Orange Chocolate Stout
Sankt Gallen Brewery in Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan 🇯🇵
Stout - Milk / Sweet Regular|
Score
6.90
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8.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Tokyu Food Show a couple of months ago. First of all, I should say that a chocolate orange is one of my favourite chocolate things, so I would expect that I would like this. Aroma is lots of orange and chocolate, and quite like a chocolate orange. Chocolate is quite bitter though. Taste is similar, lots of chocolate and orange again, nice bitterness too. Finish is a bit more creamy, touch of vanilla, but there is a bit of bitterness that hangs around too. Really different. Very smooth and not as thin as people seem to have said. Maybe they have beefed it up a bit in recent years. I really like this, although I appreciate that it could be a bit sickly. Definitely enough in there to keep it interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2019
at 15:53
6.5/10
If you like orange chocolate, you'll love this. Meant to be for Valentine's day, but that ship has sailed, so all for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2019
at 23:49
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
330ml bottle. Pours dark brown with light beer foam. Nose has a bit of roast, chocolaty, some sour edge. Taste is sour as well, some spices, robust roast and light citrus. High carbonation, sour and berries covered with chocolate dust. Again, infected but actually taste is kind of OK as a sour beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2018
at 18:26
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle (thanks jinroh). Pours dark brown with beige head. Aroma is roast, chocolate, fruits. Flavor is sour and bitter, orange, roast, oatmeal. Finish is roasty and orangy. Overall: good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Sep 2018
at 18:26
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
On tap at Watering Hole February 2014. Served in a shaker pint. Huge orange aroma with dark chocolate as well. Tastes of quality cacao, orange, and toasted malts. A nice creamy mouthfeel with mostly a smooth bittereness on the palate, however there is also a bit of sourness in there too. Great smooth finish with a hint of vanilla/bourbon. Another solid dessert beer effort from Sankt Gallen.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Mar 2015
at 07:06
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Yodobashi Camera in Kyoto. It poured an inky black with an off-white head of foam which dissipated leaving behind decent lacing. The aroma really hits you with the orange but the flavor is of a very bitter roast chocolate. It is fairly well balanced & an interesting take on a chocolate beer. It’s pretty good but I feel it never really completely came together, possibly the orange is added with some kind of extract which detracts from the beer, I think it should be a bit more subtle but then again the bitterness is so pronounced maybe if the orange flavor was subtler it would be overwhelmed. Either way worth trying & I give Sankt Gallen kudos for being inventive!
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2013
at 06:52
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
23/03/2012 330ml bottle (thanks KyotoLefty!). Bevuta alla Tana. Bruna, quasi nera, riflessi color miele di castagno, schiuma color beige, abbondante e persistente. Fastidioso e persistente aroma metallico, intenso, quindi emergono malti tostati, con note di cioccolata. In bocca è sgraziata, poco bilanciata, male equilibrata, dolciastra, con finale luppolato. Corpo medio, carbonazione abbondante. Deludente.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Mar 2012
at 05:01
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Aroma of roasted malts, chocolate, and a trace of orange. Black, head quickly faded to just a bit of lace. Orange hits the mouth first, with the chocolate, which is just a bit too sweet at first but fades out into a dark Belgian chocolate taste. Middle palate is of roasted malts, a bit of coffee, dark chocolate, slightly sour orange. Very complex—or maybe complicated is better. This works pretty well. A bit too sweet overall for me, but decent.
Tried
on 24 Feb 2009
at 02:17
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Very deep brown with a creamy tan head. Aroma is very roasted malts, coffee, milk chocolate, with a little orange. Thin but creamy body. Oh, OK- there’s the orange, it’s in the flavor. Roasted malts, milk chocolate, light coffee, toffee, orange, and a touch of vanilla. I was dissapointed by the aroma, but this turns out to be a very tasty beer. When cold the orange is hidden by the other ingredients, but it really pops as it warms. Easy to drink and held my interest the whole way through. I’m going to have to pick up a few more bottles.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Jan 2009
at 02:22