Cyclo Imperial Chocolate Stout
Pasteur Street Brewing in Ho Chi Minh City, Southeast, Vietnam 🇻🇳
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.41
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Quite literally the world’s gold standard for chocolate beer. This cacao monster just brought Vietnam its first ever gold medal in the World Beer Cup, the most prestigious beer competition in the world! Working closely with the good people at Maison Marou Chocolate, we tirelessly tasted cacao nibs from across the country until we developed the perfect blend. We then add these nibs to our Imperial Stout with a touch of Saigon cinnamon and hint of fresh vanilla beans from Mui Ne. The result: chocolate transcendence!
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8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at the Ho Chi Minh brewpub. Poured a clear dark brown with a frothy, short-lived tan head. The aroma is roasty malt, light chocolate, some coffee. The flavour is moderate sweet with a rich fruity, chocolate, coconut, vanilla, light spicy palate. Medium to full bodied with soft carbonation. I expected more on the chocolate front but the other flavours more than made up for it. At 13% the alcohol is very well hidden. So well hidden in fact the I really doubt that the ABV is correct.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Jun 2016
at 09:43