Cranker's Brewery Aphrodisiac

Aphrodisiac

 

Cranker's Brewery in Big Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Imperial Rotating
Score
7.07
ABV: 10.0% IBU: 41 Ticks: 4
Chocolate pomegranate imperial stout. Enhance your romance this Valentine’s season with the seductive flavors of chocolate and pomegranate. We combined three of the most intoxicating aphrodisiacs on the planet (chocolate, pomegranate, and alcohol) to create this lustful brew. You’ll taste the passion that makes this love at first sip.

Silver at 2017 Great American Beer Festival.
Silver at 2018 US Open Beer Championship.
 

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Vloeibare choco.

Tried on 10 Feb 2019 at 17:06


7

Tried from Draft on 23 Sep 2018 at 14:19


6.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 7

Sampled from the tap at Gravity. Pours near black with a tan head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a chalky chocolate note with a bit of pomegranate and a hint of dark grains. Flavor combines earthy dark grains and chalky chocolate with a hint pomegranate.

Tried from Draft on 19 Feb 2017 at 16:08


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

22 ounce bottle into snifter; not bottle dating, but is a recent release. Pours nearly opaque dark brown/black color with a 1-2 finger dense tan head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass. Aromas of big milk chocolate cake, cocoa, caramel, toffee, fudge, pomegranate, dark bread, light coffee/smoke, and roast/toasted earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt and light-moderate pomegranate fruit notes; with great strength. Taste of big milk chocolate cake, cocoa, caramel, toffee, fudge, pomegranate, dark bread, light coffee/smoke, and roast/toasted earthiness. Light roasted bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of milk chocolate cake, cocoa, caramel, toffee, fudge, pomegranate, dark bread, light coffee/smoke, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and light-moderate pomegranate fruit flavors; with a good roasted bitter/sweet balance and zero cloying sweetness after the finish. Slight roasted dryness as well. Light carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/silky, and slightly chalky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. overall this is a very nice fruited imperial sweet stout! All around good complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and light-moderate pomegranate fruit flavors; and very smooth and easy to drink for the ABV. A touch thin on body for the ABV, but still has a very nice mouthfeel; and is very enjoyable all around.

Tried from Bottle on 22 Mar 2016 at 22:00