Ironhill x SMOOR brew Cocoa Stout in Bengaluru after 15 trial blends
Bengaluru microbrewery Ironhill India and chocolatier SMOOR launched Cocoa Stout, a craft beer-chocolate mashup six months in the making with 15 iterations and locally sourced cocoa. The duo are already plotting a non-alcoholic chocolate beer and spent-grain bread, signaling deeper cross-category retail experiments.
Bengaluru microbrewery Ironhill India and artisanal chocolate brand SMOOR launched Cocoa Stout, a craft beer-chocolate collaboration developed over six months with 15 trial blends, using locally procured cocoa. Future plans include non-alcoholic chocolate beer and spent-grain bread.
Why this matters
Ironhill is moving beyond standard craft taps into co-branded F&B builds, using SMOOR's chocolate equity to differentiate in Bengaluru's crowded microbrewery scene and tee up adjacent SKUs like spent-grain bread.
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