Fort Collins Chocolate Stout

Brewed by Fort Collins Brewery
Style: Stout
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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Not that impressed. Aroma was pretty good with notes of chocolate, faint coffee, and malt notes. Taste we very underwhelming with some sweetness, malt, faint chocolate and coffee. Finish is really watery and thin... would have liked a more body here... a lot more. The bitterness was good but with out the body...meh. Average.

12 ounce bottle
I’ve got no idea where this came from but a tick is a tick. Hiding in the fridge it must have been overshadowed by everything else. It’s not the worst beer in the world but after just a few sips I found myself so indifferent that about half was a drain pour.

Aroma / Appearance - The chocolately brown pour lived up to expectations. The bubbly ring of head, however, was a bit on the off side as it had this strange yellow tint. Coffee and slightly stale chocolate milk were mildly appealing at best.

Flavor / Palate - The taste of light bodied chocolate milk was meh. Coffee, probably Maxwells or something similar, did not help either. The sweet lingering mouthfeel made me want to reach for anything at all. It is far from the worst beer I have tried but being weak bodied and thin it is not good either.

Bottle. Pours a dark brown with a finger of light brown head. Settles in minutes with thin sheets and rings of lacing. Aroma is chocolate, cocoa, mild roasted malt, mild alcohol. Flavor is chocolate up, building slightly with a front fading into a sweet, mildly roasted finish. Quite mild and sweet throughout. Flavor could be bolder/stronger, ABV could be higher but it’s not necessary and I’m not sure this beer could mask much more alcohol as is. Soft carbonation, medium body, and smooth texture. A light chocolate stout, very drinkable, throw in some lactose and make it a sweet stout.

12 oz. bottle at Gordo’s. Pours a dark, pretty much opaque coffee brown with a small tan head. Notes of dark chocolate and roasted malts, toasted nuts, dry grains, and stale brownies. Light-medium bodied, with a dry, roasty mouthfeel and modest carbonation. Solid chocolate stout.

My second favorite from the Fort Collins lunchbox (the first being: Kidd Black Lager) this chocolate stout is slightly sweet with a seductive aroma, and though somewhat lacking in the chocolate flavor category, makes up for it with an excellent deep malty flavor with notes of coffee, molasses, and prominent hops. Smells just the way you think it would: like roasted dark chocolate. It pours dark with a very pronounced tan head which doesn’t last incredibly long, but leaves a nice lacing. The taste is very malty with a mild chocolate flavor to provide sweetness and a very bitter hoppy finish. It’s a bit too watery (which dampens its otherwise perfect mouth-feel) and I’d defiantly say the coffee flavor overpowers the chocolate, which in turn ends up getting overpowered by the hops as the taste finishes. This beer does a lot, maybe too much. I remember very much enjoying my first sip and then gradually becoming more and more underwhelmed as I continued drinking. Still, it’s a good stout for someone who isn’t looking for anything too sweet and enjoys a nice hop kick, like I do.

12 oz bottle pours black with a tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee and a hint of chocolate. Taste is nice malts, chocolate and coffee.

From a bottle, large light brown head, black opaque beer. Tonight of chocolate in aroma, reminds me mostly of baking chocolate. Light body for a stout, flavor is immediate dark chocolate, going into long cocoa finish with hints of anise. Overall fairly enjoyable, not necessarily what I look for in a stout.

Dark brown visual. Odour is sweet molasses. Tastes like molasses and roasted malt with a slight hop-chocolate finish. Pretty good stout with good MOUTH FEEL. Good first impression from Fort Collins.

Bottle poured a deep dark brown hue w/ a small lasting tan head and great lacing. Moderate aromas of cookie dough, molasses, and malt. Initial flavor is light sweet to a moderate bitter finish. Tastes are malt heavy, a nice roast level on the barley gives it a classic stout taste, a light lime citrus bite, and some molasses. Medium bodied, watery texture, lively carbonation, and a lasting malt flavor on the finish. This is a good beer. It suffers from it’s name "Chocolate" Stout. Sorry...way too many other stouts that nail the chocolate flavor. This beer does not. Had FCB called it "Malted" Stout, folks might rate it higher. Good beer, but not what it claims to be.

Bottle, pours a deep black with hefty amount of tan head. Taste is roatsed malts, chocolate, coffee, some sweetness. A bit watered down but still decent.