Fort Collins Double Chocolate Stout

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

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Tap @ grand tour of Fort Collins breweries and bars with Aaron and Armin, Thanks !! This one at Fort Collins taproom. Pours black with a creamy tan head. Aroma of malt, rich dark chocolate, notes of fruit. taste is malts, both milk and dark chocolate, cherry notes. Medium body, soft carbonation. 250212

a solid entry from Fort Collins. dark roasted grains with a cocoa backbone and a warming alcohol with no astringency. lots of toffee, some coffee, some milkiness and rye bread in there too, but not too heavy. really well done.

Pours a deep black-brown with a thin light brown head. Chocolatey malt aroma with coffee undertones. More bitter than the regular stout.

Nitro pour from 12th South Tap room Nashville, TN. WOW! Creamy, thick, Chocolatey, toasty, roasty, yes this beer strikes a perfect harmony for me in what I’m looking for in a chocolate Stout! I’m not afraid to rate a perfect beer and neither should you! This must be on your bucket list of beers to try before you die!

Dark rich pitch black color. Tan head worth outstanding lacing. Coffee, chocolate, in the nose and flavor...love this roasted brew.

UPDATED: MAR 1, 2013 incensed malty chocolate aroma smell of fresh chocolate grain. Slight bitter dark roast flavor. Thin head. Great overall not perfect chocolate balance close to awesome but just close.

Bottle share at WOB in West Palm. Dark brown/black pour with a tan head. Roasted malt and bakers chocolate aromas. Nice mouthfeel, medium body. Dark roasted malt, bitter chocolate, and expresso notes..

220z bottle. Pours a dark black with medium tan head and nice splatter lacing. Smell is sweet milk chocolate, heavy maltiness, some vanilla. Taste is smooth, creamy milk chocolate, mild bitter cocoa nibs, light coffee notes and lite roasted malts. Creamy mouthfeel. This is a fantastic beer.

16 ounce pint - Taco Mac in Kennesaw, Georgia.

Appearance: Served up a matte black body with a finger of pillowed, ecru foam. Sheet-inducing, coating lace on the descent.

Smell: Moderately sweetish scent of caramel, chocolate, and roast -- it seems less coarse, roastwise, than I recall it being in previous years. Little hints of fruit, little hints of the alcohol within.

Taste: A sweet flavor of caramel paired with roasted, coffee-accented malts, almost ahead of the chocolate quality. Roasty astringency, but there’s a moderate hop bitterness in there as well. Small hint of fruitiness underneath the maltiness. Semi-sweet, chocolaty (though not necessarily semi-sweet chocolate) finish.

Mouthfeel: Medium-plus body. Medium carbonation. Smooth mouthfeel.

Overall: Doesn’t have the Mister Wonka confectionery quality of a Rogue Double Chocolate or Southern Tier Choklat and is more akin to a Brooklyn Chocolate Stout, particularly as there’s no actual chocolate used. I liked it well enough and like the aforementioned stouts as well, so, it’s really just up to what you want: candy bars or no candy bars.

Tasted on 12/22/11 from a capped 650mL bomber bottle purchased at Binny’s Lincoln Park. Pours a nearly black, dark brown with a thick, rocky tan head that slowly recedes to rocky lace, leaving some lace residue along the inside of the glass. The nose is deep and roasted with tons of chocolate ranging from sweet milk to bitter dark, along with some underlying mocha coffee. The flavor is the same, with tons of milk and dark chocolate, a lightly nutty note, and some mocha coffee bitterness. The body is full and creamy with light, very smooth carbonation, and a long milk and dark chocolate, somewhat bitter mocha, and lightly nutty finish.