Daleside Chocolate Stout

Brewed by Daleside
Style: Stout
Harrogate, England

Serve in English pint

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From the Bottle at Tom’s Ultimate Glasgow Tasting, Blackfriars 01/12/2007 Chocolate aroma. Small white head. Dark coloured and slightly roasted with some bitterness in a crisp finish.

April 2007: Brown 500ml bottle, purple label, can’t find a best before date on the bottle. Poured into a Frankenheim Alt glass twice. If there is a darker beer out there, I haven’t seen it, dense and black, with a small bubbled rich light brown foaming head. Very strong burnt malt aroma, dark chocolate and treacle smells add to the malt, which gives the beer an over cooked chocolate cake aroma. This beer is what it claims it is, a smooth and creamy Chocolate Stout. This is what lets the beer down a little, it is watery for such a heavy looking and smelling stout. I enjoyed this beer, a pity about the mouthfeel, but drank with some Belgian chocolates made with beer (as bought at the Zythos fest), which I did with the second bottle, it stood up very well.

[Daleside Brewery, Harrogate] Pours dark brown with a yellowish head. Nose has some faint chocolate and a bitterness. On the taste - chocolate malt hints only, not as chocolatey as others I’ve had in the past. Quite light in alcohol so taste is pretty thin, some coffee in the aftertaste, which finishes quite smooth. I don’t think the three malts are that well balanced – and it’s just not that chocolatey [04092008]

Dark black in colour with thin creamy toffee coloured head. Chemical/hop aroma. Bitter chocolate flavour with shortsour finish

50cl bottle, local store. very dark color, beige head. chocolate aroma, quite sweet and smooth.

bottle 500 ml from S-market summer season saleEXP 30 09 09 murky black beige head lacing tickling carbonation dark roasted malts bitterness and sourness in aftertaste. Dash of dark chocolate or over aged bottle with wild yeast? Mouthfeel turns more Belgium than UK. Dry end I might give this second change

Bottle, purchased at Meenan’s in Dunedin. Pours a rich looking near-black with a very dense thick tan head that displays excellent retention and generates thick beautiful lace. Very fudgy aroma. Flavours of chocolate liqueur and underlying coffee. Sweet with a mildly bitter finish. Mouthfeel is incredibly silky and perfectly carbonated. Remarkable flavour and structure for a lower ABV beer. I thought this was much better than the majority of ratings I see here!

sour and very light ike it was watered down. too light chocolate flavor. too carbonated. bad

500 ml bottle. Aroma has roasted malt in it, maybe some fruity hoppiness too. The chocolade is not present. Taste is roasted and bitter. Not choko here either. Little bit too carbonated.

Bottle. Dark reddish brown with a creamy tan head. Roasted malt aroma with a hint of chocolate. The flavour is roasted, smoked malt, maybe a hint of chocolate and some bitterness. Quite smooth and tasty.