Fort Collins Double Chocolate Stout

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

Dark dark brown, basically black, smooth creamy tan head. Chocolate aroma, big roastiness. Taste is again roast, almost grainy astringency, then a cheap chocolate, cocoa finish, lingering bitterness.

Thoroughly enjoyed on tap in a nonic glass. The beer pours a brownish-black color with a lively tan head that lasts several minutes. The nose is a melange of dark chocolate, a subtle touch of Munich or med-high crystal malt, and earthy hops. The palate is surprisingly light and full of finesse, given the abv. Light-but-present bitterness greats the mouth up front, followed by a smooth character that shows milk and dark chocolate, malt notes, and a medium-dry finish. The beer seems to out-Guiness Guiness with regard to creating an "extra" or "foreign export" stout." Extremely well-designed and brewed.

Black pour with a light tan head of nice size and retention that leaves soapy, scattered lacing. Aroma consists of semi-sweet chocolate, coffee and roasted malt. Flavors are dark chocolate and coffee. Nice bitter finish but the flavors kinda drop off at the mid-palate... lacking just a bit in the complexity department. Medium-full body with moderate carbonation and alcohol warmth. A good sweet stout.

Draught tasting at ACBF. Black with lighter tan head. Aroma is chocolate, burnt coffee, and syrup. A lot thicker brew then the Single Chocolate. Flavor of chocolate milk, and dark burnt coffee, bread rolls, and milder masked fruit notes sit behind the more traditional stout flavors. Medium Length Finish that is warm.

Bomber. A dark, slightly translucent cola-mahogany pour is crowned by a tall head of dark khaki froth. Collapsing quickly, the, foam settles in to a patchy, bubbly blanket, leaving some nice, broken sheets of lacing all over the glass. The aroma shows sweet cocoa and dark caramel malt, with hints of lactic mocha, and some moderate coffee roast for balance. Flavors definitely tend to lean more towards the sweet side, with the saccharine chocolate, caramel, and burnt toffee piling on with the creamy lactose to outweigh the rustic coffee notes. The palate is medium-full and airy, very creamy and smooth, but perhaps a little too sweet and sticky on the finish. Strangely, the coffee really intensifies at the end in a fleeting moment of bitterness. It’s a very solid sweet stout.

Pours a creamy 1 inch head atop some nice black liquid that gets ruby coloured around the edges when held up to the light. Smells of chocolate and roasted coffee. Very enticing. Nice dark roasted malts. Taste is very good, but also a bit of a letdown. The coffee flavor comes through to dominate the taste. The chocolate follows on the backend. In the middle is that roasted malt flavor with a slight (tiny) touch of hops. I expected the chocolate to be more dominant. It is very smooth in the mouth. Not overpoweringly full, but by no means weak or watery. A little on the weak side for my tastes, as I like ’em big and bold. (Then again, there are times that subtlety is nice, also.) I certainly could drink quite a few of these pretty easily, but, if I’m buying, there may be a few other bottles in my way before I get to this one again. (Not alot, but a few, to be certain.)

Tastes like a melted bar of dark chocolate with a hint of coffee. I could go on and on but the most striking thing with this beer is the body. Has a nice feel to it. I would like to have a regular FCB chocolate stout to try with it.

Bottle. Very dark beer. Not as chocolately as I thought it would be. A little more bitter then I thought it would be. Otherwise a very good beer. Did taste the slight coffee flavor, didn’t really get the licorice that is sometimes mentioned. Will drink again. Recommended.