DuClaw Naked Fish

Brewed by DuClaw Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Abingdon, Maryland USA

Serve in Flute

Dark brown pour with not much brown head. Fake raspberry juice water nose and flavor. Roasty and cocoa, but the fakeness of the rasperry water just isn’t doing it for me.

Pour was black with a thin tan head that dissipated quickly on both pours. The aroma was chocolate, roast, coffee, and raspberry. The flavor followed, nothing really surprising about this other than the fact that the raspberry wasn’t way overdone and the chocolate came across like a cocoa powder in the flavor. Mouthtfeel was only moderate for the style, carbonation a tad weak if anything. Not a bad variant of what it intended to be, just not all that great of a beer to go to. Not sure why I bought it.

22 oz bottle. Poured a dark, brown-ruby color, tan head. Aroma is... kind of weak. The beer may have been a bit too cold, as it warmed some notes started coming out. Flavor was another thing. Roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, raspberries. This was better than I expected and at 4.6% ABV, I was impressed it was as rich as it was. Good!

22 oz bottle served in a tulip. Pour is deep cola with two fingers of quickly dissipating kaki head. Nose is raspberries, semi-sweet chocolate, and roasted malt. Taste is roasted malt and chocolate up front that quickly subsides to let the semi-dry raspberries kick in and do their thing. The finish is a three way that lingers on in a slightly dry, yet still sweet fashion. The body is surprisingly light for chocolate stout. This is a nice beer, though nothing stellar, that is would make a solid staple beer to drink over and over. It is also quite sessionable.

Bottle. Deep, dark brown to near black pour with a short, fizzy brown head. Aroma is sweet with dark chocolate, berries, chocolate covered cherries, roasted malt and light coffee. Taste is sweet as well with more roasted malt, dark chocolate, berries and coffee notes. Light tartness from the raspberries and only soft bitterness from the coffee notes. Body is medium but with soft carbonation. Missing a bit more chewiness to it than I’d prefer but that’s is to expected for a 4.6% ABV session style stout. Ends with more raspberry and dark chocolate, light coffee, roasted malt and chocolate cake notes.

Bottle. Chocolate / coffee aroma. Black color, light tan head. Clear. Sweetness of the raspberry comes out with the taste. Good full body, a little creamy but not thick. Overall a nice stout, definitely sweet - dessert type.

Bottle. Pours black with a small tan head. Aroma is raspberry, chocolate, coffee. Flavor is sweet with coffee, raspberry, dark chocolate. A bit watery in the palate. Not bad, definitely a dessert beer.

Good beer. Looks like a glass of cola, with no lacing. Aroma is coffee and chocolate. Very little carbonation, slides across tongue, very thin. Leaves a nice raspberry aftertaste. Would be a nice desert beer.