Chocolate Ale
Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
6.81
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Ale with Cacao Nibs, Chocolate and Vanilla Extracts (Smokestack Series)
One of the brightest stars in a city filled with culinary treasures, Christopher Elbow has been handcrafting masterpieces in chocolate for more than fifteen years. In that time, the reputation of his artistic delicacies has spread around the globe. Elbow’s sweets are distinguished by their use of unusual and sometimes surprising flavors and ingredients. In that adventurous spirit we joined forces to bring you a very special Chocolate Ale.
Medium bodied and effervescent, the aroma evokes dried fruits, earth and cocoa, with just a hint of spicy hops. Mouthwatering flavors of Valrhona chocolate from Dominican cacao nibs weave seamlessly between layers of honey, brown sugar, caramel and nutty malt, deftly harmonizing and rounding into a luscious, lingering finish.
One of the brightest stars in a city filled with culinary treasures, Christopher Elbow has been handcrafting masterpieces in chocolate for more than fifteen years. In that time, the reputation of his artistic delicacies has spread around the globe. Elbow’s sweets are distinguished by their use of unusual and sometimes surprising flavors and ingredients. In that adventurous spirit we joined forces to bring you a very special Chocolate Ale.
Medium bodied and effervescent, the aroma evokes dried fruits, earth and cocoa, with just a hint of spicy hops. Mouthwatering flavors of Valrhona chocolate from Dominican cacao nibs weave seamlessly between layers of honey, brown sugar, caramel and nutty malt, deftly harmonizing and rounding into a luscious, lingering finish.
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Golden, light brown. Nice three finger head. Nice chocolate flavor. Really good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2025
at 05:51
6.5/10
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Appearance 5
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from Livonia Liquor. Pours a clearish orange honey brown color with a finger of white foam that lingers. Bottle is about 5 months old but loads of floaties visible. Milk chocolate and vanilla aromas on the nose. Beer-like texture on the palate with nice carbonation. More of the same milk chocolate and vanilla on the palate with some bready malt notes and a drying cocoa power-like texture.
Tried
from Bottle
from
Livonia Liquor & Fine Wine
on 02 May 2022
at 23:29
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle: Poured an amber, which I didn’t expect, with off white head. Aroma is vanilla. Taste is weird mix of artificial chocolate and vanilla.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Oct 2019
at 00:06
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at Verdugo. Strange, quite flat, but that probably makes sense, milky choc. Confusing but nice though.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Sep 2019
at 16:03
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Boulevard usually sets high with me as a brewer. I gladly found this 12 oz bottle at Total Wine in Santa Fe, NM last week. Carried home, cooled off considerably (needed because of the hot start to the summer) and lifted into a Belgian chalice, ah, cannot hurt. Wow, it comes out an opaque, light copper liquid, surprised is me. No head to speak of, there does appear to be some carbonation. The smell is lightly chocolate, lightly vanilla. Curious. And the taste, well, that is different. Again small-ball with the chocolate (not even milk chocolate in strength), perhaps some orange, cereal, all somewhat thin. Just a touch of bitterness. I guess the key to this is that it is an ale instead of the usual stout, just my speculation I know my preference.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jun 2019
at 01:57
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
$4.50 bottle, Beer Run. I don't read carefully enough; I was expecting nice stout... could really go for one right now.Pours murky amber with a dusting of a beige head. Aroma is cheap chocolate candy, red fruit, dark fruit. Flavor is cheap chocolate candy (those chocolate easter eggs come to mind), some vanilla, light fruit. Disappointing.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 May 2019
at 22:18
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Clear amber, light beige head. Cacao, chocolate, and vanilla notes mixed with lager. Finish is sweet. Not that great.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Apr 2019
at 19:42
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
The Aromas are dark malt, toffee, and a little less chocolate. Flavors are like nose slightly more sweet than bitter not overly, strong carbonation gets in the way. Chocolate is maybe too subdued. Kind of a ho-hum beer.
Tried
on 28 Jan 2019
at 06:40
4.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3.5
26.12.2017, 0,75l bottle (best before 12.2014) @ home:
Nice fizzy-creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly dry sour-ish mineraly, weeds, hay, grass, minerals, old dusty cellar, alcohol, bark, hints of dusty cocoa and grain. Taste is slightly dry sour-ish mineraly, weeds, grass, bark, minerals, old dusty cellar, dusty cocoa, alcohol, paper. Medium bitterness, slightly dry and harsh mineraly mouthfeel. Probably way over the top, still not my cup of coffee.
Nice fizzy-creamy mediumlasting head. Aroma is slightly dry sour-ish mineraly, weeds, hay, grass, minerals, old dusty cellar, alcohol, bark, hints of dusty cocoa and grain. Taste is slightly dry sour-ish mineraly, weeds, grass, bark, minerals, old dusty cellar, dusty cocoa, alcohol, paper. Medium bitterness, slightly dry and harsh mineraly mouthfeel. Probably way over the top, still not my cup of coffee.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Dec 2017
at 14:10
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 8
Overall 6
Poured from a bottle it is a clear amber color with an off white head. The aroma is rich, complex and quite chocolatey with a light vanilla and coffee flavor. Sweet and rich
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Aug 2015
at 22:16