Fannie’s Chocolate Cake BBA Stout
Lake Effect Brewing Co.

12 ounce bottle into a snifter. 2020 edition. Had 7/27/21.

Pours near black and opaque, with a quarter inch foamy head and a ring of foam that follows down the glass. Aromas of bourbon, roasted malt, oak, chocolate, char, some tobacco and molasses, caramel as it warms. The flavors are expanded- bourbon, chocolate, roasted malt, vanilla, some oak and tobacco, some raisins, light molasses, caramel when fully warmed. Smooth, a good full body, appropriately carbonated.

Great aroma, solid barrels, not that much chocolate- I’ll take a slice of the cake on the side next time. Lots of smells and tastes, this pulls together well. Very enjoyable.

12 oz. can from the brewery. Two fingers of dark mocha foam that fade quickly to a still glassy surface, likely due to the high abv.

Aroma is chocolatey and boozy, as advertised I guess. Cocoa, hot chocolate, fudge laced with Jim Beam.

Tastes pretty boozy, spirit character decimates the stout, ends up tasting like a squirt of chocolate syrup in a shot of whiskey. Just numbs the palate. Thin bodied due to the booze, definitely boozy and unbalanced. Hard to finish this honestly, and I had the best intentions. Oh well, can’t win ‘em all.

2020-12-27
500ml bottle served in a pair of big snifters. Only date on it appears to be the year, 2020. Probably got it on Tavour.

Pours black, little head or carbonation. Smell is dark roast coffee and dark chocolate. Anise. Some alcohol.

Taste is chocolate, maybe with a little hint of cherry, light vanilla, somewhat boozy. Roast bitterness balances out moderate to high sweetness.

Mouthfeel is medium, dry. Overall, nice beer. Makes me think a little of chocolate cake, and is still enjoyable as a beer and not a bottle of syrup.

This beer might kill me, since I’m popping it at 11:59 on a Friday night when I should be comfortably in bed. Especially at my age. 500ML bottle.

Blck. The nose is bourbon, chocolate. Sweet.

Fannie’s Chocolate Cake – Bourbon Barrel Aged is boooozy. Alcohol hits the brain like a double shot of Spirytus. Chocolate. Bourbon. Future hangover.

Simple. Easy. Straightforward. While there is no hint of chocolate cake here, it’s a good, solid barrel aged stout.

 

Ordered from Tavour. Poured into a sniffer (twice... left enough room to smell and so we poured a half pint each time).

Look: Deep and dark, almost black. No discernible head on the pour. No lacing or clingy sugars on the glass as we drank it.
Smell: BOOZE, sweet, sweet dark chocolate flavors. Bourbon-ish notes.
Taste: Bourbon, booze, if you reach chocolate. If you get really tipsy you MIGHT get some chocolate cake. There is no real lactose smoothness or maltiness that usually goes with something cake(y).
Feel: Yeah so this one is interesting because it is a BBS, but the boozy gives a bit a dry note on the end (leaves your tongue feeling like it needs to drink some more). Typical of a heavy stout it is not thick or thin, but right in between. There is little carbonation that sticks around as it warms.

I will pre-empt this statement with this: "we LOVE dark beers" and this one in particular was not quite as advertised (chocolate cake stout). We got no lactose in the mouthfeel or flavor. It is a beautiful beer if you like darks like we do, but some brews hide their 11% ABV, this one for us didn't, but that is part of it being a BBS I guess. When we got it we were hoping for chocolate cake, what we got was chocolate cake if you were hammered.