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Double Chocolate Stout
The Fort Collins Brewery
- From:
- The Fort Collins Brewery
- Colorado, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
- ABV:
- 8.5%
- Score:
- 83
- Avg:
- 3.65 | pDev: 13.42%
- Reviews:
- 202
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Aug 26, 2020
- Added:
- Jan 30, 2008
- Wants:
- 16
- Gots:
- 33
No description / notes.
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Ratings by brewintheLou:
Reviewed by brewintheLou from Missouri
3.15/5 rDev -13.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5
3.15/5 rDev -13.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours almost black with a tannish head that leaves slight lacing down the glass.
Smell is very strong chocolate.
Taste of chocolate is a kick in the face on the first drink. After the strong mocha chocolate flavor there is a little bitterness and the it just ends. There is no after taste with this one. Mouthfeel is a little chewy at first, but just like the taste it is quickly gone and finishes off, very oddly, thin. Although the taste and mouthfeel disappear with this one, it is something I would drink again, but I would not go out in search of this one.
Jan 13, 2009Smell is very strong chocolate.
Taste of chocolate is a kick in the face on the first drink. After the strong mocha chocolate flavor there is a little bitterness and the it just ends. There is no after taste with this one. Mouthfeel is a little chewy at first, but just like the taste it is quickly gone and finishes off, very oddly, thin. Although the taste and mouthfeel disappear with this one, it is something I would drink again, but I would not go out in search of this one.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by johnnnniee from New Hampshire
3.75/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Older bottle from the cellar.
Solid black with a thin tightly bubbled tan head that shows moderate retention. Roasty and rich chocolate aroma and flavor.
Aug 26, 2020Solid black with a thin tightly bubbled tan head that shows moderate retention. Roasty and rich chocolate aroma and flavor.
Reviewed by basaywhat from Illinois
3.79/5 rDev +3.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev +3.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
12 oz bottle. Pours black with small dark brown highlights and nice medium brown head. Creamy, low carbonation, and good lacing. Taste is chocolate, some coffee. Very good beer.
May 08, 2016Reviewed by q33jeff from New Jersey
3.79/5 rDev +3.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
3.79/5 rDev +3.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
**
01/22/2013
AROMA: Toasted Malt, chocolate. LOOK: Creamy Tan head over a dark black pour. TASTE: Dark Chocolate…raisin. Slight sour late. FEEL: A tad thin for a stout. Growler pour from Joe Canals…..they were out of Founders Breakfast Stout AGAIN. Beer has quite a kick. Maybe should be called "Imperial Double Chocolate Stout.
**
Apr 06, 201601/22/2013
AROMA: Toasted Malt, chocolate. LOOK: Creamy Tan head over a dark black pour. TASTE: Dark Chocolate…raisin. Slight sour late. FEEL: A tad thin for a stout. Growler pour from Joe Canals…..they were out of Founders Breakfast Stout AGAIN. Beer has quite a kick. Maybe should be called "Imperial Double Chocolate Stout.
**
Reviewed by Stevem68 from Ohio
3.78/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.78/5 rDev +3.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours a dark chocolate color. Has a sweet aroma with notes of chocolate. Flavor is some chocolate with a bit of a heavy sweet syrup taste. Leaves a little bit of a light aftertaste. Overall not bad but definitely needs more refinement.
Jan 12, 2016Reviewed by Libeertarian from Montana
4.07/5 rDev +11.5%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.07/5 rDev +11.5%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Black and opaque, cola-like around the very edges. Seems thick, with fine, filmy, desert mud colored head, not very thick, but retaining well. Smells a little earthy and roasty, coffee more than cocoa, but more grainy than anything. With faint but fake banana-like alcohols/esters, even fainter toffee notes, and substantial boozy and metallic suggestions. Taste is a kick in the teeth. A strange, perhaps overwrought medley of flavor, like a very dark Belgian with too much roastiness and hops but not enough vinegar or alcohol. Sweetish throughout, almost nondescript but similar to the fake banana as described in aroma. A little chocolate and toffee, but decent grain, smoke, and coffee flavors splashing up as it ebbs and flows around the palate. Harsher booze may seem slightly hidden by these sweet and robust qualities, and the carbonation, but it soon comes into its own in the occasional heat or pepper breath while drinking and a mild, lingering warmth after each swallow, building up in mouth as the beer level goes down in glass. Earthy, roasty, and herbal aftertaste. Body is medium or thereabouts, syrupy with suds that aren't too aggressive, only slightly tingly at first before mellowing to almost cream. And as mentioned, at least some warming effects from alcohol. Honestly, it could stand to be more astringent than it is. Not a top shelf Imperial Stout (although I'll likely end up overrating it compared to most), but quite good nonetheless.
Dec 31, 2015Reviewed by Dragginballs76 from South Carolina
3.59/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.59/5 rDev -1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours pitch black very thin tan head that leaves quickly. You can smell the coffee and some chocolate aroma slight oak smell. Taste is a little odd something there I cant put my finger on on the back end, taste of coffee and chocolate little smoke maybe what ever the back end taste is not very good. The after taste causes the feel to be off as well almost taste like its over carbonated maybe? Overall not a beer I liked much or would have again.
Dec 06, 2015
Double Chocolate Stout from The Fort Collins Brewery
Beer rating:
83 out of
100 with
416 ratings
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