Chocolate Gearbox
Roaring Table Brewing Co in Lake Zurich, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Stout Regular|
Score
7.13
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
16oz can from the brewery. Sort of intense roasty tone, coffee touches. It is nice that it isn't sickly sweet, but still has that adjuncty flavored feel too. Grew on me each sip. Actually has the Export Stout backdrop, but also leans into the vanilla and cacao nib. Unique, good.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Draft at Orange & Brew. Opaque black body with a bit of brown edge. Thin ring of foam. Nose has lots of sweet cocoa to it, and some definite roast malt. Taste, again, had chocolate to it, a little bit of cherry, too, both sweet and tart. A little hard to catch the vanilla on all this flavor. Though it does assert itself further down. Nice sweetness to it, like from a chocolate bar. But then a little edge of bitter cocoa powder, too. A fine, complex foreign style stout. Mouthfeel is a little light, which also goes down well. 8-5-8-4-17