Rogue Double Chocolate Stout

Brewed by Rogue Ales
Style: Imperial Stout
Newport, Oregon USA

Serve in Snifter

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Flöska. Black cccolour, light brown head, creamish. Aroma is sweet and roasty malty with chocolate. Good mouthfeel. Flavour is sweet with roasted malt and plenty of chocolate. Bitter sweet. Sweet chocolate roasty bitter finish. Quite sweet.

Bottle faced at home. Pours a black abyss with a rich brown coffee like head an a strong lacing presence that binds to my glass. Aromatically a bit like a chocolate chip mint sundae. Minty and menthol like up front maybe serving temperature is a bit too chill. Sweet chocolate notes, almost whip cream like in its fluffy chocolate presentation. Marsh mellows, mint and chocolate, smells decadent. Soft chocolate body with a much lighter sweetness than is anticipated in the aromatics. Soft carbonation, and a softer body with an almost nitrous like velvet texture, though at times appears oily as well. Finish is even less sweet with a soft vanilla and a quick bitter coffee roastiness to impart on any true vanilla tone. A very solid offering and improvement on the original recipe.

pours an extreme black with a nice brown head. aroma is dark chocolates and dark fruits. woah... this is one fantastic tasting chocolate stout. packs a punch with the dark chocolate and some dark fruits thrown in. definately one of my favorite chocolate stouts.

In short: A bitter chocolate orgy. Very simple, yet very enjoyable.
How: Bottle 22oz, cool red bottle. Consumed when approximately 6 months of age. I’m assuming it was only brewed once and I have the first batch (6 months after the beer release)
The look: Black body topped by a medium tan head with medium retention
In long: Nose is… I’m giving you three guesses… think… think… you’ll never guess it… so I’ll tell you, the nose is like stuffing your nostrils with pieces of a black chocolate bar. Yep, that beer smells like an almost pure (85% cocoa) black chocolate bar. Who would have thought? Taste is… I mean what can you say about a beer like this. It does exactly what it is supposed to do. The Double Chocolate is simply a black chocolate orgy even though the body is not very thick and heavy. The roasted level is actually pretty high and that makes the beer feel dryer than it really is. Once again I think this is a very hoppy beer (this is Rogue after all) but here the hops bitterness gets lost in the black chocolate bitterness that is in fact very bitter. The next bottle of Rogue Double Chocolate I open I will do a side-by-side with a classic like Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout or maybe Southern Tier Choklat. With this bottle I did a side by side with their Rogue Double Mocha Porter and it was a waste of time as there was nothing to compare. And that’s a lot of beer to drink to make the comparisons. Too much beer? I don’t know. I took my beer drinking to another new level so from now on I will only listen to the Surgeon Admiral warnings.

Bottle provided by Alex at the WLV Pig Roast...A black beer with a light tan head. Not much retention, ok lacing....The aroma is mostly sweet chocolate with a hint of vanilla. Not balanced with any hops but it smells good...The taste brings out some balance to the sweetness with some nice roasty bitter coffee notes, the balanced brought however may swing the balance too far to the other spectrum as I wish more of the sweetness stayed. A ton of chocolate going on, just not very successfully, above average beer but don’t break the bank getting it.

Bottle @ private beer tasting, Denver. Thanks to Adnielsen. Pours black with a tan head. Aroma of chocolate, coffee, hard roasted malt. Taste is sweet milk chocolate, roasted malt, soy, vanilla. Medium body, low carbonation. 090311

Bottle at Papsø’s - Thanks. Black - offwhite head. Chocolate, cocoa, dry cocoa, cheap chocolate, toasted, sweetness, milk chocolate, O’boy powder, light bitterness, malty bitterness. Plain.

Bottled. Pitch black coloured. Small dense brown head. Aroma of sweetness, chocolate, vague roast. Flavour of chocolate, sweetness, vague roast, some coffee and vanilla. Medium bodied. Quite roasted and sweet end: vague bitter.

Bottled. A pitch black beer with a thin brown head. The aroma has notes of alcohol, roasted malt, and soy sauce. The flavor is sweet with notes of sweet and roated malt, caramel, and soy sauce, leading to a bitter hoppy and roasted finish.

Bottle at Papsø. Black coloured with a medium sized beige head. Sweet and roasted aroma of chocolate and caramel. Sweet and light roasted flavour of caramel and chocolate. Sweet and roasted finish. Too sweet.