Goose Island Cocoa Leche

Brewed by Goose Island Beer Company (Brewpubs)
Style: Sweet Stout
Chicago, Illinois USA

Serve in English pint

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Sampled from the tap at the Clyborn location. Pours black with a light brown head that dissipates completely. Aroma has a very creamy sweet chocolate with a dark grain backing. Flavor has sweet chocolate with a bit of of backing roasted malt.

On tap at Clybourn brewpub. Pours really dark brown with tan head. Aromas of roasted malt and chocolate. Flavors are all roasted malt and chocolate. Body is a little thin. Based on prior ratings this may of fell short of previous batches.

Flight at GI Light phenol nose. Brown black with a beige head. Sweet stout flavors. Clean a little too sweet  6/3/6/3/13

Draft at Clybourn. Dark sepia with a puffy white head, eventually evaporates. Nose is muted, pepper and bubblegum with licorice and faint chocolate. Flavor improves, very dry chocolate with a bit of of licorice and moderately spicy roast dryness through the finish. Quite sticky but nicely dry, if too estery.

It was a chocolate milk of a beer. Extraordinarily filling and delicious, desert-like, as if chocolate ice cream had melted and fermented into a beer reincarnation. A small glass was tasty, but anything more may have been a bit much, given how filling it was.

This poured a dark brown color with a tan head. Aroma was chocolate, light roast, some lactose, and brownies. Flavor was sweet chocolate, brownies again, sugary, and some light bittering hops.

On tap at GI (Clybourn). Dark brown/black pour with a tan head. Dark roasted malt and chocolate nose. Sweet with lots of lactose?, chocolate, and roasted malt flavors..

draft... medium brown, amber fringe, expected more out of the head... the aroma is an average generic milk stout, bitter chocolate and lots of lactose... taste is more bitter than anything, doesn’t really fit the style but easy to drink... above average

Flight serving on tap at the Clybourn Brewpub (Chicago, IL). Pours a near pitchblack opaque pour, dark and ominous with some brownish elements on the edges and bottom. A small frothy tannish head dies to a small layer, laces small, yet stays solid. Aromas are roasty and sweet, preaching some cocoa and coffee, earthy roasted malts mixing into gentle milk sugar, vanilla and creamy. More roast slanted with some gentle sweetness. A bit acrid. Initial is medium bodied, perhaps the heavier end. Preaching some roast and toast up front, coffee and some cocoa. Middle immediately moves into candy bar: bakers chocolate meets creamy sweet milk sugar, some toast and gentle sweet decadent chocolate. Though this doesn’t stick, the beer completing it journey with a roasty and dry finish, some touches of caramel and milk chocolate mix in, but a sufficient roast comes back into the fold, drying out with earth, coffee, and toast. An interesting and well made beer, running a journey. Roast and sweetness work well here. I can’t say this is my favorite style, but this is a well made version of it. Completing a journey, pretty balanced. Nice job. Gets a bit sweet at moments with the candybar bite feel, but it’s all good.

Chocolate Milk Stout http://www.ratebeer.com/ beer/goose-island-chocolate-milk-stout/119777/ for a Hispanic audience?