Right Brain Chocolate Orange Cream Stout

Brewed by Right Brain Brewery
Style: Stout
Traverse City, Michigan USA

Growler courtesy of GoT. Pours a light brown color with a small, foamy tan head that shows good retention leaving plenty of lace behind. The aroma shows cocoa, roasted malts, and some sweet orange peels. The aroma is pretty dry and roasty. The flavor follows with the roasty cocoa and caramel malt base with the sweet orange peel and dry yeast. The chocolate and orange and a nice little combo. Medium bodied, smooth and fairly easy to drink with subtle carbonation and a dry, roasted cocoa finish. This is a uinque blend of flavors with the orange and chocolate.

Growler, courtesy GoT. Pours a slightly hazy, chestnut brown color with a small, foamy, tan head. Lasting a good while, the head leaves a good amount of spotty lacing behind. The aroma shows notes of brown sugar and light cocoa roast, with hints of gingersnap cookies and candied orange peel. There’s a touch dry, lactic yeast going on that lends a milky sort of feel. Flavors are the same, lightly roasty and lactic, cocoa-caramel driven, with bright orange peel sweetness. I happen to think citrus rind and chocolate work well together, so this one suits me nicely. Medium bodied and smooth, the moderate carbonation keeps it even keeled and easy drinking. It’s a nice change-of-pace stout.

Godofthunder. Yep yep. Roasty aroma with some chocolate and maybe light mandarin?? Flavor is very, very roasty. Not much orange. Light chocolate. Meh.

October ‘09 O-Town Throwdown. Cheers to Godofthunder for the growler. Pours brown, off-white head. Aroma of orange peel, malty, light chocolate,/ hop bitterness. really enjoyed the aroma and mix of orange with the chocolate. Flavor, thin orange peel body, light roasted malts, chocolate, hoppy notes. The mix is unique and enjoyable.

Growler… October ‘09 O-Town Throwdown!… Very dark brown ale with a small, creamy, khaki head. Good retention. Smells Dunkelweizen-like. I am unable to pick out any orange component at all. Medium-bodied and fizzy. Too sweet and grainy. Not really dark enough for a stout. Spicy, like a Dunkelweizen. Finishes sweet, but also bland. Growler shared by GoT and northernbrews!

Sampled from a growler at the Metro Detroit October ’09 tasting thanks to northernbrews. Near black pour with brown highlights and a loose off-white head. Some roast and sweet citrus in the aroma. The flavor is roast, smoke, and sweet citrus. Creamy medium-full body with soft carbonation.

On tap at the brewery. Dark, almost opaque brown with creamy tan head. Aroma is sweet orange with chocolate, so good. Flavor is like a medium-sweet chocolate covered orange, a little bitter chocolate, nice. Medium to light body with light carbonation. Exactly like those chocolate oranges, nice.