Box Of Chocolate
Charleville Vineyard Microbrewery

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From:
Charleville Vineyard Microbrewery
 
Missouri, United States
Style:
Quadrupel (Quad)
Ranked #58
ABV:
10.5%
Score:
91
Ranked #6,726
Avg:
4.09 | pDev: 11.25%
Reviews:
111
Ratings:
321
Status:
Active
Rated:
Nov 23, 2023
Added:
Feb 13, 2011
Wants:
  217
Gots:
  65
It's Difficult to express Love's nuances, much like the complexity of this Belgian style Chocolate Quad. You Might use a Box of Chocolate to express your love, we use it to demonstrate our passion for great beer.
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Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho

3.88/5  rDev -5.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Bottle at share. Big chocolate aroma,sweet, plums. Taste is sweet, more chocolate and plums. Nice feel, slippery. 10% not evident at all. Chocolate covered cherries come to mind,
Nov 23, 2023
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Reviewed by MonDak_Joe1953 from Minnesota

4.24/5  rDev +3.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.25
12oz can. No dating information found.
Black colored body. One thick finger of tan head, which rather quickly recedes to scattered islands and a cap. Leaves a few scattered small spots of lacing.
Aroma of milk chocolate and dark fruit.
Taste is chocolate and black cherry. All continue into the aftertaste.
Thicker mouth feel. Slightly heightened presence on the tongue but no burn. Higher ABV% is well hidden. Supportive carbonation.
May 14, 2023
 
Rated: 4.04 by bpkrippner from Missouri

Feb 17, 2022
 
Rated: 4.25 by Eyedoc27 from Illinois

Apr 09, 2020
 
Rated: 4.25 by paulish from New York

Feb 22, 2020
 
Rated: 4.41 by CheapBeerBuzz from California

Dec 30, 2019
 
Rated: 4 by westcoastbeerlvr from California

Dec 30, 2019
 
Rated: 3.94 by cd34 from Illinois

Aug 11, 2019
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Reviewed by wmscottsimpsonjr from Missouri

3.19/5  rDev -22%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Smells like milk chocolate. Very very strong flavor (I know it's a quad, but it's just a little too much); quite sweet. Tastes like milk chocolate and...cherry? Maybe dried fruit. Bit of spice. Hint of alcohol, but not much for 10.5 abv. Feels like cocoa in the mouth. Medium bodied and sharply carbonated.
Jun 20, 2018
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Rated by FrauTotenkinder from Missouri

4.25/5  rDev +3.9%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Decadent. Sneaks up on you.
Mar 31, 2018
 
Rated: 4 by monty79_1997 from Missouri

Mar 25, 2018
 
Rated: 3.75 by fthegiants from California

Mar 01, 2018
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Rated by ak010101 from New York

4.15/5  rDev +1.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Dark Brown, Chocolate with hints of various fruits. Smooth taste.
Feb 04, 2018
 
Rated: 4 by SDRedDevil from California

Dec 11, 2017
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Reviewed by JohnnyHopps from Indiana

4.21/5  rDev +2.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
Appearance - The beer poured a strange shade od brown that reminded me of watered down cola.

Smell - As best I can descibe it, the beer had potent chocolate notes with a Belgian presence.

Taste - At first, this is like drinking a thin, but not overly sweet, chocolate syrup. Other notes include light banana, raisins, and a light sugar sweetness. The chocolate stays relatively strong in the aftertaste.

Mouthfeel - For a quad, the beer did seem a tad thin. I expect Belgians to be stickier.

Overall - The 10.5% abv is well masked. This drinks like a cordial. Far from perfect, this is still well done.
Dec 09, 2017
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Rated by drewskihausen from Missouri

4.17/5  rDev +2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
L: dark black, small smooth/silky head, appealing
S: good smell, hint of chocolate
T: smooth taste, hint of chocolate,
F: not acidic; good feel
Aug 28, 2017
 
Rated: 4 by jkrug5 from Maryland

Aug 11, 2017
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Reviewed by thebeers from Pennsylvania

3.39/5  rDev -17.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Ruddy dark brown with a thin, fizzy, cola-colored head.

Chocolate, plum, coffee and carbon dioxide in the nose. It is somewhat reminiscent of a fruit-filled chocolate.

A weird chocolate and plum mix again up front in the taste, with some dull hops and coffee in the aftertaste. Very fruity and sweet.

It's thin-to-medium bodied for the style and surprisingly still in the feel. Between the look, stillness and sweetness it almost comes across as a flat soda feel.

Honestly, the sweet, flat-cola, chocolate and plum combo doesn't work for me.
Jul 30, 2017
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Reviewed by StonedTrippin from Colorado

3.83/5  rDev -6.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
this was a bit of a weird one, not totally lost on me, but definitely a unique brew that takes some pondering to figure out. a belgian quad with a load of chocolate in it. its a great idea, but the beer to me tastes a little cheap and forced, its weirdly perfumy, like the chocolate shouldt be this aromatic, it also smells and tastes like cherry coke to me, with a nice fruity sweet malt base and a syrupy texture, hints of cocoa and food chemicals, its good, but its strange and new, and maybe too flavored. i could see some oak really mellowing this out, but i think it also needs to ferment down a bit more, strong as it already is, there is just so much sweetness on the back end of this, even for the style. i also think the belgian yeast element is a little under developed, or else lost to the chocolate and almost floral fruitiness in here. id like a little more spice from it and a little more breakdown of these sugars. good carbonation and it feels like a belgian to me, with a lightness even though its huge. cool brew, id love the wood aged version i think, but this seems overdone to me. maybe just my tastes though, as it looks like people really dig this...
Jun 01, 2017
 
Rated: 4.09 by MDDMD from Pennsylvania

Mar 16, 2017
Box Of Chocolate from Charleville Vineyard Microbrewery
Beer rating: 91 out of 100 with 321 ratings