Arcadia Cocoa Loco Triple Chocolate Stout

Brewed by Arcadia Brewing Company
Style: Foreign Stout
Battle Creek, Michigan USA

2007 bomber bottle. Pours opaque dark brown with a thick tan head that subsides but still leaves nice lace. Soft aromas of bakers chocolate, sweet molasses and a touch of briny lactic acid. Flavor includes much the same along with pronounced hop bitterness, especially in the finish. Medium full bodied with a chalky mouthfeel. Moderate carbonation and relatively smooth. Nothing mind-blowing but a pretty solid chocolate stout.

Bomber bottle...aged for 18 months or more.....consumed 7-18-09....Rich chocolaty aroma wrapped in chocolate...with age it brings a richness ......it looks lovely dark and dark...rich roasted coffee beans and sweet dark chocolate fill my nose...viscous body with similar flavors to the aroma except both the coffee and chocolate take on a bitterness...this is very good...I cant find anything wrong with it

No way is this a stout. A great beer for sure but not a stout. Totally lacking that full creamy stout mouthfeel, it definately comes through with its well balanced chocolatey finish and all those cocoa, molasses and carmel flavours in between. Colour is that pitch black no nonsense stout like description with very little carbonation giving it an almost un-noticeable trace of light brown lacing on top. A little bit of burned toast somewhere in there as well. Nice beer, but hardly a stout.

Pours a dark brown color with a thin brown head that quickly disappears. Hints of coffee in the aroma, but not very strong. Malt and coffee are most prominent in the flavor, with a slight dark chocolate taste as well.

12oz bottle poured into a shaker. This stout pours black with a thin brown head that leaves little lacing. The aroma is nice but mostly sweet chocolate offset lightly with alcohol and hops. The body is thick and chewy as would be expected for the type. The expected chocolate makes an appearance but is smoothed out by the lactose. There is a roastiness that adds a bit of complexity to the brew. All in all this is a nice beer with a hearty finish.

2008 Bottle from Binny’s, aged a year and shared at Jordan’s Weinerfest. Pours pitch black with faint beige head. Nose is strong chocolate and some roasted malt. Taste has lots of bitter chocolate and a little on the dry side. Maybe this would have been better fresh...the year of age certainly didn’t help IMHO. This was no where close to the quality of the vanilla bean 1-off I had at the brewery last month.

Bomber into pint glass. Poured a slightly slick dark brown with a decent airy tan head. Coffee aroma immediately and bitter dark chocolate in the flavor but smooth. My first offering from Arcadia and not bad. I’d have to agree with Headbanger though, ST Choklat is to die for and far exceeds this brew.

22oz bottle 9/19/09 (Binny’s Naperville)-Pours a very dark brown with a decent loose tan head that dissipates rather quickly. Aroma of roasted malt and slight sourness. Hope it’s not bad. Taste of chocolate, coffee, and more chocolate. This medium bodied brew is a bit thin but still very tasty and fairly well balanced but not as good as ST Choklat.