Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout

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

[bottle 355 ml] Beautiful, dark color, with a thick brown foam. Lots of chokolate in thearoma, but also some coffee. The flavor has, of course, chocolate, and also some coffee and licorice. If you take a small sip of water right after, you get a very dry sense of cocoa.

12oz winter 06-07 bottle courtesy of MuenchenerKindl, thanks man. Obviously this was dark black. It smelled nice, chocolate. the taste was vinous sort of like Stone Russian. Fruity flavors, chocolate, a tad thin on the body for my taste but overall this was a nice easy to drink beer, especially since I split it with a friend. I have heard this is around $10 a six-pack which would make it an exceptional value if I had access to it. 12oz winter 08-09 bottle courtesy of vwcraig, thanks! Black as expected, really nice chocolate stout smell, nice taste of sweet fruit. This is good beer. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 09-17-2008 14:58:41

08-09 Bottle.Pours a dark black with a small ring of mocha coloured head. Aroma is of chocolate fudge, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, dark fruits, red licorice, anise seed, tar, smoke, and roasted coffee. Tastes very chocolaty, dark, milk chocolate, some dark roasted coffee, red and black licorice, dark fruits (plum? wasn’t expecting that), tar, and soy sauce. mouth feel is great, velvety, oily, light bubbles which make the body a little lighter, it just coats your mouth in a really nice way. This is a great beer, I would have this any day.

I give this massive bonus points for being widely available when this could easily earn the reputation of say a Dark Lord if it were a limited release. With that said, I am not too impressed. Too boozy fresh and not much in the way of anything distinguishing it from most other solid RIS.

2008 Bottle - Thanks CaptainCougar! - Pours a thick black with a large tan head..aroma is dark and sweet molassas malt, coffee...flavour expounds on the bitter chocolate aspect present in most Imperials, vanilla and a bit of charred wood as well...It has that lactic end on it that I don’t care much for, but is still darn fine...

Bottle. Thanks MixinNixon!!! Pours a black color with a nice tan head. Aroma: Sweet, malty, somewhat alcoholic. Flavor: Tastes very chocolatey, with just a tad of hops and a slight bitterness in the finish.

Mixed feelings on this beer every time I drink it, and I think this rating reflects my ambiguity towards it. Sometimes it’s simply great; mellow, restrained and delicious. Sometimes it’s too sweet and overly alcoholic. I also made the mistake of drinking BCS next to a Founder’s Breakfast Stout, which makes it seem thin and flavorless. Not a bad beer by any means, but I wonder about consistency or my palate on this one. I’ve got some to age and rerate in a while.

Reminds me a lot of Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast without as much coffee notes. Pours pitch black with a thin head. Disappointing lacing. Alcohol was masked too well as it sneaks up on you quickly. Good stuff.