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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7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle from Brewdog, Leeds. Just as I’m about to write how this beer is full of coffee and cocoa, I realise I had a rubbish nights sleep, after drinking this last off! That’ll explain that then... worth it though..
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Aug 2013
at 06:18
9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9
Black. Dark black (if there is such a thing). Here be dragons...
The aroma is subtle cooking chocolate. The taste is bittersweet is a pure alcohol haze. Full and syrupy on the palette. A wonderful experience.
The aroma is subtle cooking chocolate. The taste is bittersweet is a pure alcohol haze. Full and syrupy on the palette. A wonderful experience.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Aug 2013
at 23:00
8.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle from brewdog.com.Almost black color with medium beige head. Strong aroma of cocoa, together with dark chocolate, hints of dark fruits. Strong chocolate taste with roasted malt, espresso, vanilla, ash, wood. Coffee bitter finish. Very tasty beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2013
at 15:05
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Medium dark brown head. Opaque black body. Earthy roasty coffee aroma with minty cocoa and resin notes. Dry-sweet resiny earthy roasty taste with alcoholic raisiny dark chocolate notes. Full-bodied. Soft, rounded, slightly hot, slightly mealy mouthfeel. Dryish resiny minty dark chocolate aftertaste with mealy coffee notes. Nice, drinkable, harmonic. A good beer. (0.33l bottle, wine monopoly, Vika, Oslo.)
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Aug 2013
at 10:56
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Prototype bottle from Brew dog shop. Nigh on black pour with a muddy brown head. Nose of dark malts, booze and choc. The cocoa and coffee comes right atcha’ in the flavour. Slipped down very smoothly. Tasty beer. Dug it..
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Aug 2013
at 14:12
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
330ml bottle. Pitch black colour with small to average, firm, creamy, half-way lasting, moderately lacing, dark brown head. Rich, moderately sweet dark malty aroma has notes of treacle, coffee, cocoa, dark and milk chocolate, hints of vanilla, oaky background-ish overtones, hop tributes a spicy green onion touch. Taste is dry to bitter and minimally tart, notes of oak, leather, roast, roasty dark malty basis, bitter chocolate, coffee. Relatively active, present, prickling carbonation for an Impy Stout, lasting bitter finish combines bitter hop and bitter, roasty, burnt malt; oily texture, sticky palate. Very rich and complex, oscillating with every sip
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Aug 2013
at 16:17
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft @ CBC 2013. Pours a black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty bitter chocolate and weak coffee aroma. Roasted malty chocolate and cocoa powder flavor. Has a roasted malty bitter chocolate and coffee finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Jul 2013
at 07:09
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
On tap at BrewDog Stockholm. Black with a thick, creamy tan head. A lot of dark chocolate and roasted malt in this one. Also espresso, some oak, vanilla and light notes of "earth". Thick with a long aftertaste. A tasty one.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Jul 2013
at 00:35
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
beautiful appearance of almost black colour and 2 inch dark brown head (which disappear in some minutes leaving back a brown layer); aroma and taste of roasted malt, coffee, chocolate and some alcohol; really good stout.
Tried
on 28 Jun 2013
at 12:15