Shenandoah Chocolate Donut Stout

Brewed by Shenandoah Brewing Company
Style: Stout
Alexandria, Virginia USA

Tasted at PP bottle shop. Tim brought a bottle. Roasty smell. Some chocolate icing smell at a low level. Pretty interesting aroma. Not as strong as a real donut. Quickly fading small bubble head. Dry flavor, which kills the chocolate donut impression I was hoping for.

A darkish brown with a thinnish tan even small head. Donuts? Chocolatey creamy like ST Choklat. Not a ton of character. small dark malt. Tootsie Roll? Low carbonation, low viscosity, average mouthfeel. Sweet, very! Tastes like watered down ST Choklat. A bit of fruit. Rather empty. Creamy. A small fruit roast in there, okay.

Bottle from kmweaver. Pours black with a nice tan head. Aroma of sweet chocolate--but fake smelling with a little bit of a tangy smell. The taste is a very tangy chocolate that hits the back of your tongue with a weird flavor. I don’t get any donut or glaze really. Maybe I’m missing something, but this one was a miss for me.

how often do I care about aroma or appearance? Almost never. But you cant ignore this pretty perfumed bombshell. Creamy glaze from a bit of diacetyl is filling my mouth OK. The flavor is pretty nice, but somethings a bit off... plastic? mild emptiness? i dont know... still super cool beer, but something prevents true greatness. thanks kmweaver

Sugary glazed chocolate and donuts in the nose, as advertised! Flavor is midly sweet with a bit of a perfumy sweet sugar note and lighter notes of toffee and chocolate. Tastes almost like a glaze at times but it’s a moderate sugariness and not simply a result of overuse of the malt. I have to say the flavor and finish are a bit disappointing, but it’s still a delectable dessert beer and I’ve never anything quite like it.

Chocolate donut beer, yeah right... Nearly black colour with a bit of dark head. Aroma is chocolaty and yeasty. The flavour is truly unique. Lots of chocolate flavour with a donut like finish. Reminds me of an ld fashioned chocolate cake donut with some glaze. Really unique!

Thanks to Michelle for this. This is one of the most unique beers I’ve ever tasted. The body is almost black. The aroma is chocolaty sweet and yeasty, like bread just before putting it in the oven., and also somewhat liquer-ish The flavor is buttery and of course chocolate, which makes this very similar to a chocolate dessert, or in the case of this one, a donut. Pretty amazing stuff.

Smells much like unbaked yeast dough, appears like many other dark beers. The flavor is in between a buttery bucket of movie theatre popcorn and a donut. Very different when compared to any other beer that I have tried.