Azalea Coast Teachs Chocolate Stout

Brewed by Azalea Coast Brewing Company
Style: Stout
Wilmington, North Carolina USA

Bottle; poured a dark brown with auburn hints; basically no head. KieferUGA and I thought it might be a bad bottle after initially trying it; it was that off. Aroma was astringent with some oats and chocolate. Flavor tasted infected; sourt and tart with only minimal amounts of chocolate and/or stout elements. Palate was watery and thin. I hope that they have bottling issues; and that this wasn’t their intention.

Bomber. Thanks to TURDFERGUSON for answering my call for local stouts! Pours clear dark brown with a lacy off-white head. Chocolate nose with the slightest hint of pine. Light watery body and medium-light carbonation. The taste is mostly fruit with a hint of coffee. Nondescript sour finish.

Gotta tell you Azalea, this is the most craptastic stout I’ve ever had - a completely disappointing mess. I can get a hell of a lot more chocolate out of my homebrewed porter, and I don’t need to add Hershy’s Cocoa Powder. In a blind tasting, I would have said this is an infected brown ale that could use more hops, body and carbonation.

Starts out fine enough, pours a black brown, light head in color and thickness. If you could just look at it, this would be a fine stout. Don’t drink it! Imagine leaving about a quarter cup of cheap merlot sitting out for about 3 days and mixing it with a can of Guiness. Agree with the hint of cranberry in some of the other reviews, bitter/sour throughout and through the finish. I thought it was horrible, would have been better off spending the 6 bucks on a sixer of miller light. The bottle does look cool in the collection though. Charlotte Octoberfest 2008, Azalea Coast was there. They were offering a porter that was nearly identical to this. It was improved a little, maybe worth a 1.9 now. If they keep improving at this rate, should be drinkable in about 5 years.

Looks like coke in the glass with a decent head. Thin, watery body with a sweet chocolate and coffee aroma and flavor. Bitter bite on finish.

Bomber. Has a dark ruby color in the lamp with a soapy, small head. The nose has hints of raisins, chocolate, coffee, and noticeable diacetyl. Wow. This stuff is really flat on the palate. Almost no chocolate or roasty flavor is evident. I get a weird cranberry type flavor with some corn maybe. This is really disappointing. Blind, I don’t think I could even identify this as a stout. I need to follow this one up with something more fulfilling.

The bottle is totally sweet with a label that looks like a treasure map and a grinning pirate with a braided beard. Arrrh, matey! I bought the bottle for the label. Let’s see how the beer is. Pours a dark brown that isn’t quite "stout black". In fact, it is almost translucent. Not normal for a stout. The head is a light tan, very thin, and recedes almost immediately. The aroma is pretty week with hints of barley, a touch of cocoa. Now for a taste...... ARRRRH! What be-ith this swill? Methinks someone poisoned me drink! The flavor is rather unmemorable with a sour bitterness that reminds me of cough syrup and maybe a hint of the Hershey cocoa powder. The mouthfeel is fairly thin. At least the ABV is high. I would suggest passing on this until they start melting down REAL chocolate for the boil and using some dark grain.

22oz bottle courtesy of ucusty. Mild coco aroma along with some wet coffee grounds. Some metalic aroma also. Black body with tan fizzy head. Flavor had a carbination cola to it that seemed to be oerpowering a sweet chocolate flavor that was trying to get your attention. Some coffee flavor as well. Had the aromas of a stout but tasted like a porter to me. Decent brew.

Tasted no choclate notes, barely even tasted like a stout and offered no full mouth feel. I love NC beers but this was a disappointing stout