Bison Organic Chocolate Stout

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

bottle from brickskeller. deep dark brown. lacing over a slowly receding dark tan head. flavor is smooth, with pronounced cocoa flavor and roasted malts.

Pours black with brown head. Has aroma of malt and coffee and excellent tastes of chocolate, coffee, malt, and cocoa. Very well balanced.

Dark dirt brown color, opaque with a lightly fizzy head that turns on with a swirl and light lacing that dribbles down the glass like a string of druel. Nose of light soy sauce and vanilla beans, some anise, fennel type notes. A bit of alcohol, portish in nature and heavily sweetened latté. Brittle roast & baker’s chocolate, some caramel and molasses. The flavor has a touch of astringency and noticable bitterness from the hops with a mild cocoa & roasted barley note towards the end. Definately some cola notes towards the end here as ontario102 so eloquantly put. The body seems a bit lacking at first but grows in volume the more you drink. The dry bitterness & astringency overpower the expected dessert image. The final tail of this has a bit more caramel & chocolate malt notes and it actually improves greatly as it passes through drinking temp to room temp.

Lovely, roasted mocha nose; moderate body, very roasted and somewhat burnt black patent flavor and associated bitterness, nice maltiness and bitter roasted and hop balance with maybe a tad of astringency; definite cocoa assersion; some cola and brown sugar notes; damn good

Poured a dark black with a smaller brownish head. Aromas and tastes of roasted malts and cocoa. Light coffee in the taste. The body was a little on the thin and watery side.

Finally a brewery nailed the chocolate stout! I wonder, is this the same beer that has been reviewed? My label was different and it was organic. Regardless, great chocolate flavor, nice balance of malt and roast and a clean bitterness. Better than the Sam Chocolate bock and less than half the price!

Quite good but not outstanding in any way. Dark and chocolatey. A little on the thin side but quite smooth.

(Bottle) Pours a black body with a spare light brown head. Aroma of chocolate, coffee, and raosted malts. Flavor of chocolate and coffee. Bitter and too thin of body for a stout.