Cains Chocolate Ale

Bottle, best before date reads June 2000, one of those beers that I bought approx’ 7 years ago and sort of forgot about. Pours very clear deep red and aroma was very much of a cup of warm cup of cocoey chocolate, but a milky chocolate rather than a bitter/dark one. Taste again was much in the same vein and has not appeared to have suffered at all for it’s ageing. Agree with Joeh too chocolatey for beer fans and whilst I didn’t mind it at all it was a rather one dimensional beer.

Pours dark orange, very murky. There appears to be a black sediment in the bottle. Chocolate aroma (cocoa powder), nothing else comes through. Flavour once again is of neat cocoa powder, not enough sweetness to interest chocolate lovers (I would assume), and not enough beer flavour to interest beer lovers.

Bottled. Red brown with a slight haze, good rocky head and condition. Overwhelming aroma of cocoa powder swamping any other scents. Lots more chocolate flavour but with a delicate hop bitterness to balance it out, and a sweet chocolaty powdery finish.