Shockolate Wheat
Shock Top Beers in St. Louis, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Regular|
Score
5.87
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Shock Top Shockolate Wheat is a Belgian-style unfiltered wheat ale aged over cocoa and vanilla beans. This seasonal, unfiltered ale delivers a dark, rich color and a smooth, creamy finish. Mix this chocolate flavored beer with Belgian White or Raspberry Wheat to create the Choc’ Top!
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5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12oz bottle Pours a dark brown with a thin but persistent light tan head. Light chocolate aroma with some slight papery sourness. Sweet milk chocolate flavors, Dusty palate and no bitterness...just more cocoa power and lactose.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2014
at 21:29
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
12 oz bottle from the mix six pack. First, the Chocolate Wheat, followed by the mixing of this and the Belgian White. So, plain Chocolate Wheat: aroma is chocolaty, vanilla, whiff of vomit that isn’t as bothersome as it would seem (it goes away after awhile). Pours mahogany with a collapsing beige head. Taste is extremely strong in vanilla, chocolate secondary. This tastes a lot like that Michelob winter seasonal AB used to release a few years ago before the Shock Top brand took off--Winters Bourbon Cask Ale. I wonder if it’s the same beer under a new name. Sweet with no bitterness. Fairly watery, like all Shock Top beers. Tastes good, though. Now on to the black and tan-like mixing of this and the Belgian White: the aroma reveals mostly the Belgian White--moldy orange peel and coriander with the Chocolate beer peeking through only a little. Top half of the glass is paler than the bottom, but doesn’t look as dramatically different as a true black and tan. I probably fucked it up. Head is much nicer than the chocolate beer by itself after I poured the Belgian White over the back of a spoon: has a large, long-sustaining mostly beige head with darker patterns from the chocolate beer. After the head settles into a skiff of foam, the two beers mingle together in the nose more. Taste is also a mingle of the two. Since the chocolate beer is superior to nasty old regular Shock Top, it brings the flavor score down two points. Same goes for the aroma, which drops a point. Overall, an interesting idea, but the chocolate beer isn’t all that bad and regular Shock Top is. Mixing the two is a failed experiment. 5, 5, 6, 3,14=3.3 for the mixing of the two.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Feb 2014
at 23:08
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Well here’s a surprise, quite possibly the best A-B beer I have ever had. Pours a dark reddish brown with foaming head into a wheat beer glass. OK so its supposed to be a Belgian wheat beer, which I don’t really understand, it has more of a clean profile, no phenols, notes of chocolate mostly on the nose and flavor. Smooth palate, easy finishing. I don’t really understand the wheat beers recently being used for winter seasonals, but I guess I don’t care, a good beer is a good beer any time of year.
Tried
on 30 Jan 2014
at 13:35
3.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 2
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3
12 ounce bottle. Pours a hazy dark brown color with a large fizzy brown head. Fair head retention. Aroma of intense chocolate and cloying vanilla. The taste is wheat, cocoa, vanilla. Thin-medium bodied, artificial and lacking complexity. Poor effort, even for the Shock Top series.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Jan 2014
at 21:53
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle (trade with Patrickctenchi for a Struise Black Albert). Cocoa and wheat malt aroma. Dark brown with small head. Mildly sweet cocoa and wheat malt flavor. Probably the best Shock Top.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2014
at 17:38
5.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Nice dark look to it. Smell is a little malty. Decent sizzle to it on the first taste. Fairly smooth and easy. Yes, does have some choco in the finish. Quite easy, reminds me a little of many American dark lagers; smooth easy to take and fairly friendly. Does not really resemble milk chocolate, not as sweet as expected. Not bad overall but sometimes that choco thing comes across a little artificial.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Jan 2014
at 12:42
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. A- Chocolate, spices, vanilla. A- Dark brown color, dark liquid, white head. T- Chocolate, vanilla, spices, slightly malty. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, rich finish. O- Not horrible, but not great. I just had it alone not mixed with Shock Top’s Belgian White like recommended. Not sure if that would have made it better or not.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2013
at 07:56
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Refrigerated 12 oz. brown bottle poured into a glass. Pours dark/medium brown with small beige head which dissipates quickly. Little lacing, medium body, low carbonation, and chocolate aroma. Taste is chocolate, some vanilla, and hints of marshmellow. Not bad, but nothing extraordinary.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2013
at 18:35
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Sample at Kurtkeller 001: Pumpkin-tastic 01 on 11/22/2013. Dark brown pour with a thin beige head that recedes quickly to an outer ring. Short strings of lace. Aroma of chocolate, malt and vanilla. Light-bodied with flavors of sweet cocoa, vanilla and malt. The finish is sweet with a pure milk chocolate aftertaste. Decent, although I don’t know what exactly qualifies it as "Belgian" unless it refers to the chocolate.
Tried
on 28 Nov 2013
at 09:56