Grado Plato Chocarrubica

Brewed by Birrificio Grado Plato
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Chieri (TO), Italy

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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(Bottle, 0.75 l, at HBF2010) Poured black with medium sized and light brown head. Aroma contained cocoa, roastedness and carob fruits. Palate was full bodied with medium carbonation. Flavours were chocolate, malts, roastedness, ash, hops and bitterness. Aftertaste contained chocolate and bitterness.

(Bottled, 0.75l) Dark reddish brown with a small head. Aroma of anise, some alcohol, and caramely malt. Roasted-malty flavor with anise and herbs. Medium body, soft carbonation, warming palate. A nicely spicy, lightly warming and decently balanced brew.

Bottle from Smith’s. This one poured dark brown with minimal tan head. The nose is dark malty, with dark choc, some brown sugar and cherry tartness, plus some lactic elements. The taste is primarily dark malty, with brown sugar notes, some tart cherry, lactic, slight rauch and earthy woody notes. Unique and flavorful, this one may be a tad better if it picked a side of the fence between a chocolate stout and sour.

damn, another gusher. Had one other of this brewery’s beer tonight and it was a gusher too. I hate being covered in beer and wiping beer off of everything. Poured with a foamy head (!) and some lace. color is an opaque black. Aroma is slightly tart malty dark ripe fruit earth leather and actually not that great. Maybe I’m just pissed. Finsih is not like oatmeal stout; in fact very little other than color is like oatmeal stout in this beer. I quit.

6th beer of the Italian Beer Tasting at Finalmente in Sleepy Hollow, NY. Pours dark brown, tastes of chocolate and earthiness. its dry and roasted, nothing special. but enjoyable enough.

bott. fiera rimini.anche questa è una birra spettacolare,anche se non è il mio genere,devo riconoscere che il mastro ha fatto proprio un bel lavoro. un aroma pieno e avvolgente di cacao carammello e frutta arabica.al gusto sei investito da note di cioccolato carruba e datteri.persitente,equlibrata.il suo difetto per me è solo che è troppo piena di sentori,sembra di mangiare.

(bottle - 500 ml swingtop) Dark brown with a rocky tan head. Aroma has a lot of funky wood and sour notes mixing with some very subtle cocoa and roasted malt. Flavor is almost like a very nice dark sour ale. The dryness of the malt and the bitterness from what I suspect is the carob come through under all of the earthy and damp tastes. Not bad. Definitely interesting.

Pours dark reddish with a tan head. Plum flavor? Some kind of fruit is there....with a fairly hard alcohol taste. Not smooth enough, and the chocolate is weak. Not very good, really. I can’t recommend this one.

My bottle [750ml] shared with HogTownHarry, garthicus, GregClow, jerc & mabel -- c/o madmitch76. Pours a dark ruby-brown with a large creamy/frothy tan head. Aroma: What th’?! Poop!? It’s hard to get past that odour. Other then that there’s some light roastness, cocoa, yeast, light spices and light green hops. Mostly poop though. Flavour’s much better, almost no sign of poo: Dry roasted malt, Belgian yeast, cocoa, light green hops and a hint of spices. Average to medium bodied. An odd beer, quite different to say the least.

Thanks to Blankboy for sharing. Appearance: Pitch black, creamy yellow head. All in order so far. Aroma: Carrots, spice, shit/poop/crap, sour and some cheap chocolate, the kind of crappy chocolate in shitty advent calenders/ Flavour: Like licking old cooking/baking chocolate, wet cardboard too, oh and some sweat, just for the fun of it I guess. This beer makes me sad.