College Green Mollys Chocolate Stout

College Green Brewery
Brewed at Hilden
Style: Stout
Belfast, Northern Ireland

Serve in English pint

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Cask conditioned at Oxford Beer Fest ’07. Dark brown with slight head. Sweetish thin stout lacking a depth of flavour. Some chocolaty malt apparant and a late bitterness, but overall lacking character, still drinkable though.

Cola-like pour with a thin tan lid. Aromas roasted malt, chocolate, hint of coffee, smoky. Very slightly dry and bitter on the palate. Chocolate and a coffee like bitterness the dominat tastes. Simple but tasty. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

garnet red-brown with minimal head. Noticeable legs for a beer at 4.3 unusual. Hint of beech-smoke then rich roast barley on the nose. Robust body with bitter coffee, dark chocolate and burnt toast. Finishes with a not unpleasant coffee astringency.

Trade. Dark beige pour with thich white head.. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee and dark dry chocolate.. A mild hop bite with the taste matching the aroma down to the dryness.

Bottle (500ml) shared with HogTownHarry & garthicus -- c/o garthicus. Pours dark brown with a small diminishing bubbly tan head. Mild aroma of cola, lightly roasted sweet malt and vanilla. Very watery flavour, like bottled cask beer, of roasted malt, chocolate. Quite thin, light bodied, no carbonation. Disappointing, just O.K. at best.

500ml bottle shared by garthicus with me a blankboy. Deep opague ruby with pretty much no head (what was, was frothy). Odd aroma - vanilla bean, grassy bitterness, light chocolate syrup, maybe a bit of paint thinner (6-). Taste - simple, cleaner, a bit of herbal bitterness, again background cheap chocolate syrup. Extremely thin and watery, pretty much no carbonation, and a sadly accelerated finish to what malt there was. Not offensive, but disappointing.

A stout with no head?? It looked like a glass of coke when poured. Chocolate? Couldn’t find it anywhere. Very low carbonation, almost totally flat. Quite bitter aftertaste. Bought 4 bottles of it to try and now have 3 bottles I dont want. An awful experience and very disappointed. Good point was the price, only £1.80 per bottle.

caramel, chocolate, coffee, roasty, butterscotch, black, cloudy, minimal head, medium sweetness, very bitter, full body, creamy, soft carbonation, long finish,

Chocolatey, a bit thin, but nice chocolately brew. A touch sour. Not superbly rounded.

50cl bottle @ Bull and Castle, Dublin. Brune claire, col blanc. Arôme houblonné avec trop de note citronnée et herbeuses de houblons qui cachent la plupart du profile de cette stout. Rappelle le chardon. En bouche, une expérience similaire à l’arôme, je trouve dommage que cette bière soit si houblonnée, pour un résultat mitigé, avec un bon profile citron-houblon ainsi que du chocolat qui reste bien trop en retrait. J’aurai plus pensé à une ESB au lieu de stout. Sur la fin je note plus le chocolat qui commence à se faire présent. Bière reste légère en bouche et privilège trop l’amertume du houblon.

Cask. The Pub, Leicester. Thin tan head, black body. Chocolate, grass, irony, roastiness. Sour tanginess.