Arcadia Cocoa Loco Triple Chocolate Stout

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

Pours dark with a thick tan head. Aroma is of chocolate, coffee, malt, and alcohol. Taste is of sweet chocolate with a slightly bitter coffee aftertaste. Very good stout.

In the bottle at the 2008 Crescent Moon Summer Beer Fest. Pours a black with a dark brown thick creamy head. Also milk chocolate aroma. Great big chocolate taste. This is like drinking a hershey’s chocolate bar. Not bitter at all. Has a milk tartness and finishes chalky. A good beer.

22oz bottle. "Vintage: 2006" on the label. Pours a black body with a dense and foamy, two finger-width, brown head that never completely dissipates and leaves a foamy veil on the surface throughout the session. Aroma is a dry, moderate cardboard sweetness with some milky chocolates and a lot of molasses. A light lactic sourness with some berry fruit to it and a light roasty coffee. There is also a light, leafy hop as well. Flavor is the same. Milky chocolates and plenty of molasses sweetness. Dry roasts, a somewhat lactic sourness, and a light amount of leafy bitterness dries this in the finish. Sweet chocolate and molasses aftertaste that lingers for a moderate duration. Medium to full body, somewhat chalky, and a high carbonation. Overall, an interesting stout. Very sweet, but has a chalky cocoa bitterness and a fair amount of roasts that keep this in check. The carbonation is high, making it drinkable, but its somewhat bothersome. Not bad, just unremarkable.

Bottle. Coffee aroma with a dark brown body. Roasted Malt and coffee flavor, sweet and bitter finish

Black pour with tan head. Not sure why i got this one, as arcadia always sucks. Aroma smells like coffee. Flavor is chocolate and coffee. Kind of tastes like a chocolate covered coffee bean. Flavor is pretty one dimensional in that that’s all that’s here.

Murky black pour with a small ring of loose, off-white head. The aroma is a dry, earthy, cocoa powder with some rolled oats and a touch of black coffee. The flavor is milk chocolate, bitter burnt coffee, a lacto sugar creaminess and a dry mushroomy like finish. The flavor is just sharp and off balance. The body is oily and full with too much alcohol accentuating the sharp bitterness. Didn’t care much for this at all.

Bottle: Poured a oil can black with a light brown cream head. The aroma is full of chocolate and alcohol. The taste strikes first with dark rich chocolate, then leaves a nice biter hops and alcohol warming finish.

Very good beer. Bought from Siciliano’s Market in Standale. Poured dark with no head. The aroma was quite strong but not as strong as other stouts. Lots of chocolate overtones. Very tasty with an excellent finish. Top notch Arcadia.