Bison Organic Chocolate Stout

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

Any first impressions?
-A ring of foam settles around the browned blackness.
-Roasting coffee beans and dark chocolate ferociously prance for the nostrils.
-Chocolatey sweetness walks side by side with proud malt roastiness.
-The big bubbles aren’t necessarily working with the svelte maltiness, imho.

What if you dig deeper?
-Complexity isn’t the purpose of this stout, pure enjoyment is.
-The grain bill is apparently more responsible for the chocolatey flavor profile than cocoa itself, which is appreciated.
-Dryness from the roasted malts builds with every sip, helped out by supporting hop bitterness.
-A very pleasant stout which must be less effervescent on tap, and thus rounder on the tongue.

Bottle; no date.

Opaque black pour that grows a large 1-inch tall foam that looks nitro-generated. Its aroma feels a bit simplistic due to its lack of dimensions, but the focus is there, hitting us directly with coffee beans and rather pure cocoa graininess. The result is a rather dry beer, certainly powdery and direct, but confident in its graininess. Limited hop profile is compensated by bitter roastiness.

22 oz bomber from Mace Nugget in Davis, CA. Very roasted, rich, slightly sweet chocolate aroma with some coffee hints present. Very pleasant. Dark bown/black color with a large, perseverant tan head and nice lacing. Attractive. Roasted and toasted flavors to start, turning dry and cocoa-like. Some dry hop bitterness comes in late. A bit overcarbonated an somewhat thin in body.

Pours a mostly opaque dark brown with a thin ring of tan head. Has a nice, sweet milk chocolatey aroma with a touch of roasted malt. Body starts with a pleasant dark caramel malty sweetness and a good balance of chocolate and a touch of dark fruity complexity with some piney hop presence in the finish. An enjoyable balanced beer.

Deep dark stout with a thick moka head. Light roasted coffee and smooth milk chocolate in aroma, with light alcohol. In mouth, a light roasted chocolate malt, with light bitterness, a bit short in mouth. Medium bodied. Enjoyed with the Mtl Crew Sept. 9, 2006.

via trade with Buck Dich - Pours a dark brown color with a nice tan head. Has a chocolate and roasted malt aroma. The flavor is chocolate and light coffee. Has a smooth, dry roasted finish. Medium body. Good beer. Thanks Jordan.

Clear dark brown body with a medium creamy light brown body. Chocolate aroma with some mild coffee and roasted malt. Strong chocolate flavor with some mild coffee bitter in the end.

12oz bottle poured a dark black color with a huge brown long lasting head with a tremendous amount of carbonation. The aroma was an amazing chocolate with some hints of roast and hops coming through. The taste was a big bittersweet chocolate that smoothed out quickly too a nice chocolate finish. Not much else in this beer other that the chocolate, would be a great desert beer.