Youngs Double Chocolate Stout

Brewed by Wells & Youngs
Style: Stout
Bedford, England

Pours BLACK. No light comes through this one. Beautiful. Massive dense head that looks like frothed coffee. A steady hand can pour this so that the head rises in a column right out of the glass. Smells of very good chocolate, sweetened grains (rice or oatmeal, maybe), and malty goodness. Tastes of a heavy chocolate dose in a cup of very light coffee. Just sweet and tasty goodness. Like you squeezed beer out of a chocolate bar. Very nice and creamy in the mouth. I like a little creamier taste, though. Took a little off of the rating for this. It’s very good, just not great. This remains one of my all-time favorite beers. It can be enjoyed on a special occasion, as a dessert beverage, or as a session beer (at least for me, personally, it can).

Nitro Can. Reminds me alot of Guinness and the other nitro stouts. Except this has noticeable amounts of chocolate in the aroma and finish. Nice flavor.

Draft @ Yardhouse in Rancho Cucamonga. Pours jet black - as others note, looks a lot like Guiness. Nose is subdued but nice and lightly roasted. Chocolate is apparent, but really hits more on the tongue than the nose. Flavor is, well, exquisute, really. Reminds me of the chocolate covered cherries my relatives in WI send me every year. Creamy and really full flavors. Very impressed.

Nice Black color with beige head.Aroma is very sweet chocolate with some coffee.The only thing that leaves this brew a little less then other of this style is it’s kind of boring texture and has not much of a body. This is the kind of brew to initiate friends to different type of beer.

The chocolate is in perfect harmony with the rest of the brew. A truly satisfying stout. Excellent.

Black as hell. Pretty reminiscent of Guinness, actually. Especially with the way the head settles with a cascading effect. It almost looks like an imperial stout, too. One whiff and you know why it’s called chocolate stout. It smells like liquid chocolate (or liquid sex - depends on how you look at it). It is a very sweet smelling brew. Whilst trying it out, it reminded me, again, of Guinness. It was kinda watery as it entered the mouth and then the chocolate kicked in (oh so nice). It was a very sweet brew. But, this brew has almost no texture. I mean, it’s better than, say, Bud. But, in comparison to the other high-class brews we’ve had lately, this is highly lacking. It’s kinda watery and has no body. The flow of the flavors was nice but they didn’t hit you in the way that a 4.3+ beer on this site would.

Not bad but too thin in body. Nice roasted flavor. Chocolate tasted artificial.

Okay, this is why I hate rating to they style listed. This isn’t just a stout and to rate it as one would be a terrible injustice. Anyway, from a can poured into a glass, it’s oil-can black with a beautiful beige head that leaves a bit of lacing. Watching the nitro dance up the glass always knocks the ’appearance’ up a point. Flavor is like a nutty chocolate bar, but not very strong. Palate is a bit thin, but this is on nitro. This is a good beer to give your friends who are afraid of real beers as it’ll open their eyes to what beer *can* be, and then they might be willing to try others. Heck, even my wife ’doesn’t mind’ this beer.