Deep Ellum Cherry Chocolate Double Brown Stout

Brewed by Deep Ellum Brewing Company
Style: Baltic Porter
Dallas, Texas USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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UPDATED: FEB 13, 2012 (22oz bomber) deep brown with hints of ruby, unfiltered and creamy long lasting dark tan head that’s very finely bubbled. This beer looks how a beer should, cloudy, rich, and exceptional lacing. Nose of cocoa, roast, cherry juice, and cream. Taste has tons of cherry, cream, cola root, and ridiculous amounts of cocoa nibs. Very chocolaty and as far as the "cocoa nibs" taste, this beer has more of it than any I’ve probably ever tasted. The body is creamy and has a great linger with a cola-like carbonation. Really nicely done.

Poured at the Big Texas Beer Festival. Dark pour with a brown head. Aroma is roasted, lots of dark chocolate, and a little fruit. Taste is hot cocoa, cherry, ash, and bitter coffee.

Tap at BTBF. Pours dark brown with a dense tan head. Aroma is roasty, cocoa, and tobacco. Taste had a lot of tart cherry and dark chocolate. Pretty good.

Bottle via a trade with ericandersnavy. Pours with a black body and a large tan head. Aromas are of medium roast, earthy, tobacco, cocoa nubs, cherry, dark fruit, vanilla, clean yeast wise. Flavors are of vanilla, cocoa, earthy, cherry skins, tannins, nice toasted malt component, candied cherries, dusty and clean. Medium bubbles, somewhat dry for what I expected, medium alcohol presence.

(Draught) Pours a dark brown body with a spare tan head. Aroma of chocolate, caramel, and cherry. Flavor of chocolate, nougat, roasted malt, cherry, and nuts with a displeasing candish finish.

Interesting take on a Baltic Porter, the chocolate is nicely pronounced and the cherry is a very high note that is nicely refreshing.

on tap at the holy Grail) Pour is dark brown with tan head..Nose is chocolate malts, toffee, light cherry, and nuts..Taste is nutty, vanilla,sweet cherry, and chocolate..Palate is warm with a light bitterness and chocolate finish..

Yes, this beer passes. Its deep brown in color but may have a cherry tint when held to the light if you use your imagination. The head is a small, dirty ring. The aroma is mild and choclately. The taste is cherry first, balanced beer (malty sweetness, and hoppy bitterness), and chocolate last. It draws down clean and leaves no lacing on the glass. Its a good enough beer to pour a second half pint, in spite of the adjuncts; it doesn’t fall into the desert beer category. There’s just too much good beer taste stomping on the cherry and the chocolate.

On tap at the Holy Grail Pub in Plano. The beer pours a reddish-brown color with a tan head. The aroma has a lot of strong hot chocolate notes with not too much else coming through. While the cherries are absent in the aroma, they are up front in the flavor. There is a little bit of chocolate in the aroma, but overall I think the beer tastes a little bit medicinal. The body a little bit thinner than I like and the carbonation is about medium. Overall, the beer was not bad but was a little disappointing. I think this is a step down from the regular Double Brown Stout.

Tap...black pour with a thin khaki head. Nose is chocolate, faint sweetness, roasted malts, and more chocolate. Smooth on the palate, cherry is there but very faintly, heavy roasted malts, chocolate, and a bitter cocoa finish.

On tap, black color pour with thick tan. Ilkdhake foam, aroma is roasty, vinous , chocolate, flavor is really nice red velvet cake, chocolate, roast ,malt, silky finish