Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout

Brewed by Brooklyn Brewery
Style: Imperial Stout
Brooklyn, New York USA

Serve in Snifter

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Jet black pour, with small hot chocolate looking head. Aroma had roasted malt and an alcohol kick to it. Taste was initially roasted coffe, bitter chocolate - quickly turning to a tongue coating dark chocolate sweetness that lasts and lasts and lasts. Although the alcohol is in the aroma it sneaks up on you in the brew.

Bottle from the Winter ’02-’03 vintage. One of the best heads I’ve seen on a bottle of beer. It looked nitrogen fueled as it cascaded upwards. The head has two colors and is thick and foamy. The color is solid black. The chocolate aftertaste is a delight. The aroma is intense and has a strong alcohol presence along with malts and bread. A creamy body and bitter sweet chocolates cover the palate.

Immediately apparent vinous notes in the aroma. Has a nice head over an archtypical imperial body. Fruit flavors are more pronounced than others of the style, and it has a slightly sour finish. Nice thick palate to match the style, though not as buttery as the le Coq. Overall, a good brew.

01-02:BLACK! All light rays from 3 100 watt bulbs absorbed. VISCID! Minimal head with a tan halo adhered to the glass. Bitter-sweet chocolate aromas coalesce with black licorice forming a mildly astringent vapor that you can almost feel in your lungs. First sip coats the tongue like a chocolaty oil of espresso. Super smooth on the palate. Flavors draining off my papillea remind me of the dregs in a last sip of coffee. Great roasted malt flavor. Unfermented sugars slide down the glass like a port wine. Alcohol present, but unobtrusive. Bitter chocolate after taste. Mild astringency lingers on the tongue. One of the better imperials I’ve sampled.

UPDATED: JAN 20, 2006 Roasted Chocolate nose. Black bodz with a huge frothy hazelnut milk chocolate brown head. Tastes like chocolate that contents 80 % cocao beans, roasted malt. Fullmouth long lasting taste. Great. 9/5/9/4/18 - 4.3 RERATE: Bottle: Big hazelnut brown sticky head. Pitch black. Long lasting coffee beans and bitter chocolate nose. Such a great and well balanced crisp chocolate and coffee taste. Not the typical bitter coffee taste. Smooth - and just yummie aftertaste.

Chocolate all around - in the nose and in the taste. An espresso bitterness at the end balances the sweet front part of the strong, full taste profile. Beautiful - simply beautiful!

I love the "burnt" smell of this stout. Very nice all around flavor.

UPDATED: AUG 27, 2007 Great appearance, even darker and blacker and more light sucking than Victory Storm King, with a small coffee colored head. Gorgeous. Taste of sweet dark malt and espresso perfectly balanced with just a touch of hoppiness. Surprisingly inexpensive and absolutely wonderful. OK, it uses chocolate barley malt (a color and style of roasting barley malt), not chocolate, but it still has some hint of chocolate somewhere. // Rerated 29 October 2003. Really still fine, but not a 4.8. Great bang for the buck, but just not as complex as I thought the first couple of times I had one. Wonderful, but just not a 4.8.// Again, nice, but I need to recalibrate my earlier rating.

2002-2003 vintage. The darkest of blacks with a thick chestnut colored head. Very warming aromas of chocolate, brownies and a hint of roasted coffee. Flavors of espresso and dark chocolate. Slightly wine-like on the palate. An excellent impy and a great value to boot.

Heavy roasted bitter aroma. The flavor is as full as flavors get. Nice roasty, bitter, acidic, chocolate, and some fruitiness (plum I think). As others have said, this beer is a meal. Heavy feel...heavy everything. It is black, with a small, creamy light brown head. I gotta thank Hopscotch for this one. Wow!