Fort Collins Chocolate Stout

Brewed by Fort Collins Brewery
Style: Stout
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

Pours jet black with a thin, light tan, creamy head. The nose is of dark roasted malt and chocolate (like a Hostess cupcake) along with a faint lactose note. Medium-bodied and slick with assertive carbonation and a dry, roasted and lightly bitter finish. The flavor follows the nose with big roasted chocolate malt and a lightly bitter roasted finish. A decent, fairly one dimensional stout but not something that I’m likely to drink again.

Nice solid dark brown color with a bit of ruby getting through at the edges. Tall inch capping of tan froth sits firm and fluffy and sits for a good stint before fading to an always present thick skim and collar ring. Tons of thickly patched lacing glues itself to the glass. Aroma is pretty solid here with a broad roast and fluffy chocolate cake sense. Tenderly dryish and breadish with a fair portion of dark malty sweetness residing deep. Mostly stays pretty forward with a very nice display of adequate chocolate roastyness. Luckily the finish kinda helped pull things together for me, otherwise the middle area is in need of a boost. Taste is good with dry chocolate roast playing well across the palate with a cookie sense and a touch of burntness and sweetness at the hilt. Nice fluffy slow finish of cocoa powder and roast. Not overly complex but well worth each sip. Perhaps the feel is where I sense the most need for something. Shy of medium and closing in on getting there. But It has an emtpyness in the mid area that’s puzzling. Starts well with a nice snappy clean roastyness and a bit of carbonation. Flattens out, goes dry and fluffy and slowly builds and makes an impression from there with cocoa leftovers really sticking around in the finish late. Drinakability is fine, pretty sesionable stuff here, but lacks a certain depth and character that I may be searching for out of a chocolate stout.

Little to no head on this one. Sweet licorice sorta aroma. Slight pungent flavor upfront, can’t place what it is exactly. Faint chocolate and roasted malt flavors. Decent flavors. Would like a little more body, a little less bitter sweet flavor.

no chocolate flavors in this watery vesion of a stout. maybe i got a bad bottle, but it was extremly bland and burnt tasting.

This just tasted like a regular stout to me...nothing spectacular. Not bad though for a regular stout, but where is the chocolate?

draft @ brewery. Chocolate, roasty malts, with hints of vanilla. Pours black with a tan head. Light mouthfeel, sweet malts, hints of chocolate with a dry finish. Decent stout, but not much chocolate.

Bottled at Mesa Verde in the A terminal at Denver International airport. A black beer with a thick brown head. The aroma is sweet with notes of chocolate, malt, and caramel. The flavor is sweet malty dominated by notes of chocolate, leading to a dry and slightly bitter finish.

12oz bottle thanks Jim! solid and even deep brown color displaying hints of amber on the edges. little if any head forms. roasted malt and chocolate bar appears on the nose. medium body provides for easy drinking. flavor is good, lots of chocolate and roasted malt with a dry and mildly bitter finish. not bad.