Saltaire Triple Chocoholic

Brewed by Saltaire
Style: Stout
Shipley, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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Bottle at home. Black color, light brown head. Aroma is strong coffee, chocolate and roasted malts. Medium body, chocolate, coffee. Little lacking body, but very nice for low alc.

50 cl bottle.
Pours dark brown color with a large off-white head. Aroma of dry chocolate, faint ashy notes, cocoa, dark malts, some honey and vanilla. Flavor of vanilla, chocolate, dark malts, cocoa and dark fruit notes. Surprisingly good. Somewhat watery though but still very nice.
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500 ml bottle.
Pours a black colour with a creamy off-white head. Aroma is rather strong with dry wood, biscuit, malts and chocolate. Flavour of roasted malts, cream, tiramisu, dark chocolate, grassy hops and coffee. Medium bodied, slick mouthfeel and a strong, roasty, bitter and chocolate finish. What a surprise. Really well balanced and a rather heavy stuff for a 4.8% ABV beer.

50 cl bottle @ home, BBE 12/2013
Aroma is rather nice with lots of semi‐dark chocolate, cocoa, some coffee, cereal, hints of hay and vanilla. Flavour has dark chocolate, some ash and coffee notes. Very nice stuff for this ABV. The finish is too strong on hops though.

Thanks to my brother Brendan for the bottle. Appearance: Jet black, motor oil, thin but lasting mocha head. Aroma: metallic malt, making way for a ton of rich milk chocolate, a little leather and smoke, overall very rich (with the underlying copper/metallicness) quite nice. Flavour: Milky mouthfeel with a zingy metallic flavour, it immediately mellows out to a smooth mochachino, smoky with a lovely cocoa finish. Lovely.

Cask at The Stanhope on Gloucester Road/London. Pours very dark brown with a tan head and orange? glints. Strong chocolate aroma. Med body. It’s really, really smooth and the flavor is not very bitter chocolate. Delicious. Dessert ale!

Black beer with a thin foamy off-white head. Aroma is mostley chocolate and a tiny hint of brea. Taste is chocolate and a tiny hint of coffee. Essentially tastes like a chocolate milkshake - tastes good but not neccessarily what I want in a beer.

Cask,hand pulled at Waggon & Horses,Halesowen.31st march.Good looking black pour with a nice lasting,medium sized beige head.Aromas of chocolate and coffee right away.Chocolate,coffee and chocolate syrup flavours with some vanilla in evidence.Nice roast finish with more chocolate making this a tasty brew.

50 cl. Bottle split @ Delirium Hoppy Loft. Pours blackish – bit hard to see with the lighting here – with a creamy big bubbly mocha head. Nose reminds me of Rogue Double Chocolate, lots of sweet chocolate syrup, cheaper but yummy chocolates, creamy coffee,… Smell beets taste which is a bit more tuned down / mellower less thick chocolate syrup still dominates, lighter grass bitter flourishes in the back, UK hops, cheaper sweet chocolate, light malts, touch fudge and saccharine,… Lighter body but still quite syrupy for the ABV. Not much surprise that they used chocolate syrup in here which for me in this case feels a bit like a shortcut but I do like the taste so…

Bottle at bar. Black color, beige head. Sweet taste with chocolate, roasted malts, coffee, vanilla and nuts. Smooth malty body. Roasty finish with chocolate and vanilla. Very nice brew.