Grado Plato Chocarrubica

Appearance: Grado Plato’s Chupacabra opens with a hiss and blood-curdling screech of carbonation. It pours out a dark brown, near black body with a thinnish, fizzy, beige-colored head on top. Smell: Sour, rubbery scent of darkened malts, stale nuts, and grapes flecked with horse-made fertilizer. This does not bode well. I’ve gone looking for the elusive Chupacabra and found only despair. Taste: Curious mix of chocolate, walnut shells, and tree bark with a middle sweetness. I had to grab onto the bar with both hands to ride out the incredible jolt of tart sourness that followed. Taste of rubber. Thin fruitiness and some dark malts, but it’s hard not to focus on all the foul flavors. Gack! Grado Plato’s Chupacabra has ruthlessly shredded my patience like so much unsuspecting cattle. Mouthfeel: Medium-plus body. Medium-high carbonation. Drinkability: A pretty poor product, I must say. Not recommended whatsoever. Ah well, that’s what I get for messing with Chupacabra. I should’ve known better. You can’t drain the blood of sheep unless you suck really hard.

Very dark brown with a small beige head. Aroma is fruity with plum and pinapple. It also has some chocolate and a little sourness. Taste is sweet with note of chocolate, fruit and nuts.

Date: January 03, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party
Appearance: dark brown, wispy beige head, dripy lace
Aroma: sweet spicy chocolate aroma
Flavor: rich chocolare flavor, earthy tartness and bitterness take over and hides what should be there
Overall: not a good sample
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 2/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 5/20
Rating: 2/5.0
Drinkability: 3/10
Score: 4

Bottle. Dark brown with a beige head. Aromas are malty with chocolate and coffee. Spicy and herbal with some alcohol. Flavours are chocolate malts with berries. Spicy with warming alcohol. A touch on the gritty side but still decent.

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Bottled. A hazy dark brown beer with a beige head. The aroma is sweet malty with notes of roasted malt, while the flavor is sweet malty with strong notes of alcohol.

Boy aint this a weird beer. Poured a dark dark brown, very near opaque. Moderate foamy head. Aroma is plenty weird, notes of soy sauce, meat, molasses, maple liquer, we are talking SATB territory here. Mercifully the flavor is different with a def bitter chocolate tone dominating the affair. Medium bodied, overall sweet profile with a chocolate and caramel finish. Light herbal character rises in the finish too. Fairly smooth and rounded mouthfeel, pretty easy drinking for an odd duck.

On tap at Salone del Gusto 2008. Very dark brown, small beige head. Nice chocolate aroma. Chocolate, coffee and vanilla flavours. Highly enjoyable.