Cocoa Trip Rioja BA
Grove Beer Co. in Ostrava, Moravian-Silesian Region, Czechia 🇨🇿
Brewed at/by: MadCatStout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular
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Score
7.16
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7.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 10
Overall 7
Tap at the LB fest, courtesy of Miro. Deeper brown/blackish pour with a red hue and an off-white head. Nose is roasted barley, chocolate, light coffee, berries and stone fruits. Quite tannic and somewhat funky. Taste is sweetish malts upfront, there's cocoa, chocolate, some dark sugars and then it shows acidic, fruity, funky notes. Closes with a dry, fruity and tartish finish, has a medium to full body and soft carbonation. I dig the dark and funky stuff, like this.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Mar 2025
at 11:56
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle 0.75l from our archive, two years aged. Almost clear, dark red to black colored. AROMA- full of sour cherries, sour cherry in chocolate, cocoa nibs, lightly vinous. FLAVOR- smooth, just slightly sweet, lightly bitter, quite sour and tart, vinous, sour cherries, earthy. Fuller bodied. And another sourish imperial stout. Quite tasty in this way.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Oct 2022
at 10:10
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Tap at LB 4. Big thanks Miro! Red-brown body, off-white head. Red wine, sweet taste, juicy, chocolatey, caramelly, bready undertones. Cherry-like red berry/grape-driven tartish taste, with light chocolate, earthy notes, light funk if I read here correctly. Quite nice!
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Mar 2022
at 09:29