The Wolfgang Chocolate Lager
Mudhook Brewing Company
- From:
- Mudhook Brewing Company
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Style:
- European Dark Lager
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.87 | pDev: 2.58%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jul 13, 2014
- Added:
- Jun 04, 2012
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Reviewed by Kegatron from Pennsylvania
3.85/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.85/5 rDev -0.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
On tap @ the Mudhook Brewing Company (York, PA) on 6/1/12. Served in a pint glass. This is a Lager brewed with chocolate from the nearby Wolfgang Candy.
Pours a deep ruddy brown with a thin off-white head. This retains with some foamy ringing, leaving back some light spotty lacing. Cocoa accents jump right out in the aroma, with a touch of tangier caramel and some earthy citric hops to give a ripe flavorful twang in the nose. This seems like it could be a touch more robust.
The taste has a nice chocolate flavor to it but thankfully isn’t coming off as overly sweet either, thanks to a firm dose of earthy hops which keep things in balance. Malty notes of caramel and toast actually add a lot of the sweetness to this across the back, keeping the chocolate at the central focus of this. Those hops lend this a nice crispness, leaving this with some lingering dry bitterness. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with a prickly feel up front but then spreads out into more of a sharp creaminess across the back. Overall, this is lively in the mouth with a tight and clean feel to it.
Chocolate additions in beer can be tricky but I thought that it was pulled off here pretty nicely, with the chocolate merely adding flavor to this and allowing the base malts to carry a lot of the sweetness. The hops gave this a crisp balancing presence that kept this lively and drinkable in the mouth. This is one of the better beers that I’ve had from here.
Jun 04, 2012Pours a deep ruddy brown with a thin off-white head. This retains with some foamy ringing, leaving back some light spotty lacing. Cocoa accents jump right out in the aroma, with a touch of tangier caramel and some earthy citric hops to give a ripe flavorful twang in the nose. This seems like it could be a touch more robust.
The taste has a nice chocolate flavor to it but thankfully isn’t coming off as overly sweet either, thanks to a firm dose of earthy hops which keep things in balance. Malty notes of caramel and toast actually add a lot of the sweetness to this across the back, keeping the chocolate at the central focus of this. Those hops lend this a nice crispness, leaving this with some lingering dry bitterness. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with a prickly feel up front but then spreads out into more of a sharp creaminess across the back. Overall, this is lively in the mouth with a tight and clean feel to it.
Chocolate additions in beer can be tricky but I thought that it was pulled off here pretty nicely, with the chocolate merely adding flavor to this and allowing the base malts to carry a lot of the sweetness. The hops gave this a crisp balancing presence that kept this lively and drinkable in the mouth. This is one of the better beers that I’ve had from here.
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