Bison Organic Chocolate Stout

Brewed by Bison Brewing Company
Style: Stout
Berkeley, California USA

22 oz from Sam’s Wine and Spirits. Value has to go into this rating, b/c at $4, its a decent beer. Dark brown in color with a tan head. Strong nose of burnt chocolate and roast. Light bodied and a little fizzy with lots of chocolate and burnt flavors. A very drinkable and decent stout.

22oz bottle. thanks to holdenn for the sample. pours dark brown with small tan head. nose is very roasty, chocolate and coffee. flavor is a burnt cocoa, coffee, finishes sorta stale. mouthfeel is a tad to thin. a decent stout.

Bottle. Pour is dark brown, kinda syrupy as it pours and not much going on in terms of head or carbonation. A little bit of scummy looking small bubbles on the surface, but that’s it. Aromas are quite pleasant, of chocolate malt, with a bit of a smokey peat presence lingering in the background. That said, the smells are a little subtle. Flavor is heavy of roasted malt... the smoke/peat comes through strong, too. The cocoa is definitely present, but the other flavors seem to take center stage. Comes off as a bit watery/weak and doesn’t finish strong, which is a shame.

12oz Bottle Pours out a nice black topped with a great tan head. A nice aroma of roast and some chocolate. Not to bad.

From a 12 oz bottle this poured very dark back with big tan head and decent lacing. Not a real heavy mouthfeel and flaoors of chocolate and roasted malts. Finish is nice with a touch of citrus hops. This is not Rogue Chocolate Stout, but then what is. Very well done.

I really liked this stout. Kind of a sweet stout base, approaching a foreign. Strongly chocolatey and strangely refreshing. Went well with a burger and fries, so it was not too heavily bodied. Nutty, chocolatey, roasty, lightly fruity.

From a 22 oz. bomber bottle, a short blurb along the right side of label, no freshness date, sampled at cellar temperature in a pint glass. Poured a dark blackish stout brown with a foamy, bubbly topped tan head, decent retention, very minimal amount of sticking. Aromas of roasted chocolate malts, powdery cocoa, light cherry fruitiness and a hint of liquid smoke. Moderate carbonation and a watery body, bit of a letdown, softly crisp, dryish, thin medium bodied mouthfeel. Thin tasting, watery roasted malts that give off a cold coffee earthy bitterness, a light cocoa chocolate flavor, a watery fruitiness in the middle, once again, watery smoky nuttiness, and a dryish, malt bitter finish. For me, the nose was promising, then a disappointment after that, thin and watery are the two words that come to mind, doesn’t measure up to a classic like the Rogue Chocolate Stout.

Pours a oil slick black with a brown head. Has a lot of malts, hints of chocolate, coffee, and nuts. Finishes very smooth, and leaves the taste in your mouth.