Box Of Chocolate | Charleville Vineyard Microbrewery
Brewed by:
Charleville Vineyard Microbrewery
Missouri, United States
charlevillevineyard.com
Style: Quadrupel (Quad)
Alcohol by volume (ABV): 10.50%
Availability: Winter
Notes / Commercial Description:
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.
Added by jmvecchio1 on 02-13-2011
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Ratings: 303 | Reviews: 106
4/5 rDev -1.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours black with a very small amount of head with no lacing. The smell of chocolate first and then dark malts. On the taste the quad comes through with dark fruits underneath a nice sweet chocolate. There is no alcohol taste for the 10.5%. The mouthfeel is low to medium carbonation and reasonably smooth. Overall a nice beer that's very easy to drink for 10.5%.
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look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours black with a very small amount of head with no lacing. The smell of chocolate first and then dark malts. On the taste the quad comes through with dark fruits underneath a nice sweet chocolate. There is no alcohol taste for the 10.5%. The mouthfeel is low to medium carbonation and reasonably smooth. Overall a nice beer that's very easy to drink for 10.5%.
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4.5/5 rDev +11.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
3.53/5 rDev -12.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
4.42/5 rDev +9.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
3.5/5 rDev -13.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Pours black. Got a little bit of khaki fizz to rise to the top, but that was it. Poured straight into the glass. Not off to a good start here. Chocolate with a twinge of Belgian yeast in the aroma. Chocolate flavors mingle with Belgian yeast spice, and dark fruits. Feel has a medium consistency, with fairly easy drink-ability. A bit harsh carbonation. Overall, a beer that is different, but still interesting to try. I don't think it delivered for me, but your mileage may vary.
Served in a 12oz snifter.
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look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Pours black. Got a little bit of khaki fizz to rise to the top, but that was it. Poured straight into the glass. Not off to a good start here. Chocolate with a twinge of Belgian yeast in the aroma. Chocolate flavors mingle with Belgian yeast spice, and dark fruits. Feel has a medium consistency, with fairly easy drink-ability. A bit harsh carbonation. Overall, a beer that is different, but still interesting to try. I don't think it delivered for me, but your mileage may vary.
Served in a 12oz snifter.
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3.52/5 rDev -13.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.58/5 rDev -11.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
4.06/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
5/5 rDev +23.5%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
This is a great choice. I went to get my growler filled and tried a sample of this one. I didn't try anymore samples. I had it filled right away.
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look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5
This is a great choice. I went to get my growler filled and tried a sample of this one. I didn't try anymore samples. I had it filled right away.
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3.94/5 rDev -2.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.19/5 rDev -21.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Dark, light, minimal head.
Some fizzy bubbles surface and dance on the tongue.
I get chocolate, but also some licorice and/or alfalfa, which I suppose is the work of the yeast, which I get a little extra of on its own. There is sweetness but not much bitterness to this.
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look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Dark, light, minimal head.
Some fizzy bubbles surface and dance on the tongue.
I get chocolate, but also some licorice and/or alfalfa, which I suppose is the work of the yeast, which I get a little extra of on its own. There is sweetness but not much bitterness to this.
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4.93/5 rDev +21.7%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
3.75/5 rDev -7.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.75
L: black in the glass with no head
S: very faint bakers chocolate. Not much in the nose at all
T: wow,big bakers chocolate. But it fades fast, wish there was others chocolate notes or roasted notes. Straightforward, one flavor, it's decent.
F: very thin, and flavors fade fast
O: glad I got a single in a mix a six.
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look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.75
L: black in the glass with no head
S: very faint bakers chocolate. Not much in the nose at all
T: wow,big bakers chocolate. But it fades fast, wish there was others chocolate notes or roasted notes. Straightforward, one flavor, it's decent.
F: very thin, and flavors fade fast
O: glad I got a single in a mix a six.
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Box Of Chocolate from Charleville Vineyard Microbrewery
4.05
out of 5
based on 303 ratings.
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...
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