Samuel Adams Chocolate Bock

	Percentile
	89
	overall

Brewed by Boston Beer Company
Style: Dunkler Bock
Boston, Massachusetts USA

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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Ratings	Average	Score	Seasonal	ABV	Style Pctl	Serve in
692	3.54/5.0	3.53/5.0	Special	5.5%	95.9	Dimpled mug, Snifter

Commercial Description:
Samuel Adams® partnered with Scharffen Berger Chocolate to develop their newest innovation, Samuel Adams® Chocolate Bock. Tettnang Tettnanger and Spalt hops were hand-selected from the world's oldest growing area and combined with a complex selection of malts including two row Pale, Munich and caramel to create a rich and satisfying brew. This dark beer has a big, malty character that is combined with the subtle sweetness of chocolate. The chocolatiers at Scharffen Berger crafted an exclusive blend of chocolate for Samuel Adams® made with cocoa beans from Ghana called forastero. Samuel Adams® Chocolate Bock was aged on a bed of this chocolate to create its unique layers of flavor. As the beer matured, the fruity, tart, earthy and chocolate aromas were infused into the liquid to give the brew a complex, full-bodied taste with a velvety finish. A hint of vanilla was added to meld the symphony of flavors together. Due to legal restrictions, Samuel Adams® Chocolate Bock can not be sold in the states of Alabama, Louisiana, and Utah.

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jzzbassman (846), New Albany, Mississippi, USA

3.8	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.8	8/10	3/5	8/10	3/5	16/20

Oct 24, 2009

Pours clear dark chocolate with a light brown head. Very sweet aroma of cocoa and Mexican vanilla. Flavor is heavy to the chocolate, with a nice malt profile. Could you warm this and put marshmallows in it?

alobar (1017), Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA

3.8	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.8	7/10	3/5	8/10	4/5	16/20

Oct 18, 2009

Outstanding! Dark brown color. No head. Aroma of chocolate and malt. Smooth and creamy. Flavor of chocolate milk.

richlikebeer (832), Easton, Pennsylvania, USA

3.7	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.7	7/10	3/5	8/10	3/5	16/20

Oct 18, 2009

Awesome flavor. Essentially a chocolate milk stout. Smooth aned creamy mouthfeel

BeerGestapo (740), Windsor, Pennsylvania, USA

2.7	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
2.7	5/10	3/5	6/10	1/5	12/20

Oct 9, 2009

Brewed in the USA... Pours a deep brown color with ruby highlights and a small off hite hea. Aroma of cocoa powder, caramel and malts. Taste of vanilla beans, cocoa powder, malts and dark fruits. Mouthfeel is thin in body with a slightly sweet malty finish. The first thing i woud like to say is they need to remove the chocolate from the label. 2nd, not sure why this was an award winner? But on a positive note the bottle is pretty cool........ :)

Svesse (2613), Hässelby, Sweden

3.5	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.5	7/10	4/5	7/10	3/5	14/20

Oct 9, 2009

(Bottle) Very dark brown colour with ruby hints when seen through light. Creamy, beige head. Malty nose with notes of chocolate, cocoa, dark rye bread, dark fruit and roasted grain. Malty taste with dark bread, dark fruit, chocolate and cocoa. A bit roasted. Starts dry, but turns sweeter towards the finish. Fairly low bitterness. Medium body, slightly spritzy mouthfeel. Well balanced and tasty beer. Nice.

yemenmocha (354), Glendale, Arizona, USA

3.8	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.8	6/10	5/5	8/10	4/5	15/20

Sep 18, 2009

Pours very dark brown, not quite black, with nice medium brown head. Nose has a pleasant nougat-like chocolate component, somewhat reminding me of Young’s double chocolate stout, but more tamed. Palate is a great balance of chocolate, roasty sweet malts, and hops to round it out. Nice chocolate presence without being overwhelming. Good balance. Very drinkable.

beerfairy (7), Chicago, Illinois, USA
does not count

3.9	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
3.9	6/10	3/5	10/10	5/5	15/20

Sep 17, 2009

let me start by saying I like this beer. I’m leary about things like chocolate in beer, it just sounds like two things that wouldn’t go together but this one works. It pours almost a dark black with a small head. The chocolate flavor is so smooth, almost milky. Wonder what kind of chocolate they use. It’s refreshing and different. If you like chocolate and beer, give this one a try.

awiseman01 (352), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

4.1	Aroma	Appearance	Flavor	Palate	Overall
4.1	8/10	4/5	8/10	4/5	17/20

Sep 14, 2009

Bottle. Pours deep black with faint ruby edge and very faint bubbly off-white head. Nose is milk chocolate, roasted malt and coffee. Has a good sweet chocolate flavor with nice carbonation balance. Relatively smooth and a little bitter overall. ABV is unnoticeable in this one. As it warms it opens up a little more to reveal some tootsie roll and vanila creme soda. I was surprisingly pleased with this, has a very different mouthfeel than normal due to the odd carbonation mix. Worth trying once, but i would not pay the price again.

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