Cocoa Psycho
BrewDog in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 🏴
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.71
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Welcome to the world of Cocoa Psycho, a liquid dimension where pure indulgence reigns.
This Imperial Stout borrows from the voluptuary decadence of 18th Century Russia, with its extravagantly smooth blend of crushed coffee beans, cacao nibs and dark malts.
Dig past the infusions of vanilla pods and toasted oak chips and eventually you’ll come face to face with the madness required to make this beer: a kind of depraved logic that would make Rasputin himself proud.
To fully unleash the aromas and bittersweet luxury of this stout we recommend drinking it from a stemmed beer glass before taking a sledgehammer to a Faberge egg.
Malts: Extra Pale, Wheat, Cara, Smoked, Black and Roasted Barley
Hops: Cascade, Fuggles and Goldings
This Imperial Stout borrows from the voluptuary decadence of 18th Century Russia, with its extravagantly smooth blend of crushed coffee beans, cacao nibs and dark malts.
Dig past the infusions of vanilla pods and toasted oak chips and eventually you’ll come face to face with the madness required to make this beer: a kind of depraved logic that would make Rasputin himself proud.
To fully unleash the aromas and bittersweet luxury of this stout we recommend drinking it from a stemmed beer glass before taking a sledgehammer to a Faberge egg.
Malts: Extra Pale, Wheat, Cara, Smoked, Black and Roasted Barley
Hops: Cascade, Fuggles and Goldings
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8.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle @ home. Pitch black, oily colour with a beautiful, large sized, dark brown head. Perfect colour. Smells sweet, chocolate, roasty, some coffee.. Very nice. Tastes sweet, chocolate, very roasty, some coffee. Lovely deep taste, full body, soft carbo, slightly silky. Great brew!
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Oct 2013
at 12:26
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
On tap at Beer Temple. Pours black with a very dark chocolate brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a creamy dark chocolate note with dark grains and a hint of roasted malt. Flavor has creamy chocolate with some roasted malts, dark grains and a hint of anise in the finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 20 Oct 2013
at 13:19
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Spurs - Troms’ - Europa League elite tasting September 2013. Dark black (!) with a firm little brown head. Aroma of chocolate and coffee, with quite a bit of meaty smoke, and some fruit. Sweet, thick flavour of roasted malt, chocolate, cocoa powder, cold coffee, and sugar
Tried
on 19 Sep 2013
at 12:39
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ Standard Liege- Esbjerg, Europa League. Pours pitch black with a creamy beige head. Roasted - almost burnt malts, with coffee, chocolate and wood. Quite some vanilla and charcoal. Smooth and full bodied. A no bullshit beer from Brewdog. They sometimes brew good beer!
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Sep 2013
at 12:35
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle from Brewdog online shop. Pours blacker than you think black can be with the darkest brown head I’ve seen on a beer. Smells of alcohol and chocolate. The mouthfeel is thick and oily at first with a light fizz but becomes a bit chalky. The initial flavour is raw alcohol with lightly charred wood and cocoa powder. It takes a long time for more flavours to fight their way past the alchol burn, but eventually some vanilla, tobacco smoke and chocolate did escape. I’ve never known a Brewdog beer to have such undisguised alcohol, even in their much stronger beers; it makes it taste unfinished and amateurish. Can’t help feeling that this was yet another of their beers that would have been much better on cask- their keg-only stance does seem daft sometimes. The beer does improve by the end but it’s still well below Brewdog’s normal standards.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Sep 2013
at 16:04
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
13th January 2013
Opaque black beer, small dark tan head. Slightly soft palate with mild minerals. Rich dark malt with bitter dark chocolate. Mild malt cream. Dry finish with a mild malty bitter linger. One dimensional.
Opaque black beer, small dark tan head. Slightly soft palate with mild minerals. Rich dark malt with bitter dark chocolate. Mild malt cream. Dry finish with a mild malty bitter linger. One dimensional.
Tried
on 14 Sep 2013
at 04:15
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
04.05.2013, tap @ CBC:
Lett fyldig og tørr lukt med preg av mørk malt, humle, sterk lakris, kakao, chili, kaffi, mørke bær, høy, litt alkohol. Frisk lett tørr smak med preg av mørk malt, humle, mild chili, kakao, brent kaffi, sterk lakris, askebeger, tre, gras, mørke bær. God bitterhet som set godt, lett uttørrande munnfølelse. Veldig god.
Lett fyldig og tørr lukt med preg av mørk malt, humle, sterk lakris, kakao, chili, kaffi, mørke bær, høy, litt alkohol. Frisk lett tørr smak med preg av mørk malt, humle, mild chili, kakao, brent kaffi, sterk lakris, askebeger, tre, gras, mørke bær. God bitterhet som set godt, lett uttørrande munnfølelse. Veldig god.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Sep 2013
at 09:09