De Cacao
Mystic Brewery in Chelsea, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Belgian Style - Strong Ale Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.84
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tiong (21414) reviewed De Cacao from Mystic Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sample from a bottle @ Mystic, Chelsea, MA. Heavy, smooth and flat with loads of cocoa, vanilla and chocolate. Loads of warming alcohol in the finish. A total chocolate overdose.
VastActiv (16457) reviewed De Cacao from Mystic Brewery 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Sample from the bottle at Mystic, Chelsea. Color is murky brown with very small head. Aromas and flavors: Cocoa, chocolate, dryness, whiskey?, some ripe fruits and malts. Quite heavy. IMO style should be American strong ale.
Clarkvv (16760) reviewed De Cacao from Mystic Brewery 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
2 ounce sample from the bottle, at the brewery, 11/21/15.
They aren’t always terribly forthcoming with information about their beers, at the brewery. The bottles usually have a nice blurb on them, but their draught lists have generally one quick sentence, "Still ale with chocolate", "Sour ale dry-hopped", etc....Pretty stupid, if you ask me, if you’re going to put as much time in to the beer, that they do, to not have plenty of information about it. So I asked the bartender, who quickly deferred to the other bartender, who just said, Oh it has cacao nibs in the barrel. With further prodding, I was told that entropy was the base beer (it’s bottled in the entropy-style bottles).
Anywho, it pours a clear, light mahogany with cola tints and a beige head that rapidly fizzles to nothing.
Chocolate and....more chocolate in the nose. It’s enjoyable, at least, with a nutty edge to it. Cola notes, a good amount of prune character, some vanilla and surprisingly little alcohol come through. It takes quite a while for much more to emerge, being rather dominated by the chocolate character.
The flavor is significantly more complex, and less given over to the cacao character. Toffee, very light coffee hints, raisins, prunes and such. Indeed flat, but with a good attenuation leaving the beer actually manageable in this condition. Some esters and alcohol help dry things out as well. Good richness to the malt, with a chewy texture. It’s quite soft and comforting on the palate.
I never really see the need for this much alcohol in a beer, but when it’s relatively well-concealed, as it is here, I can tolerate it. Some interesting flavors, for sure, and a unique beer, but I’d like a little more Belgian character or something along those lines. Just seems all malt and cacao-driven.