Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout

Brewed by Brooklyn Brewery
Style: Imperial Stout
Brooklyn, New York USA

12oz bottle poured into a tulip glass produced a thick brown head with black body. Aroma and tast of bittersweet chocolate, toasted malts, and molasses. Not as sweet as I expected but an enjoyable seasonal ale.

(12 ounce bottle) Pours a opaque black beer, with a thick head. Tastes of dark choclate, coffee and maybe even cherries. Rich creamy mouthfeel and full bodied.

12-oz bottle Marcello’s Lafayette, LA - Aroma: anise, chocolate, roasted, malty, (malt), hops, raisin-, plume-like dark fruit, and alcohol; Appearance: obsidian black, opaque, tan to brown head, nice laces; Flavor: sweet, salty, chocolate, dark fruit, roasted, coffee (malt), bitter (hop), alcohol, dry finish; Mouthfeel: dry, medium carbonation, velvet texture, smooth warmth alcohol; Overall: rich, complex, big, dark beer with a nice aroma, mouthfeel, and taste of chocolate, roasted, and alcohol. Would be great with some nice cold and fresh oysters or desert beer (bread pudding with rum sauce, raspberry cheese cake).

Bottle: Pours a deep black opaque black with a massive cola colored meringue cap that stays the duration of the drink, lacing up the glass so you cant see through it. Aroma is complex, cocoa, coffe, dark dried fruits,licorice, dates and a whiff of fusel. Rich creamy mouth feel, big bodied, Front side is dominated by cocoa bundt cake malts with some dried fruit and burnt treacle tones, mid palate the tastes change as they dry out ( tobacco, resinous and medicinal hops), and attains a bitter-chocolate character. Finish goes dry and bitter with charred husk astringence with a licorice under tone. Warming but alcohol is evident. This is an intense world class big stout with a decent complexity and pleasin cocoa character, I’d rate it nearer ’5’ if it were not for the fact it does not hide it’s alcohol well in the finish and the aroma. I will put a few in the cellar for tasting in a year or so to see if this great stout hides the alcohol better..

Poured a jet black with a tan head. Aroma is of chocolate, cinnamon, toffee, caramel and spice. Taste starts off with a caramel sweetness, moves onto a roasted chocolate and toasted grain and finishes off with the impact of the 10% ABV. Palate is dominated by the alcohol but it is not unpleasant. Overall, a very delicious stout.

A dark black beer with a small tan head & even though I like the name & it is fitting for the style I do not smell or taste chocolate anywhere in this beer. The aroma is roasted , alcohol,& dark fruits. The taste is the same as the aroma with some coffee & nuttiness. This is a very fruity Imp. Stout that I’m guessing comes from the hops.

On tap at Delaney’s (New Haven, CT): Poured so dark the lights went dim. Thin tan head. Bitter dark chocolate, coffee beans, toffee candies. Less smoke than other stouts, but still leaves the palatte chalky. A typical sweet stout. Full-bodied and chewy. Drinkability: Solid, full, smooth. Bomber. Rebuy: Yes. #207 on 21112009, DG.

2009-2010 12 oz Bottle -- Pours black with a dark tan head. Aromas of roasted malts, chocolate, banana, alcohol, and some herbaceousness. moderate sweetness upfront and a good bitterness on the back-end backed by a deep, dark, and sour chocolate finish. Nice thick and heavy on the palate. The alcohol was very present and rough at first but smoothed out after a few minutes. Hopefully this will die down with age.