Double Chocolate Stout
Fort Collins Brewery in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.19
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The most decadent creation ever to be crafted in FCB’s brewhouse. Deep roasty flavors, rich chocolate nose, coffee undertones and impeccable balance are the result of imperializing an already flawless brew.
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7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle on 12/13/2008. Very dark black body with a medium creamy light brown head. Big chocolate aroma with some roast and faint coffee hints and some hop hints. Big chocolate and coffee flavor, some roast with a bit of hop flavors and a dry moderately bitter finish. Medium full body with moderately low carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Jan 2009
at 18:31
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
This beer pours an opaque dark brown color with a medium and foamy beige head that recedes slowly. Large patches of lacing on the glass. Cocoa and coffee in the nose. Medium, smooth body with flavors of sweet chocolate, mildly bitter coffee and malt. The finish is roasty with a malt and coffee aftertaste. Overall this is a pretty good Chocolate Stout. Probably not a fair comparison as it is not Imperial but Southern Tier blows it out of the water and I would always go to Choklat before this.
Tried
on 14 Jan 2009
at 13:40
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Tan head, frothy, mostly diminishing. The body is black, but not opaque. The aroma is is full of dark chocolate and roasted malts with notes of grain, grapefruit and coffee. The flavor is moderately to heavily sweet, lightly bitter and lightly acidic. The finish is lightly bitter and moderately sweet. Strong taste of chocolate syrup. Medium to full body with a watery texture that turns sticky at the end. Medium carbonation. The alcohol comes through in the finish. This is an OK stout, but it’s overly sweet even for a sweet stout. At first, this is quite enjoyable, but it gets cloying after awhile.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Oct 2008
at 20:21
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Deep pitch black coloured body, fully opaque with a very thin brown head. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee, chocolate (of course) and a very interesting light pungent cranberry or currant aroma. Medium to full-bodied; Strong sweet malt flavours dominate with coffee and oatmeal tastes as well. Aftertaste has plenty of sweetness, chocolate (milk - ~40% cacao), lactic milk tastes and even a hint of the tart fruits. Overall, a nice complex beer for the style. This one almost reminds me of a lighter imperial, and I guess the alcohol shows it as well - but the sweetness and mildness of the initial taste make for a very interesting beer! I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased on 09-May-2008 from K&E Discount Beverage in New Paltz, New York sampled on 20-August-2008 at home in Washington, D.C.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Aug 2008
at 01:26
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draught at Oliver Twist, Stockholm. Opaque black, no head. Rich milk chocolate aroma. Sweet and full bodied with clean rounded mouthfeel. Caramelly malt with notes of bees wax, tar and milk chocolate. Warming potent finish with low bitterness. Makes me think of Bailey’s...
Tried
on 09 Jul 2008
at 05:05
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
bottle@Joe’s NYC Gathering courtesy of jwc215–pours a dissipating light brown head with black color. Aroma is dark malt-chocolate, oats, acidic. Taste is dark malt-chocolate, oats, secondary acidic-hops bite. After a brownie, the roughness disappeared-smooth.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jul 2008
at 15:42
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle bomber. Pour is dark brown with about a half inch of foamy head that dies quietly into the night. Aromas are of burnt cocoa and a bit of peat and smoke. Flavor is fairly empty at first and then blossoms into a kind of smoke-filled chocolate finish. Can’t really tell if they hit the mark they were aiming at with this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2008
at 21:57
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
tap at the brewpub - I had this one immediately following their regular chocolate stout. It is of course similar, but is certainly a more robust version with a heavier roast malt aroma and a big roast malt flavor with some good dark chocolate notes. It’s full bodied with some solid bitterness to it. It’s simply a very good brew and in my opinion better than the ratings here. Maybe it’s losing something in the bottling.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Apr 2008
at 13:40