Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout

Bottle, Mondial 2009. Good head retention. Aroma is big chocolate and caramel/brown/syrupy sugar. Taste is bitter dark chocolate, coffee and brown sugar. Palate is very oily. Really good brew !!

Extremely dark color. Thick foam. Sweet smell of hops and chocolate. Heavily roasted flavor but round. Clear tones of coffee and dark chocolate. Also a tonne of the swedish delicacy julmust. The aftertaste is long, much thanks to roasting. A wonderful beer that is very well balanced and extremely affordable.

Bottle but would like to try this on tap. Solid chocolate stout, roasted flavors as well. Need to try aging this brew. The aroma on this beer is great.

Bottle for 08/09 season. Very dark black color, small white head that disappeared after few sips. Tast of black malt and hops, bitter aftertaste that has some coffee in it. For a surprise I did not taste alcohol at all.

I don’t really want to say "just another chocolate stout," because it’s a pretty tasty beer, all-told, but there’s really nothing about it to me that makes it stand out from the pack. Lots of chocolate, coffee flavors, and a smooth finish. Nothing earth-shattering.

[bottle] Roasty aroma with some vanilla and even some bourbon and some hops detectable behind potent mocha. Thick, crude oil with a not too long lasting light brown foam that nicely laces the glass. Heavily roasted malt flavour that is salty from a bucketload of hops and with a bitterness that comes from black malt and hops. The chocolate effect is nice, but subtle and comes in later in the taste. Nutty, brown sugar, burnt almost, lots of vanilla. Thick and chewy feel, with a pleasant, toasty lasting bitter ending and moderate carbonation.

The looks is brown to black in color with a good sized tan colored head. The smell is a nice chocolate aroma, coffee, more dark chocolate, roasty, and brownies. The taste is alcohol, chocolate, roasty, coffee, and dark fruits.

This is an 08/09 bottle. Appearance - Close to black with a 1 finger head. Looks very light for an RIS. This looks a little lacking, but still delicious. Smell - Alcohol is the dominant smell in there, but that isn’t a horrible thing. It smells like alcohol infused dark bakers chocolate. Really smells like chocolate malt was used in massive bulk amounts. Taste - Dark bakers chocolate coming out in full swing here. That dark chocolate is a huge flavor, a little bit of caramel in there. The alcohol is present like in the nose, stings a little. This seems like it is a little too fresh still. Mouthfeel - Like how it looks, it feels a little light for the style. Doesn’t really coat the mouth much at all, and it feels a little overcarbonated too. Kind of a prickly feeling. Drinkability - the light mouthfeel could make this a hell of a lot easier to session, especially if I felt like getting drunk. The high abv would definitely help there as well. This is a good beer, but it just isn’t a great beer.