Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout

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

Pours thick black and has creamy mocha head. Actually looks like coffee. Taste is roasted malt, coffee (espresso), liquor, burnt wood, and a little bit of dark chocolate. Mouthfeel is somewhat lively and slightly silky. Medium long finish and medium weight mouthfeel. Completely overrated.

Bottle. Nose of coco, roasted goodies, coffee, and alcohol. Poured a black (who would have ever guessed) color with brown foam that quickly dissipated. During devouring this stout, I noticed no head retention or lacing. Tasted like toasted malts, chocolate, with a smooth slight smoky finish. Low carbonation on my palate and overall this is a well crafted stout. Not as good as Ommegang Chocolate Indulgence or Oskar Blues Ten Fidy.

Bottle - pours pure black with a small brown head. Aroma is strong dark chocolate. Flavour is very chocolatey and the alcohol is quite apparent at 10%. Simply one of the best imperial stouts out there.

( 12pz bottle) pours pure black with a huge head as big as the beer that is dark brown, creamy and oily. Nose of semi-sweet chocolate malt, cream and light bittering hops. Taste has only a hint of alcohol, semi/sweet chocolate, creamy and just the right thickness for the style. Finishes with a slight chocolate bitter and more creaminess.

Om nom nom. SO GOOD. From bottle into pint at Professor’s Pub. Aroma is bleu cheese for some reason but the taste is definitely all that bitter dark chocolate and roasted malts. Pours dark black with a half inch dark coffee head. Smooth yummy and bitter finish.

12oz bottle, pours black with a this brown head. Comes on a bit sweet but finishes with a bitter chocolate note.

12oz Bottle. Finally in Texas! Black with a nice-sized medium-brown head which diminishes to a little ring of foam at the rim of my glass. Big malty aroma, toasty and chocolaty. Flavor is... boozy! This is a fresh one, and it shows - I’ll be doing some cellaring... Rich smooth malt combines with chocolate, coffee, a bit of licorice. Pretty much everything I’d want from an imperial stout, except that it’s a little too boozy right now for me. Some cellaring of this one will do nicely, I think. Since I bought a 4-pack, I’ll revisit this one in no less than 6 months, I think. For now, things bode well. I’m very happy to have this beer available locally.

Black with a beautiful dark foam that disappears pretty quickly. I think the beer smells more coffee than chocolate. The flavor is rich, strong and pleasant. Coffee, licorice, chocolate, fruits. Plesant bitterness. Good but a little bit too alcoholic.