Bison Organic Chocolate Stout

Draught at Stuffed Sandwich, San Gabriel. Dark brown, small creamy head. Notes of coffee. Sweet with plenty of molasses and rather mellow mouthfeel. Lightly salty finish. A sub-par stout.

Motor oil viscosity on the pour, leaving you with a virtually black body, topped by a medium deep mocha head. Great chocolate aroma tinged with a bit of coffee. Flavor is rich, chocolate and roasty coffee, some hops at the back of the throat.

Date: 07/31/2004
Mode: Bottle
Source: Bullock’s

chocolate aroma immediatly upon opening the bottle and even before pouring the thick black liquid into the glass, nice tan head, rich roasted chocolate aroma and flavor, flavor just keeps getting richer as it warms, lots of bitterness in the finish that eventually becomes too much after a while, overall a very good stout except for the overdone bitter malt finish
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Date: 01/19/2005

still good flavor over shadowed by too much bitterness

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Score: **+/4
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The score was calculated based upon the notes and an old scoring system.

Bottle. Pretty decent little stout. Heaps of roasted bitterness, and bitter chocolate. Decent balance and flavour, not particularly complex, but tasty.

Opaque black pour that grows a large 1-inch tall foam that looks nitro-generated. Its aroma feels a bit simplistic due to its lack of dimensions, but the focus is there, hitting us directly with coffee beans and rather pure cocoa graininess. The result is a rather dry beer, certainly powdery and direct, but confident in its graininess. Limited hop profile is compensated by bitter roastiness.