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Chocolate Blossom
Mill Street Brew Pub
- From:
- Mill Street Brew Pub
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Stout
- ABV:
- 6.8%
- Score:
- Needs more ratings
- Avg:
- 3.45 | pDev: 9.86%
- Reviews:
- 3
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 24, 2021
- Added:
- Sep 27, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 2
No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by taxandbeerguy from Canada (ON)
3.72/5 rDev +7.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
3.72/5 rDev +7.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
Review from notes. Rebranded as Chocolate Cherry Stout. LCBO purchase for $3.95CDN.
Appearance - Pours a near black beer with close to two fingers of deep tan head. Good staying power.
Smell - Lots of dark chocolate, some milk chocolate and quite a bit of sweet cherries. Fairly intense aromatics.
Taste - Plenty of chocolate, some dark and more milk chocolate with sweet cherries following that up. Plenty of roasted goodness in the aftertaste to make things bitter after the initial sweetness.
Mouthfeel - Lacking carbonation and a bit thin give the flavor profiles, something a little creamier or fuller could have added a lot to it.
Overall - Pretty decent seasonal brew, I think there may have been a few improvements since it's original release based on the scores here.
Oct 24, 2021Appearance - Pours a near black beer with close to two fingers of deep tan head. Good staying power.
Smell - Lots of dark chocolate, some milk chocolate and quite a bit of sweet cherries. Fairly intense aromatics.
Taste - Plenty of chocolate, some dark and more milk chocolate with sweet cherries following that up. Plenty of roasted goodness in the aftertaste to make things bitter after the initial sweetness.
Mouthfeel - Lacking carbonation and a bit thin give the flavor profiles, something a little creamier or fuller could have added a lot to it.
Overall - Pretty decent seasonal brew, I think there may have been a few improvements since it's original release based on the scores here.
Rated by GingerFinn from Canada (ON)
3.38/5 rDev -2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.38/5 rDev -2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Good stout, but not quite enough chocolate or cherry flavour to live up to the promise.
Nov 10, 2019Rated by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
3.5/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev +1.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
September 28 2019
Sep 28, 2019Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.55/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.55/5 rDev +2.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
473 mL can purchased from the LCBO; dated Sept 20 2018 and served slightly chilled. The last of several cans that I picked up months ago (this past autumn).
Pours a deep, dark black chestnut colour, capped with 1 cm of loose, frothy, dark tan-tinted head that wilts away within minutes; a thin collar is the only remaining sign of its fleeting existence. No cap, no lace - looks a bit plain to me. On the nose, I'm getting roasted malts and brown sugar, with hints of coffee grounds, dark chocolate and cherry-flavoured red licorice candy. About what I'd expect from a Mill Street "chocolate cherry stout": exactly what it says, nothing more, nothing less.
A decent stout, but that's the long and short of it. It tastes mainly of malts, both roasted and not - caramelized sugars are the biggest flavour for me, with lesser notes of coffee grounds also coming through alongside the cocoa. The cherry presence is fairly subtle - mostly sweet, with minimal tartness - blending in nicely with the dark malt-dominated flavour profile. The back end remains sweet through to the end, the sugars interrupted only intermittently by slight hints of roasted coffee grounds; chocolatey aftertaste with light booziness and some metallicity. Light-medium in body, with middling carbonation levels that firmly prickle the palate, resulting in a relatively crisp texture for the style. I'd have preferred a smoother feel given the theme, but it works well enough.
Final Grade: 3.55, a B grade. Only one other review after five months? Chocolate Blossom must've seen a pretty limited release (at least, by this brewer's ubiquitous standards) - either that, or BA users are just sick of reviewing Mill Street products. This one was better than their Vanilla Porter I guess, but it's still too sweet and uninteresting to be worth returning to on a regular basis - I'd take Cobblestone over this one without thinking twice - to say nothing of the various (year-round) Ontario-brewed craft stouts and porters that blow this one out of the water.
Feb 24, 2019Pours a deep, dark black chestnut colour, capped with 1 cm of loose, frothy, dark tan-tinted head that wilts away within minutes; a thin collar is the only remaining sign of its fleeting existence. No cap, no lace - looks a bit plain to me. On the nose, I'm getting roasted malts and brown sugar, with hints of coffee grounds, dark chocolate and cherry-flavoured red licorice candy. About what I'd expect from a Mill Street "chocolate cherry stout": exactly what it says, nothing more, nothing less.
A decent stout, but that's the long and short of it. It tastes mainly of malts, both roasted and not - caramelized sugars are the biggest flavour for me, with lesser notes of coffee grounds also coming through alongside the cocoa. The cherry presence is fairly subtle - mostly sweet, with minimal tartness - blending in nicely with the dark malt-dominated flavour profile. The back end remains sweet through to the end, the sugars interrupted only intermittently by slight hints of roasted coffee grounds; chocolatey aftertaste with light booziness and some metallicity. Light-medium in body, with middling carbonation levels that firmly prickle the palate, resulting in a relatively crisp texture for the style. I'd have preferred a smoother feel given the theme, but it works well enough.
Final Grade: 3.55, a B grade. Only one other review after five months? Chocolate Blossom must've seen a pretty limited release (at least, by this brewer's ubiquitous standards) - either that, or BA users are just sick of reviewing Mill Street products. This one was better than their Vanilla Porter I guess, but it's still too sweet and uninteresting to be worth returning to on a regular basis - I'd take Cobblestone over this one without thinking twice - to say nothing of the various (year-round) Ontario-brewed craft stouts and porters that blow this one out of the water.
Reviewed by Jesterr44 from Canada (ON)
3.79/5 rDev +9.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev +9.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
I've become wary of flavoured beer as there are too many out there which over do it with the additions. This one pours dark brown with an active mocha head which fades relatively quickly to a thin patchy sheet. Little lacing remains during drinking. Aroma is of subtle dark roasted malts and cherry. Taste follows with the heart of his beer being its dark roasted malt, and the cherry & chocolate are not overdone, but rather a cherry sweetness adds lightly but pleasantly to each sip. Overall I enjoyed this quite nicely, but I still prefer a good traditional or oatmeal stout.
Oct 08, 2018
Chocolate Blossom from Mill Street Brew Pub
Beer rating:
3.45 out of
5 with
6 ratings
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