Samuel Adams Chocolate Bock

Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Dunkler Bock
Boston, Massachusetts USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Snifter

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Pours jet black with a one finger head that disapates quickly into nothing. Aroma of roasted malts and chocolate. Taste follows the nose but with chocolate as the star a bit sweet but not crazy. This is tasty, a good dessert beer but not a more than one beer

Slight chocolate aroma. Very dark with tan head. Chocolate taste with nice sweety finish. Surprisingly fairly easy to drink. AYou very nice beer.

Serving: 12 oz. bottle from Wegmans Leesburg. It pours dark brown with lots of ruby highlights and a large but short lived tan head. The nose is light with notes of cocoa powder and bittersweet chocolate. The flavor has a chocolate, cherry, and cola thing going on but gives way very quickly. A little on the sweet side with a medium to full body. Average carbonation gives way to a short to medium, sweet finish.

Unlike some chocolate stouts, this doesn’t over do the dark chocolate. Instead it has a fair bit of vanilla and milk chocolate. Very fun beer.

Originally reviewed: 12/22/10. Another bottle from the winter pack. Poured into a pint glass. Pours a dark murky brown. A thin creamy tan head caps it off, and some light lace lingers behind. Scents of vanilla, Hershey’s chocolate, and musty grains. The mouth is the weakest aspect of this beer. Thin and slick going down. Carbonation level is short and tame. This is definitely a chocolate beer first and foremost. Lots of creamy milk chocolate, cocoa, some sweet vanilla, and more chocolate. There isn’t a bitter presence at all. This is for sure a dessert beer. It was pleasant to drink, but I’d need to be in the mood for something like this.

The aroma is part milk stout and lactose (are those aromas?), and part vanilla. The chocolate doesn’t appear until the finish, which is long, gentle and sweet. Can’t say a lot about the appearance beyond the thick brown color and the medium head, which subsides quickly. Pleasantly creamy texture.

Poured into a pint glass. Dark brown, almost black color. Half a finger of tan head. Smells like milk chocolate and nothing else. A balanced taste of chocolate and malt sweetness. Medium bodied, moderate carbonation and a silky texture to it. A descent enough drink, but nothing more than "Chocolate" and "Bock". Easy to drink and smooth, I just wish there was a little more to it.

pours black, with a white head that disappears quickly. the aroma is Chocolate, roasted malts and sweet malt. The flavor is straight up front with chocolate and finished throughout. with an underlying or roasted barley, and caramel. The body to me seems to be a medium to heavier one. Overall this is good, but i like others of the style more.

Pours a fairly opaque dark brown, with a thin, light tan head. The head disappears rather quickly and only a trace amount of lacing remains. Aroma of, yes, chocolate--but more of a sweet milk chocolate than cocoa. The smell of highly processed candy is also dominant--for some reason, red licorice (Strawberry Twizzlers). While typical beer aromas are not there, the taste is more in line with a lager--albeit a highly flavored one. Sweetness of milk chocolate is matched almost equally by the sweetness of toasted malts. No hop bitterness evident at all--this one’s sweet all the way. There may be a mild butter toffee flavor in the background. Alcohol can also be detected. Mouthfeel is watery with just a trace of carbonation, which is right in line with this style. In sum: I’ve tried this beer just about every year since it began. Despite the various changes that Samuel Adams has made to ingredients and bottling, it’s flavor has remained almost the same. Because there are few chocolate lagers to begin with, this beer stands out. But it’s ability to truly convey a milk chocolate flavor makes it a winner. If you love dessert beers, this one’s a MUST.

Hard to choose between this one and Brooklyn’s. Ive had this as a big bottle way back and as part of the Holiday Sampler in ’11. Very good if you like chocolate stouts. a must-try