Southern Tier Mokah

Brewed by Southern Tier Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Lakewood, New York USA

Bottle, 22 fl. oz. Pours a dark to black beer with a lightbrown head. The aroma is chocolate and so is the flavor. The palate is sweet. Overall a really chocolate beer.

22oz Bomber – Gravity Beer Market – Olympia, WA
Aroma: Big Chocolate Stout aroma dark malts and roasty.
Appearance: Dark Brown in color, Clear with a light head.
Flavor: Tons of flavors, Chocolate comes out quite nice.br> Overall: Bug chocolate beer this was. Once again a IPMY Stout this just does not have the huge alcohol flavor.

22 oz. bomber bottle. No freshness date seen. Poured out a deep, dark brown. Very little head. Left a lacing down the sides of the glass. Aromas are Hershey’s Dark Chocolate Bar, very little else. Flavors are strictly Hershey’s Chocolate Bar. Alcohol is present as well. Aftertaste is chocolate bar. Basically a chocolate bar in a glass, with some alcohol thrown in.

Bottle ( 22oz ). Shared with blankboy, garthicus, gregclow, jerc and mabel. Deep but clear ruby pour, bright, with a frothy lasting light brown frothy head. The aroma was pretty sweet, borderline boozy aroma, floral, lightly spicy, but mostly a slightly carbonized sweet chocolate maltiness - a lot like a flavoured coffee. Taste - very smooth, not too strong (certainly not like many 11% beers), just sweet and lightly spicy mocha chocolate roast - yummy. Slick, creamy mouthfeel, plenty of choco-malt, but surprisingly bitter in the finish, which sure takes its time. Lovely, lovely stout - I want more. Next Buffalo trip .... the last note on my page: "SMOOOOOTH!"

The aroma is exactly like chocolate milk with coffee and toasted malt. The alcohol is well hidden. The appearance is dark brown with a smaller tan head. The taste has the same elements as the aroma but the bitterness is overpowering and unexpected since the aroma has no hops. The palate is smooth and almost thick but right about what I was expecting. Overall a fantastic smelling beer now they need to match the taste to it.

Southern Tier Mokah is a dessert beer. Seriously, it’s very rich, sweet and chocolaty, so you can skip dessert and just enjoy this fine beer.

Southern Tier’s Imperial Mokah is the “chocolate beer” that I never thought I would have. It is one whambamshabam of chocolate flavors, assaulting all the senses, and the face, and drowns the user in a rushing tide of cocoa and chocolate. The Imperial Mokah will fill your lungs with chocolate flavors, then erupt through the top of your skull, raining violent droplets of cocoa flavor down on everyone around you. Even pre-pour, a goliath of a scent crashes into my nose, cleanly cutting through the air with its heavy alcohol, and following that with crystal clear, shining explosions of very, very dark chocolate and espresso. I even catch the slightest hint of mint, who is not drowning in this chocolate milieu, but clearly enjoying its role in the backseat. The Imperial Mokah, in fact, smells like a chocolate shop, the walls practically oozing with chocolates of all intensities and flavors. Bottle that sensation, and there you have the Mokah’s scent. Now, sometimes beers like this with intense aromas fail to deliver that same intensity in the flavor. But the Imperial Mokah has not let me down, preferring to continue its assault on my senses to my palate. Huge, rich, bold and sweeping flavors exterminate any vestiges of dinner after-tastes, replacing it with something akin to chocolate syrup. This is, undoubtedly, the most chocolatey beer I have ever had. What’s even more strange is that many beers like this (chocolate, that is) often add a heavy dose of coffee flavors, but those are totally absent. In fact, the chocolate is so dominant I’m somewhat hesitant to call this a beer, in the same way that a fruit beer is a beer to my conventional imagination. But whatever this...this divine elixir is, it’s a most wonderful juice for avid chocophiles the world over.

Small sample from a bomber at a tasting at Bishops Arms, Göteborg, Sweden. Black with a red edge and medium beige head. Nice mix of dark milk chocolate and coffee, with some tar and liquorice. Full bodied and smooth. Well balanced.