Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout

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

2008 Bottle. Poured a deep black with a one finger brown/red head. Aroma of bitter chocolate, coffee and roasted malt. Flavor was a little sweet, with a good chocolate aftertaste, and a strong coffee intial note. Full body with soft carbonation and a creamy/sticky mouthfeel. Great beer. Glad I bought a sixer.

V.’08-’09 bottle Textbook opaqueness but a rather extreme head with staying power for a RIS. Nice aroma of the usual roasted malt variety, but I think this is where my usual joy stops for this little ditty. This is my second try at this beer tonight and I’m met with equally frustrating results. I wanted my displeasure to be a fluke. It is flat, thin and has not one tale to tell. Brooklyn conditioned this for a little too long I think. Sure the heat is gone, but so is the flavor. My other vintages don’t suffer this badly. This has always been a ’’go to’’...

Wow! Pours a thick black tar color with tan creamy head. Smells of roasted, chocolate, coffee, and a little carmel. Tastes sweet like chocolate hard candy. Very thick flavor and sticky. Flavor stick around for a while. I’m not much of a stout person, but this is very good.

Thanks to lithy for the bottle!
Black and oily with a tan ring for a head. Nose is sweet and malty, slightly medicinal, but still balanced: cherry, licorice, chocolate, definite alcohol. Flavor is very salty and very alcoholic. Chocolate and roasted malt, a little smoky, and with warmth, I get some slight herbal hop. Palate is a little thin but still balanced. The heavy malt really keeps BBCS from Weyerbacher levels of medicinal; it’s so close to failing though. But it doesn’t, and it’s decent stuff. Tames with warmth, where more balance is achieved and a roasty bitterness emerges to finish it off nicely.

Thick motor oil pour with a dark tan head. Very fragrant chocolate, coffee, milk and sour fruit aroma. Sour berry flavor with chocolate and coffee ground notes. Just a tiny a mount of sweetness. Hides the alcohol well. Probably the best bang for you buck for any beer!

12 oz. bottle into wine glass for lack of snifter. Pretty much an oil black pour with a big (when poured vigorously) creamy tan head that holds well and leaves an unbelievably dense wall of lace (wish I could tag a picture to this rating). Great rich aroma of dark and milk chocolate, vanilla, with the perfect amount of subtle hops to balance these rich creamy aromas out. Solid flavor, though not as rich, robust, and complex as the aroma - all roasted dark chocolate with a bitter dark chocolate finish. Not as thick as the abv., style color suggest on the palate. Overall: good but hopefully better after a couple of months in the cellar. I docked the overall score because, thought it has a solid flavor and palate, I just didn’t feel right giving this a 4.4 (with an overall score that corresponded with the aroma and appearance etc.) Holla! P.S. 8.99 for a sixer of 10% brew is one of the best deals I have ever seen.

Dark roast malt character. Lots of chocolate and coffee. Very smoked. Great brew the warmer it gets. Very thick.

2007 bottle thanks to JB175. Pours thick and black with a foamy brown head. Great lacing. Aroma of chocolate, maplee, dark fruits, dates and alcohol. Taste is yeasty, with chocolate, coffee, cinnamon, and smoke. syrupy mouthfeel, light carbonation.