Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout

Pours a deep oil black with a dark tan head. Aroma is heavy duty malt chocolate and some coffee and roasted. A tiny bit of vanilla and molasses as well. Flavor starts very rich with chocolate and bitter cocoa beans. Quickly gains a sweet edge with the vanilla and chocolate malt that helps hold a balance. Some earthy oak in the finish gives this beer a nice depth. Medium-full body and sticky mouth feel. Excellent imperial stout. [Re-rate 3-9-09. Much more port and a nice bit of black cherry tartness after aging for a bit. Flavor picks up much complexity. Quite tasty again]

Bottle pours oily black with tan head. Has chocolate aromas, ash, dark malts, alcohol, and yeast. Has a heavy body. Flavors are nice. Roasted coffee, chocolate, bitter flavors, ash, creamy feel, and finishes with a nice bitter sweet chocolate presence. Overall this is very nice example of the style. I’m sure this one will age well.

Beautiful oil-black pour with a frothy brown head. Aroma is faint amounts of roasted coffee beans and roasted malts. Dark, bitter toasted chocolate flavor with a hint of alcohol. Finish is unique, bitter but at the same time sweet and creamy. Excellent.

On tap from a pint glass (unfortunately). Black pour with small thin but existent head. Flavor is pleasing - slight bitterness, a touch of alcohol heat, definite chocolate malt, and some hopes. Mouthfell is decent and good lacing.

2008 Bottle. Poured a deep black with a one finger brown/red head. Aroma of bitter chocolate, coffee and roasted malt. Flavor was a little sweet, with a good chocolate aftertaste, and a strong coffee intial note. Full body with soft carbonation and a creamy/sticky mouthfeel. Great beer. Glad I bought a sixer.

V.’08-’09 bottle Textbook opaqueness but a rather extreme head with staying power for a RIS. Nice aroma of the usual roasted malt variety, but I think this is where my usual joy stops for this little ditty. This is my second try at this beer tonight and I’m met with equally frustrating results. I wanted my displeasure to be a fluke. It is flat, thin and has not one tale to tell. Brooklyn conditioned this for a little too long I think. Sure the heat is gone, but so is the flavor. My other vintages don’t suffer this badly. This has always been a ’’go to’’...

Wow! Pours a thick black tar color with tan creamy head. Smells of roasted, chocolate, coffee, and a little carmel. Tastes sweet like chocolate hard candy. Very thick flavor and sticky. Flavor stick around for a while. I’m not much of a stout person, but this is very good.

Thanks to lithy for the bottle!
Black and oily with a tan ring for a head. Nose is sweet and malty, slightly medicinal, but still balanced: cherry, licorice, chocolate, definite alcohol. Flavor is very salty and very alcoholic. Chocolate and roasted malt, a little smoky, and with warmth, I get some slight herbal hop. Palate is a little thin but still balanced. The heavy malt really keeps BBCS from Weyerbacher levels of medicinal; it’s so close to failing though. But it doesn’t, and it’s decent stuff. Tames with warmth, where more balance is achieved and a roasty bitterness emerges to finish it off nicely.