Chocolate Donut Stout
Shenandoah Brewing Company in Alexandria, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.90
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A double chocolate stout -- made using chocolate malts and actual chocolate -- with essence of donut added by top-secret method.
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6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
23rd January 2010
Opaque dark brown beer. Frothy short lived brown head. Sourish malt nose. Crispy palate, a litlle dry. Sourish beer! Quite fruity with mildly sour cherry, raspberry and others amalgamating to a generic fruitiness. Playing a poor second fiddle is a little chocolate malt. Finishes with more sourness. Decent beer but a chocolate donut stout? Really not!
Opaque dark brown beer. Frothy short lived brown head. Sourish malt nose. Crispy palate, a litlle dry. Sourish beer! Quite fruity with mildly sour cherry, raspberry and others amalgamating to a generic fruitiness. Playing a poor second fiddle is a little chocolate malt. Finishes with more sourness. Decent beer but a chocolate donut stout? Really not!
Tried
on 05 Jun 2012
at 11:12
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pours black with a tan head. Nose of icing, funk and chocolate. Taste is chocolate, bread and a funky orange dough.
Tried
on 30 Jul 2010
at 11:51
2.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 2
Overall 1.5
Bottle: Poured a dirty deep brown cloudy ale with a super large bubbly head with average retention. Aroma of sour chocolate malt is quite disgusting. Taste is also a disgusting mix between some unrefined roasted malt with lingering sweetness. Body is quite thin with great carbonation which is probably due to the infection. Too bad this was so infected because I kind of was looking forward to the concept. Another one to add tot he re-rate list I guess.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2009
at 19:53
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12 oz bottle from dkachur! Thanks! Nose of chocolate, oats, and bready yeast. Black with brown edges and a big tan head. Flavor is sweet milk chocolate and a doughnuty cake. It does tatse like a chocolate doughnut in many ways. I like it!
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Dec 2009
at 17:10
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
12 ounce bottle from the brewery, though props to goryskewych who also sent me a bottle that I looked for but can’t find right now. Pours a dark brown color with a thin tan head. Fair head retention and lacing. Aroma of chocolate, butter and something a bit odd. Taste is cocoa powder, caramel, bread and faint fruitiness. Medium bodied. The flavors and aromas are a bit overwhelming and blend very oddly. Weird.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2009
at 21:20
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle Thanks Jake Pours out a dark brown topped with a glaze maple bar head. Aroma was of chocolate and some roast. Tast was more chocolate and tons of sweetness. This one lived up to the lable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Feb 2009
at 22:33
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle: Deep brown pour with a modest tan head. Aroma is sweet and chocolate over a light roasted malt base. Plenty of sweet. Tastes chocolatey sweet with light roast and plenty of sugar. It does seemingly have that frosted donut taste! Quite the novelty (I’d been wanting to try thius ever since I learned of it’s existence) and I must thank nimbleprop for sending this my way.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2009
at 18:51
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pitch black coloured body with a nice tan head, almost 100% opaque. Aroma of - you guessed it - Chocolate Donuts! Such a wierd scent for a beer - but this one is spot on! Full-bodied; Strong sweet taste up front of choolate with a completely describable donut flavour as well. Malt and roasted sugars are also noticable with a bunch of coffee thrown in too. Aftertaste is very sweet and very donut-like. Overall, just like the name says and not really a gimmick-beer, just a good sweet stout that was amazing to try. I’d definitely have this one again if I could find it! I sampled this beer on draught as a sampler at the Shirlington Oktoberfest in Arlington, Virginia on 07 October 2006.
Tried
on 17 Jan 2009
at 22:28
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Odd bottle thanks to mar at bu11zeye’s place. Pours with a small, off-white head and a dark brown body. Very wierd beer. Aroma of marmite, yeast, chocolate, and dough. Taste is very wieerd with berries, chocolate and dough. Slightly fizzy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Oct 2008
at 13:44
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 9
12oz bottle...think I had a double chocolate stout bottle from them a few years back, assumably the same beer. I find this to be one of Shenandoah’s better offerings. Rich and smooth, medium bodied. Very creamy stuff, with a pleasant non-artificial chocolate flavor. Really gets bonus points from me for being so exceptionally balanced and drinkable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Sep 2008
at 22:14