Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout

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

355 ml bottle- vintage 04-05, BB 01/20-07. Black color, disappering brown head. Aroma is strong dark chocolate and roasted malt. Flavor is dark chocolate, coffee, sweet - ends with a nice bitterness.

I’ve homebrewed beer that included actual cocoa in it and it didn’t taste this chocolaty. Pours black with some brown around edges, thin tan head that disappears quickly. Aroma is of alcoholic chocolate. Flavor is bold as you would expect from an imp st, but the chocolate is what separates this one from some of the others. Although there is a sweetness to it, it is no overpowering, and the chocolate and roasty malt bangs through. I will definitely cellar some of this until next winter to see how it ages.

Bottle, thanks to Magic_dave6 for this one (and cgarvieuk for storing it after I left it at his!) 07-08 bottling. Thick and black with a brown head. Nose is sweet syrupy, warming, malty, some dark fruit, and heavily roasted coffee. Mouth is heavy dark malt, sweet, even sour at first, very alcoholic, but develops into the most gorgeous aftertaste of roasted espresso and lovely bitter dark gritty chocolate. Some spirit burn and warm on the way down, bit underwhelmed by the aroma, little too much alcohol evident, but fantastically good.

bottle 05-06 vintage huge chocolate nose and super chocolate malty....hard to belive there is no chocolate in it...a bit of the usual suspects like coffee and roasted malt flavor.....not as balanced as it should be ....maybe in a few years?

Aroma is full of roasted malts, dark cacoa, molasses, and a little liquor. It’s appearance is awesome, jet black, with a peanut skin-colored foamy head. It full of flavor dark chocolate asserts it self, followed by liquor, deep roasted malt, and some coffee as well.

Winter 07-08 poured from bottle. Very dark chocolate brown. Head is chocolaty brown and bubbly. Aroma is dark chocolate and coffee. A lot of alcohol in the flavor with roasted chocolate and coffee. Very sticky mouth feel with a heavy alcoholic finish. A tasty Imperial Stout.

Black body, mocha head. Aroma: Fruity, coffee, malt. Bitter and sweet. Full bodied. Lots of roast. Oily palate. Not as sweet tasting as the aroma. Even with character.

Bottle from Canals, sampled with Stegosaurus. Black pour with two finger beige head. Aroma was simply alcohol and chocolate. Same in the taste with a stong body and good blend. Really good.