Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout

07-08 bottle. Black pour with a 2 finger tan head that fades quickly to a thin ring. Chocolate and alcohol dominate the aroma with a healthy dose of roastiness and a noticeable amount of pine with a little bit of dark fruit and slightly vinous. Flavor is lots of bitter dark chocolate and coffee with lots of alcohol. A little more dark fruit and banana up front than the aroma with quite a lot of hop bitterness. Body is a bit thin for an imperial but fairly full. Loads of prickly carbonation break up the mouthfeel too. Just a bit too much alcohol coming out that seems to hide some otherwise great flavor and aroma. Some aging to mellow out the hotness would serve this beer well.

Bottle. Pours black with a tan head. Roasty aroma of cocoa and some coffee. Flavor is huge! roasty, dark malt, espresso and dark chocolate. This beer always seems to get overlooked when I am in the mood for an Imperial, but it should not. It holds its own with all but the very elite favorites. AND, at $8-9 for a 6 pack, it is a real bargain compared to many RISs.

Draught sample at Stogies and Stouts 2008. Will update rating asap when my head stops pounding.

Tap at Redlight. Pours black with a thin tan head in a snifter. Aroma is chocolate, dark fruit, cognac. Taste is smooth, roasted grains, chocolate, dried fruit and alcohol. Very good slow sipper.

Bottle. Pours tar, tan head. Aroma is malt, molasses, chocolate, metal (iron & copper), roasted nuts. Flavor is molasses, soy sauce, malt, caramel, pine, chocolate, coffee, toffee. Complex and hides the alcohol content well.

The bottle poured thick, smooth and black with chocolate milk foam. Aroma of pure bitter chocolate. Tastes like a mocha. Great roasty bitterness. Beautiful and impressive.

Pours fairly think and opaque black with little head. Flavor is definitely chocolate with some mocha flavors. High alcohol content is obvious when drinking it, almost tastes like there’s liquor mixed in with the brew. Overall, great taste and a great ability to get you drunk!

On tap at Redlight Redlight...Nose was very chocolaty, mixed with roasted malts. The flavor was caramelized figs, coffee, bitter dark chocolate, and alcohol. Definitly a slow sipper...the mouthfeel was somewhat thin, and the alcohol could’ve been hidden better. Good beer though...