Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout

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

Serve in Snifter

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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!

Very Dark, with little (tan) head. Pleasant nose. Very full flavor, yet still a little lighter than you might expect. Very flavorful. I had trouble finding this one, and hope to find more!

One of my favorite Imperials. Dark black in color. Slight aroma of hops, alcohol, and a strong taste and aroma of chocolate. This is an excellent brew. Many Thanks UnionMade for sending this one my way.

Smooth dark chocolate flavors and aromas. This is not burly like Rasputin, but rather a bit more like Storm King, with delicious flavors wound very tightly for a great tipple. A lighter but wonderful Imperial Stout.

<P>Imperial Stout Blind Tasting (11-16-02): Decent head, dark body. Burn of alcohol, cherry tartness, some chocolate roastiness, burnt. More dry than the Hercule. <P>Pours perfectly black with a beautiful deep tan head. The head is slow to form and disspipates quickly however. The Aroma is chocolate, espresso, burnt toast with a bit of fruitiness that makes it seem like the burnt toast has jelly or jam on it. The aroma floods the nose and starts the salivary glands. Burnt toast flavor and a thin bitterness from the hops dominate early on switching to espresso and unsweetened black chocolate later on and a lingering, bitter finish. That’s while cold. When closer to room temperature the flavors mellow with the sharp burnt and espresso bitterness become less sharp sliding under a sweeter more chocolately taste. Mouthfeel is slightly oily, but not as thick or gritty as some other imperials. One of the lighter beers of the style.

Poured deep black with a generous Ovaltine colored head and lacing from top down. Aroma of chocolate and brandy. The taste is full of dark semi-sweet chocolate and caramel; some plums, some alcohol. Finished the same, but dried out slightly. The taste is slow to leave. Tasty.

I have to say that I liked this beer a lot. Only got to try it in the bottle, and one at that. Re-rate: This beer is what a stout should be! From a great aroma to a wonderful finish, this is it.

2002 bottling. Aroma not very assertive, but nice; bitter bakers chocolate, mostly. Flavor is strongly bitter and acidic, with some nice chocolate, but overall seems rather harsh and dry to me. Sweet? Either the recipe changed, I’ve got different tastes than most of you, or I’ve just had all of the sweetest Imperials already. This was NOT too sweet in my book, though the bitterness does ease off as it approaches room temp. Interesting, drinkable even, but not in my opinion a great Imperial.

It’s like drinking Hershey’s syrup! Good and chocolaty! A great after dinner drink.

Tasted at the Barrelhouse Brewing Company Microbrew Fest on November 9. One of the top 5 beers I tried at the festival. Pours how you would expect liquid dark chocolate to pour. Surprisingly lively tongue with chocolate (duh), clover and well-masked alcohol flavor. This is great stuff!