Rogue Chocolate Stout

Brewed by Rogue Ales
Style: Sweet Stout
Newport, Oregon USA

Deep dark chocolate brown. Dark tan head. Brown spiderweb of lace. Head sticks around for a few minutes. Quite good. A very chocolatey sweetness in the nose, balanced by a lightly toasted malt. Almost like chocolate milk with a heavy malted base. Very sweet and appealing. Sweet malt flavors, very heavy chocolate in the malt. Roasted but not burnt or bitter. A taste more like liquid chocolate than like a stout. Warmth gives a hint of roasted bitterness. Creamy and rich feel on the tongue. Milky, with a tiny bite at the swallow. Otherwise, as smooth as it gets. In this beer, chocolate is the name of the game. Sweet (but not saccharine) and very smooth. Quite quite good.

Aroma of dark and cooking choclates with a hint of spice and orange. Big coffee and cream head. More chocolate and dry cocoa flavour, with roast, citrus and caramel, jaffas, and a touch of grassy hop bittereness. A big, tasty dessert beer.

Great beer, much better than their Mocha Porter. Strong chocolate flavor that doesn’t get tiresome and a full body. Sessionable stout. Great balance between the bitterness associated with dark chocolate and stouts and sweetness of lighter chocolates. Soft brown head that dissipates quickly so you can get straight to the delicious stout that awaits.

Pours dark dark brown with a pillowy soft, thick and creamy head. A picture in a glass. Lovely rich chocolate aroma, some hints of roasted note - quite inviting. Chocolate and some brunt toast flavourwise, with a velvet smoothness over the palate. Would be awesome teamed up with a rich chocolate dessert.

Poured into a pint glass from a 1pt. 6oz. bottle. The color is a complete dark black, with a light brown foamy head which sticks to the glass. The smell is of sweet chocolate. Smells like a chocolate bar of a Hersey kiss. The taste is very chocolate. Tastes like a Mr. Goodbar, some nutty flavor mixed in with the creamy chocolate. This is one of the very best stouts I have had. It may be the best stout. It is really easy drinking and very tasty. It also has just enough bitter hops taste to remind you it is a stout. This would make for a very good after dinner beer.

Chocolate nose hits you first. Nice balance of sweetness and bitterness. Reminds me of what a weaker cousin to Dark Lord might be.

Nearly opaque with a bit of reddish brown. Big tan head response. Big chocolate smell on the nose. Lots of sweet chocolate upfront, with a lingering dark chocolate bitterness. Roasted coffee grounds appear deep into the finish. Decent but the bitterness lasts a bit too long.

On tap at Coasters. Pours black with a thin tan head. Aroma of smoke and, very faintly, dark chocolate. Tastes of light citrus hops, dark chocolate, and just a hint of coffee. Some combination of this becomes less pleasant the more I drink; the hops become noticably more present almost to the point of being a bit sour. Having had this both in the bottle and on tap I prefer it in the bottle. A very solid stout all the same especially based on the first few sips.