Cocoa Psycho
BrewDog in Ellon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland 🏴
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.70
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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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9.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 8
Bottle at home. Poured a lovely colour with a minimal head, but what a colour to the head! It was verging on the black and I have never seen anything like it. A good nose of coffee, roasted malt and alcohol. The flavour was intense, with coffee, roasted malt, soy, chocolate and an overall pleasant savoury character. The mouthfeel was fantastic, oily, velvety, malty and very pleasant. It isn’t often that I am sad when I have finished a beer, but this was just such an occasion.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jul 2017
at 02:35
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Bottle from Booths, Media City. Black with next to no head. Very strong tasting, with a sticky-sweet texture and taste. It’s very sweet with its roasted malt character, so not very roasted in reality.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2017
at 14:45
6/10
Tried
on 19 Jun 2017
at 14:11
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap at Brewdog USA. Pours black with small tan head that lasts. The aroma is smoke, oak, roast, peat. Thick, chewy, roast, smoke, chocolate, peat, boozy finish, very good.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Jun 2017
at 12:58
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
A black beer, a head is dark brown and medium sized. Aroma is balanced with chocolate, coffee, roastiness, liquirice, sweetness and vanilla. Taste is also nicely balanced, chocolate, salt liquirice, balanced sweetness, then bitterness and some wood. Medium+ bodied. Great and balanced beer with the strong elements.
Tried
on 07 Apr 2017
at 12:37
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Brown bottle, 330 ml, best before 31/07/23, at BrewDog Cardiff, trip to Swansea, Amsterdam and Paris with Louise, savoured on August 20 2016 ; eye: black, opaque, brown head that turns into a ring, average lacing; nose: chocolate, burnt, coffee, light vanilla, roasting; mouth: chocolate, burnt, coffee, light vanilla, roasting, bittering hops, slight molasses, finale in chocolate with good presence of coffee, acridness from roasting, full body, below-average carbonation, surprisingly bitter, slightly sweet, harsh texture but with a silky side coming from the oats; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 330 ml, meilleure avant 31/07/23, bue chez BrewDog Cardiff, voyage à Swansea, Amsterdam et Paris avec Louise, savourée le 20 août 2016; œil : noire, opaque, mousse brune qui se transforme en un anneau, dentelle moyenne; nez : chocolat, brûlé, café, léger vanille, torréfaction; bouche : chocolat, brûlé, café, léger vanille, torréfaction, houblon amérisant, très léger mélasse, finale en chocolat avec bonne présence de café, âcreté de torréfaction, corsée, carbonatation sous la moyenne, curieusement amère, très légèrement sucrée, texture râpeuse mais avec une petite présence soyeuse provenant de l’avoine; en résumé : bien
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Apr 2017
at 15:41
8.5/10
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Feb 2017
at 23:00
8/10
Nitro!
Tried
on 03 Feb 2017
at 17:38
7/10
Aromat nieintensywny, kakao, kawa, czekolada, palinosc + niuanse, dosc zlozony. W ustach dosc wytrawnie, ciut kwaskowato, duuuuzo ciala[...]
Tried
at
Powiśle
on 04 Jan 2017
at 18:23
7/10
Tried
on 03 Jan 2017
at 18:01