Grado Plato Chocarrubica

Bottle from Holiday. Black with a fizzy tan head. Sweet fruit jelly aroma. Mild chocolate fruit and caramel taste.

(Bottle) Pours almost black. The aroma is of sweet dark berries, dark fruits, violet, chocolate and tiny caramel notes with some jam sweetness in the background. The flavour is sweet with tones of liquorice, violets, blackberry jam and dark bread. Salty finish. The mouthfeel is soft and tiny dry. Medium bodied.

Bottle (GBBF 2008) - Dark brown in colour and slightly hazy due to the yeast sediment. Chocolatey and slightly tart aroma. Chocolate and some dried fruits in the taste such as raisins and sultanas. Not bad but could get a bit sickly after a while I think.

(6/29/08) Bottle sample at RBESG08 grand tasting in Plzen. Dark brown-black color with a brown head. Aroma is full of dark chocolate and some carob. Flavor has some roastiness, cocoa and hints of carob. Medium to full-bodied, quite syrupy. Decent.

There are some really interesting things coming out of Italy these days. This ranks up there in the interesting category. Draft, Capital Ale House Innsbrook. Pours a pitch black with a creamy, compact head. Aroma is chocolate, faint coffee, and very faint sour cherry and anise. Flavor is lots of chocolate, an odd but intentional medicinal note, faint coffee, and faint dark fruit, with an almost vinuous, winey note as well on the finish. Very smooth mouthfeel, probably a result of the crazy high levels of oats present here. Very interesting, sipping, chocolate oatmeal stout.

Bottled @ RBESG Grand Tasting 2008. Hazy and amber coloured with a medium sized head. I found this a bot strange and unbalanced - heavy notes of liqourice.

scura schiuma media persistente . note di cioccolato cereale carrube caffe liquore cappuccino. in bocca piuttosto complessa tostato caffe cacao leggero liquore buon corpo aromi intensi piuttosto definiti di sicuro non facile a bersi fa molto interessante

I think this was the last beer at a very hazy beer sampling night at the ginger mans. Have to admit, no notes for this. I remember this being a bit tarty and fruity. Massive sweet finish if I remember correctly (which I seriously think is very doubtful)