Orange Chocolate Stout
Sankt Gallen Brewery in Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan 🇯🇵
Stout - Milk / Sweet Regular|
Score
6.97
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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.
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.
mart (27297) reviewed Orange Chocolate Stout from Sankt Gallen Brewery 7 years ago
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.