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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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled at CBC 2013. Opaque, pitch black color, small tan head. Smell malts, roasted malts, and loads of cocoa. Taste malts, roasted malts, chocolate, bitter and loads of cocoa. A real cocoa bomb! Full body, medium carbonation.
Tried
on 06 May 2013
at 08:10
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draught. Opaque black liquid with small to medium tan head. Aroma of chocolate, cocoa, coffee, metal, bread, ash and dark fruit. Taste is light sweet and medium bitter with notes of cocoa, coffee and dark fruit. Medium to full bodied with medium carbonation.
Tried
on 05 May 2013
at 05:00
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
330mL bottle, pours a liquid black death with a medium brown head. Aroma is rich, full of vanilla, toasted oak, cocoa and molasses. Flavour is incredibly rich and complex, full of oak chips upfront, cocoa, vanilla beans, and only faint notes of the coffee. Finishes on notes oak and bitter dry cocoa. Extremely rich, with a medium body (for an impie stout). Excellent stuff - one of Brewdog's best.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Apr 2013
at 10:11
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle on the train out of plastic cup [120413]
Jet black, great filthy tan head, some lacing
Aroma of rich dark chocolate, rich dark deep malts, soft dark coffee, main rich chocolate, not that roasty, soft charred wood in there, deep intense dark fairly sweet malts, great aroma
Taste of very rich chewy dark malts, lots of chocolate, soft coffee, rich plain chocolate, some dark wood, big time flavours here, alcohol well hidden, very malty, not really getting the vanilla, complex, hint of mellow burnt toast, great taste
Palate - Medium carb, full body, rich and smooth, some powdery cocoa in there, bit sticky. Finish a bit dry, rich dark malt linger with a dab of soft burnt wood, thick and rich, some alcohol warmth on the finish
Overall - A really good impy from BrewDog, very rich body, it’s even great out of a crappy ScotRail placcy cup
Jet black, great filthy tan head, some lacing
Aroma of rich dark chocolate, rich dark deep malts, soft dark coffee, main rich chocolate, not that roasty, soft charred wood in there, deep intense dark fairly sweet malts, great aroma
Taste of very rich chewy dark malts, lots of chocolate, soft coffee, rich plain chocolate, some dark wood, big time flavours here, alcohol well hidden, very malty, not really getting the vanilla, complex, hint of mellow burnt toast, great taste
Palate - Medium carb, full body, rich and smooth, some powdery cocoa in there, bit sticky. Finish a bit dry, rich dark malt linger with a dab of soft burnt wood, thick and rich, some alcohol warmth on the finish
Overall - A really good impy from BrewDog, very rich body, it’s even great out of a crappy ScotRail placcy cup
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Apr 2013
at 17:32
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
33cl bottle from Appellation Wines. Well I’ve previously described beers as pouring opaque but this is probably the most opaque black beer I’ve ever seen, even the head is like fairly dark chocolate. The nose has very obvious coffee and creamy dark chocolate. The taste has more of the dark chocolate and coffee and it slips into a liquorice finish. The palate is big and opulent with a creamy and dare I say relatively elegant finish. Overall, it’s balanced enough. There is really only one dimension to this, but that said, it is a pretty good dimension.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Apr 2013
at 15:41
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draugh at Brewdog Edinburgh cons 2013-04-04 AR: heavy, chocolate, roasted malt, wee peaty AP: soat black, thich brown head F: fizzy, peaty, tar, leather, bitter chocoloate, coffee, wee graint, heavy bitterness, very dry
Tried
on 04 Apr 2013
at 10:41
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours black & viscous as motor oil; small olive-dark brown head, medium. Smoked nose, as with Rauchmalz; mineral, maltsweetness suggested in the backgroundd. Dry-bitterish, burnt-roasted, ashy... well, all the markers all there - except chocolateflavour, just the bitter dryness of cocoapowder. Retronasal I got roasted coffee. Rich, voluptuous feel; very dry and seemingly everlasting aftertaste. Oh darn - one can criticize the BrewDog guys for their commercial craving, but by Jove, they can brew!
Tried
from Can
on 01 Apr 2013
at 12:35
7.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Appearance: Sinful black color with a small beige head. Some lacing.
Aroma: Coffee, chocolate and cocoa.
Palate: Thick oily body. A bit dry and a light bitterness. Soft carbonation.
Taste: Chocolate, coffee, roasted malt and cocoa.
Overall impression: Complex and tasty evening sipper.
Personal stats: On tap at BrewDog Birmingham in Birmingham, England.
Tried
from Draft
on 31 Mar 2013
at 03:18