Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout

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

Bottle. Pours very dark. Nice tan head. Aroma was malty with a nice hit of chocolate. Taste is chocolate and a touch of coffee, can taste the high ABV too. Nice.

12oz bottle, courtesy of Mr. Wolf. Dark black, it’s as black as something really black, had a nice chocolate head. Big chocolate aroma. Somewhat bitter chocolate flavor, some coffee flavor as well. Not bad.

Pours black with a cream head. Aroma is roasted barley and lots of chocolate. Taste is roasted barley, chocolate, liquorish and coffee. Very nice.

Very tasty and smooth. Strong flavors of coffee and chocolate. Sampled on draft at the Creative Loafing Beerfest 2008. Yum!

bottle, dark brown color with reddish accent, aroma of alcohol and coffee, flavor is bitter with strong alcohol, finish is light

Rich roasted aroma. Thick, but not as thick as might be expected for the style. It doesn’t seem as heavy as, say, Old Rasputin. Very noticeable alcohol presence asserts itself midway. Has all the rich, creamy, roasted stuff going on as you might expect, but not as much as most chocolate or Imperial stouts.

A thick, dark pour with the viscosity of motor oil. A deep and delicious coffee aroma with multiple complex notes. In the mouth the texture was rich, but truly lacked definition. I wasn’t sure where the wonderful coffee or chocloate aroma went. The finish was incredibly disappointing. This beer, which seemingly had been given so much attention from the folks at BB, left me thoroughly disappointed. For this style of beer, this is remarkably unremarkable. After drinking the entire 6-pack I can say that this is definitely not a 4.0+ beer.

Bottle courtesy of my Secret Santa. Pours black with a frothy brown head. Smells predominantly of roasted coffee. Tastes of toasted malts, dark cocoa, ash, slight raisin, and faint vanilla. Permeates alcohol as it warms. Well balanced and highly drinkable.