Twisted Pine Dark Chocolate Stout

Brewed by Twisted Pine Brewing
Style: Stout
Boulder, Colorado USA

Served topped with cocoa powder, it obviously smells like cocoa. Appears pitch black with a dark head. Ironically tastes like cocoa powder meets stout; nothing too special though.

Tap at brewery during GABF 2009.
Pours a deep, thick black with a plastic coffee and chocolate nose. Flavor is roasted malt with tiny chunks of chocolate and cocoa powder. Average mouthfeel. Not bad but the taste is typical of a chain brewpub’s stout offering.

Draught. Pours opaque with a small fizzy dark brown head, mostly diminishing with spare lacing. Aroma is heavy malt (burnt grain, chocolate), light hop (herbs), average yeast (leather, leaves) with notes of prune and charcoal. Full bodied, creamy texture, soft carbonation, and a bitter finish. Long duration, moderate sweetness and bitterness, light acidity.