Cardinal Double Chocolate Chili Stout

Draught @ Cardinal, Stavanger
Pours black with a tan head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, caramel and licorice. Taste is medium sweet and light bitter with a long chocolate, caramel, toffee, licorice and hint of chili finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.

On tap at Cardinal. Pours black with very small beige head. Aroma of chocolate, coffee, dark bread, raisins. Taste sweet with some roasted and fruity sourness and a little bitterness. Slightly hot finish.

Draught, 250ml glass on a sample tray at Cardinal in Stavanger. A shiny black surface to a jet black body. Dotted spots on the glass. Dark malty aroma, subdued chocolate notes. Taste of chocolate malts joined by black coffee notes and followed by a mild and lingering chili taste towards the ending. Fine bodied. Likable sipper, not overdone in anyway (20.06.2015).

16.03.2013, tap @ Cardinal:
24.10.2015, tap @ Cardinal:
Nice creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly sweet, licorice, dark malts, dark sugar, coffee, caramel. Taste is slightly dry grassy, weeds, minerals, dark malts, smoke, grassy chillies, hay, licorice, grass, paper. Medium bitterness, slightly dry and watery mouthfeel. Fair enough.

Black in colour. Coffee in aroma. Slightly sour taste, with heavy chili aftertaste. Perhaps slightly short taste. First brew was more complex and in harmony, and had thicker mouthfeel. Still not bad :-)

On tap @ Cardinal, Stavanger. Pours black, with a quite small head. Aroma is burned malts with chocolate and coffee. Body is full creamy, with a soft carbonation. Flavour is sweet with caramel and chocolate, as well as coffee and kandi before a strong peppery chili kicks the hell out of everything and lasts throughout the finish.

On tap @ Cardinal. Black body with a thin beige head. Lovely aroma of dark malt, roasted coffee and chocolate. Honestly I was not able to detect any chili in the aroma. Flavor has a nice, sweet dark maltiness, coffee, dark chocolate, smooth roast and no chili. No chili? What a surprise. But then almost a minute later the chili starts warming from deep down my throat and slowly fills my whole mouth. Not really burning, but quite warming and pretty dominating. After a few more sips this beer feels like just sweet chocolate chili and frankly more like a novelty than a proper beer. But then again my experience of this beer altered for the third time and it becomes really pleasant. This is the kind of beer you can’t claim to have tasted by 5 cl, you definitively need a full glass. And the next beer thereafter is spoiled by the chili. This was a funny experience for me.

On tap at Cardinal. A more or less black one, topped by a small, beige head. There’s a hint of chili on the nose, with roasted malts, cold coffee and some dark chocolate. Quite chili warming on the palate, full bodied and soft on the carbonation. There’s chili, roasted malts, coffee and dark chocolate in the flavour, some sweetness too. Mostly chili in the finish, but some roasted malts and herbal notes chimes in. Overall, a pleasant beer indeed, but I’d like more chocolate. 121022