These beers rank highest on the hopIQ Score — a nightly-updated weighting of style authenticity, award history, and community signals. Filter by style family or country to narrow the list; the top-3 podium and full ranking below always reflect the current day’s data.
How this ranking works
The hopIQ Score judges every beer against its style first: it rewards medals from competitions that judge within style categories and deducts points where a beer measurably deviates from its style reference. Community ratings add to that. Non-alcoholic excluded. No paid placement — order follows the data alone. Ranking spans 327 beers from 260 breweries.
Top 5 of 50
Dusk Til DawnBest Overall
ABV
10.5%
Bitterness
Strongly bitter
Colour
dark 28
Dusk Til Dawn is the imperial coffee porter of Pizza Port's San Clemente brewpub, a nod to the graveyard shift and to late-night vampire films. It is brewed with hand-roasted coffee beans from a local roaster, and the coffee aroma rises as… Ranked on fit to the Porter reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
ABV
7.5%
Bitterness
Strongly bitter
Colour
dark 28
A strong, black beer at 7.5% based on eighteenth-century recipes, with brown, amber and black malts mixed into pale ale malt. The nose brings coffee, chocolate, leather and liquorice, with treacle toffee and a distant smokiness; the palate… Ranked on fit to the Porter reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
ABV
6.2%
Bitterness
Noticeably bitter
Colour
dark 28
Surtr is a top-fermented smoked porter, deep black in the glass and named after the fire giant of Norse myth. Roast and coffee lead, followed by dark chocolate and dried fruit, while a fine smoke note stays in the background and frames the… Ranked on fit to the Porter reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
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ABV
5.8%
Bitterness
Noticeably bitter
Colour
dark 28
A black, dense and velvety porter built on a blend of roasted and caramel malts with small amounts of peated malt. Caramel, chocolate and coffee come through strongly, and the peat adds a delicate nuance reminiscent of whisky rather than… Ranked on fit to the Porter reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
5
ABV
6.0%
Bitterness
Noticeably bitter
Colour
dark 35
Hand-toasted coconut meets hints of mocha and a coffee-roast aroma in this robust porter, deep brown to black in the glass. The flavor delivers real coconut with a subdued, spicy complexity. The beer launched in cans in 2007 as CoCoNut… Ranked on fit to the Porter reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
Ranks 6–10
6
A classic robust porter — roasted malt, dark chocolate, and a touch of coffee bitterness in the finish. Drinks lighter than its color suggests, making it dangerously sessionable for a beer this dark. Ranked on fit to the Porter reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
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A bottom-fermented Baltic Porter, decoction-mashed, with locally produced forest honeydew honey added. It pours deep black. Toffee, dark cocoa and coffee carry the aroma. The palate is enveloping and velvety, very intense yet well… Ranked on fit to the Porter reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
8
A robust porter that opens with toasted coconut and coffee aromas, followed by hints of rich, silky chocolate and dark malt. It is brewed with hand-toasted coconut and estate coffee and drinks smooth at 5.8 % and 33 IBU. Draft and cans… Ranked on fit to the Porter reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
9
A Baltic porter at 8.5% that is clean, crisp and full of flavour. Roasted malts supply recognisable coffee aromas without taking over, joined by a light touch of caramel. The body is slightly creamy and the finish is tight, which keeps a… Ranked on fit to the Porter reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
10
Iron Hill's signature dark beer and a perennial favourite — roasted malt, chocolate, and a touch of coffee over a medium body, smooth and deeply satisfying. Dark enough to intrigue, light enough to drink all evening. The beer that defines… Ranked on fit to the Porter reference, award history in style-judged competitions and community ratings.
The taste landscape
Of the 50 top beers, 29 lean malt-forward and 1 lean hop-forward.