Organic Chocolate Stout
Samuel Smith Old Brewery (Tadcaster)

This is a phenomenal beer. There's just the right amount of chocolate and it isn't too overpowering or sweet. It's not overly thick and the consistency is perfect. It's hardly bitter. This beer is super smooth and delicious. Not just a dessert beer but make hell of a good one if you're so inclined.

Never had a chocolate stout that compares. Long time top few beers

Great beer, shaved just a little off because the lack of head development. More of a can thing than the beer itself.

 

 

I got this at a different liqour store then my usual for craft this beer was amazing this beer changed my life i have had alot of beers in the stout variety on my beer journey this beer changed my life it is the greatest stout i've ever have everything about it hits right it smells right kind of smells like the chocolate milk you pay 40 cents in school and it tastes so complex yet so right i love it its great buy this beer i am going to buy it again

 

 

Look: dark/black, tan creamy head, very good lacing
Smell: choco, choco, choco
Taste: milk chocolate with some cherry flavor
Feel: med body, moderate carbo, creamy
Overall: 5% abv. Tasting like chocolate beer milk. Kinda like if you mixed a beer with a Yoo-Hoo. I call it a Brew-Hoo. Not really my cup of tea but I got thru it with some good jams. A pairing with Another Day by Fastway helped me choke her down. Movin' on, Cheers!

 

Deep brown pour with a moderate head that dissipates quickly. The smell is of dark chocolate and malt, and the taste is chocolate that has more sweetness than I expected. Thin texture, but a delightful stout without too much alcohol. One of my favorite “non-boozy” stouts.

A moderate through-the-head pour released three fingers of tan creamy foam with very long retention plus webs of lacing and a thick ring and cap. Dark chocolate body, clear with ruby/amber highlights.

Milk chocolate greets the nose, bready malt (dark bread, toast and yeasty dough) follows. Faint floral hops and confectionery sugar balance with coffee, toffee and caramel.

Semi-sweet with low hop flavor and bitterness at first. Coffee, toffee and caramel combine to equal the chocolate. Roasted nuts appear and malt rises during the middle and add more balance to the previous flavors. Bitterness and hop flavor rise to a tad above average. The finish is long with the chocolate dropping off first, caramel and roasted coffee beans linger with a surprise late hit of hops plus spice.

Medium-full bodied with above average carbonation, smooth and balanced almost to a fault. Alcohol is very well hidden and it improves greatly from warming. A certain revisit.

A nicely dark amber color as it pours, settling into a dark brown almost the color of the bottle, with about 2F of head. Poured into a stein glass, the head thinned down to about half a finger by the end, but didn’t fully dissolve, thankfully.

Very enticing smell, sharp but with an understated sweet note.

Mellow but full-bodied, which had me finishing off half of it in short order, almost without realizing it. Slowed down to appreciate the rest of it with more focus. A very nice range of flavor, with the more bitter high notes balanced out by the more dominant deep, dark chocolate base. A bit of a jump in aftertaste if drank at regular speed, though.

Full and surprisingly bright, with just a touch of thickness on the tongue, which works very well for the flavors.

A pleasure to drink, on every front. Chilled in the fridge for about half an hour before pouring, no food accompaniment. A little lighter than I expected, but that slight undercutting lets the more delicate flavors be more evident and appreciable. Looking forward to sitting down with my next bottle of this chocolate stout.

Expiration date on 12 oz. bottle: October 31, 2027

Poursnearly opaque from a one pint two point seven fluid ounce bottle 550 ml It's labeled as USDA organic.


Smell It smells exactly like chocolate syrup... I can imagine some malt .
sweetness backing it and likely as the label says oatmeal... Water from the original l758 chocolate malt and organic cocoa traditional copper kettles...

As indicated on the label or process includes open fermentation...
As indicated malt beverage with flavors added


Best before April of 2027 so it looks like we've got 14 months left on this beer...

I don't know why I didn't love it but it sure slowed me down...

I don't automatically value high alcohol content in my beer I'm really want to go for taste This one's fairly complex but just kind of blows me away DNF did not finish That's a shame too because like we're a 550 ml dumping Just under half a liter... sad... Sorry this one's not for me...


It only 5% alcohol there's just two damn much complexity going on there This should be drink bullet but it's not...
I mean it drinks like a 12% ABV...
Hideous not refreshing.... It's just damn hard to drink

Down the drain

Actually pretty damn good a surprisingly so actually. I can’t believe I have never tried this beer before. A nice balance of stout and chocolate - not overly sweet like it’s trying to hard. I appreciate that. I actually think the marketing may be hurting this one, just call it a chocolate stout, leave organic out of it.

Copenhagen 29/5 2017. 55 cl bottle from SuperBrugsen. Cocoa beans on the label to communicate that these guys take the "Chocolate" in the name seriously.

Pours clear deep brown maroon with a red hue and light beige head. Settles as thin layer of beige foam barely covering the surface. Moderate lacing.

Aroma is intensely sweet. Milk chocolate, sugar and light hints of vanilla.

Soft yet prickly carbonation and medium thick palate.

Flavor is intensely sweet. Only very light bitterness. Aftertaste is sweet chocolate. On the verge of being cloying.

The good news is that this beer actually tastes of chocolate. The bad news that it is not chocolate of the good, dark and bitter variety.

I have not had too many chocolate stouts. However this was quite tasty.