Bison Organic Chocolate Stout

Brewed by Bison Brewing Company
Style: Stout
Berkeley, California USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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12 oz bottle. Thanks, Brenn79. Inky black pour with a medium dissipating tan lacy head. Aroma is roasty coffee--not picking up the cocoa. Taste is nice and roasty. Again, the chocolate is negligible. Creamy, chalky mouthfeel. Pretty good, but they should have amped up the chocolate if they’re going to call it a chocolate stout.

On tap at Dad’s Kitchen in Sacramento. Aroma was faint with chocolate and coffee notes. Pleasant and drinkable, but I like to taste more chocolate when drinking a "chocolate stout".

Not an every day beer, and not in my top ten, but decent. A exceptionally nice, very sweet, almost chocolate aroma, very small head. Pleasantly bitter but no real chocolate in the taste. Dry almost smoky finish. A good stout, but doesn’t live up to it’s specialty name.

Bottle. Pours black with a medium tan head. Aroma of chocolate, burned/heavy roasted malt, and a hint of soy sauce. Flavor of powdered chocolate, burnt malts, and light licorice and soy sauce. Bitter and chalky chocolate finish.

Dark brown with a thin beige head. Roasted, nutty nose with smokey notes. Full bodied with intense smoke on the palate. Very dry on the finish. Not sure where the chocolate is as this drinks more like smoked porter.

Initially chocolate aroma. The taste is a mediocre stout with some chocolate that gets drier and bitter (not from hops). Not very drinkable, though quaffable. Black with some white head. average mouthfeel, and average beer.

12 oz. bottle- Pours almost totally black with a two finger mocha colored head. Aroma is dark roasted malts, chocolate up the ass, coffee. The taste is bitter sweet chocolate, or cocoa, coffee, real roasted malty taste. Body is medium, mouthfeel is slightly creamy, but dry. Overall I usually like my chocolate beers more in the sweet milk chocolate taste, but there is no denying this beer is top notch, a really well crafted beer.

Pours black with two fingers tan head, decent retention. Smell is bitter chocolate and a bit of coffee roast, more roast than chocolate. Taste is dark chocolate and a lot of roasty coffee, a bit of a sour/bitter feel in the middle. Surprisingly light bodied. Decent.

Aroma is chocolate and mildly nutty. The flavor is roasted malts, mildly sweet chocolate and a fruity undertone.

Poured from my bottle a light black with tan head. The aroma was bitter sweet chocolate, malts, and yeast. Taste was light chcocolate, a malty backbone, and undertone of breadiness. Overall a decent beer, I was wishing for more of the chocolatey-bittersweet to come through tho. Not a great beer, but still highly drinkable.