bailey’s Hot Fudge Sauce, I knew that hot fudge sauce made with alcohol is about a gazillion times better. So fudge sauce made with a rich, rum-barrel aged, high alcohol content porter should be amazing, right?

I’ve got more to say about the chocolate sauce, but I have to interrupt this post for an important message from #Choctoberfest 2018: it’s the LAST DAY of #Choctoberfest, you guys! That means it’s your LAST CHANCE to enter the huge chocolate prize pack giveaway worth over $400 including goodies from Imperial Sugar, Barlean’s, Divine Chocolate, Forte Chocolates and Sprinkle Pop. You can find the giveaway here. (I know it’s a long post … just keep scrolling until you find the rafflecopter thingy where it says #Choctoberfest Prize Pack Worth over $400!.) Because there are so many sponsors and so many participants, you can sign up for a whole bunch of chances to win. Have I convinced you to enter yet? GO NOW! DO IT!

Okay I’m done yelling at you … let’s talk about chocolate sauce. So, it turns out that chocolate sauce made with a rich, dark, barrel aged, high alcohol content Rum Barrel Coconut Porter is oh my gosh ah-mazing. This chocolate sauce isn’t as thick as my Bailey’s fudge sauce, but I didn’t mind one bit. It might be the beer talking, but I think maybe I love this chocolate sauce even more.

In case you don’t have this Rum Barrel Coconut Porter where you live, substitute any thick dark sweet stout or porter. Choose something that has notes of coffee or chocolate (or coconut!). It should be really dark in color. Like black or dark dark brown. A milk stout or cream stout would be excellent, especially if it’s barrel aged. The really cool thing is you aren’t going to use the whole beer in your sauce, so you get to drink some beer too! I love recipes like that …

I also love what Casey (from Work Cook Eat) has to say about her version of this sauce:

It’s the most grown up way to make chocolate sauce. And probably the most delicious too. This chocolate stout sauce is SO good y’all. It’s not as cloyingly sweet as the stuff you buy at the grocery store, it’s dark and rich. It doesn’t scream beer at you either, it’s just a little malty and warm. It’s grown up and sophisticated. AND YOU CAN MAKE CHOCOLATE MILK WITH IT.

Um yeah, you totally can make chocolate milk with it! But I prefer to drizzle it over ice cream. Especially over boozy chocolate fudge ice cream, because yeah, sometimes one dose of chocolate just isn’t enough. I’m kind of a serious choco-holic.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this week of #Choctoberfest … I sure have! It was a LOT of work, but a lot of fun too.

But tomorrow, we’re going to return to healthy recipes, people. We need something good and healthy to combat all the chocolate I’ve shared this week … I’ve got some really delicious recipes lined up that I’m totally excited to share with you!

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In case you need MORE chocolate recipes, here’s what my fellow food bloggers have concocted today:

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