Hop Cocoa
Wicked Weed Brewing in Candler, North Carolina, United States 🇺🇸
Porter - Pastry / Flavoured Regular|
Score
6.61
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We crafted Hop Cocoa to be a smooth porter that packs a potent chocolate punch into every sip. Roasted cocoa nibs combine with bright, citrusy hops to create a silky-smooth balance of bright hops and indulgent chocolate.
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7/10
Canned. Pours v dark brown with beige lacing. Aroma is malt, chocolate, some bit of hops. Mostly sweet.
Tried
from Can
on 20 May 2025
at 01:51
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Roast and some dark chocolate. Black pour with decent head. Some caramel. Nice mix, and easy drinking Porter. Can.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Mar 2020
at 01:06
5/10
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Nov 2019
at 14:31
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 2
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Date bottled November 7th 2016 so I will be as kind as I can.
Pours black with an inch of off white foam.
The smell has good notes of dark chocolate and cocoa. Some sweetness but mostly bitterness.
Taste really suffers from the aging. Bitter chocolate, whatever is left of the hops comes across as astringent. No sweetness that I mentioned in the smell. Old and tired is how I would describe the whole experience.
Pours black with an inch of off white foam.
The smell has good notes of dark chocolate and cocoa. Some sweetness but mostly bitterness.
Taste really suffers from the aging. Bitter chocolate, whatever is left of the hops comes across as astringent. No sweetness that I mentioned in the smell. Old and tired is how I would describe the whole experience.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Jul 2019
at 23:26
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Deep dark brown coloured body with a thinnish tan head, only a centimetre or so tall. Aroma of roasted malt, light chocolate, a touch of raisins and prunes with a dose of mild coffee and more assertive burnt malts along with a touch of lactose at the end in the nose. Medium-bodied; Assertive malty flavours that show a faint bit of earthy and mushroom qualities along with a light chocolate and pitted fruit flavour towards the end that have a little bitterness and a hit of alcohol and deep robust oatmeal and grainy quality towards the end. Aftertaste is focused squarely on the chocolate and earthy malt flavours with a light touch of vanilla and lactose to round on the flavours, but the malt is the strongest along with some mild baking chocolate with a lot of bitterness at the tail end. Overall, a good enough beer that shows the qualities you'd expect from the style, but nothing overtly supreme or worth searching out for - especially not the name on the can. I sampled this twelve ounce can purchased from Harris Teeter in Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia on 04-December-2018 for US$1,83 sampled at home in Washington on 18-March-2019.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Mar 2019
at 05:46
1/10
On draft at Pangea Tavern in Avon it is a dark cola color with a thick tan head. The aroma is chocolate. And the taste is bitter roast coffee and milk chocolate
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Nov 2018
at 18:24
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
The aromas are very roasty with a little bit of cocoa and black patent. Flavors are a lot like nose with not much cocoa, bittersweet good carbonation and body and a little bit more cocoa in the Finish.
Tried
on 29 Nov 2018
at 06:33
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
On draft at Pangea Tavern in Avon. Pours a clear dark cola with a thick tan head. Aromas of chocolate. Flavors are bitter roast and hops. Nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Nov 2018
at 23:33
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can from Wine Warehouse. Pours black with a soft, large beige-to-tan head. Aroma is chocolate, baby poop, cocoa, something fruity. Flavor is rich cocoa, chocolate, coffee beans, a bit of char,. Pretty good.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Nov 2018
at 21:54
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Can: Charcoal and dark chocolate nose. Black, medium tan. Charred oak, woody. Medium body, easy carbonation. Not a lot of cocoa.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Oct 2018
at 22:35