Chocolate Stout
Daleside Brewery

500 ml bottle, bought in Scarborough. ABV is 4.0%. Pitch black colour, large brown head. Aroma of cocoa and coffee, hints of tar, wood and leather. Creamy mouthfeel. The flavour is dominated by cocoa / chocolate, also notes of coffee, brown bread and burnt caramel, a little fruit too. Pretty good.

Brown 500ml bottle, purple label, can't find a best before date.

Poured into a Frankenheim Alt glass twice.

If there is a darker beer out there, I haven't seen it, dense and black, with a small bubbled rich light brown foaming head.

Very strong burnt malt aroma, dark chocolate and treacle smells add to the malt, which gives the beer an over cooked chocolate cake aroma.

This beer is what it claims it is, a smooth and creamy Chocolate Stout.

This is what lets the beer down a little, it is watery for such a heavy looking and smelling stout.

I enjoyed this beer, a pity about the mouthfeel, but drank with some Belgian chocolates made with beer (as bought at the Zythos fest), which I did with the second bottle, it stood up very well.