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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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Amber beer with a dark cream head. Chocolate and light hop aroma. Chocolate and light malt flavor. Medium bodied. Chocolate lingers with light hops and light malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 May 2015
at 18:24
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at Craig’s. Pours copper, nose is chocolate, coffee, caramel, taste is similar, artificial.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jan 2015
at 06:08
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Red deep golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma is chocolate, malt, hop, cocoa. Flavour is chocolate, malt, hop, cocoa, vanilla, nuts. Full body. Very nice beer that i would like to drink again.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2014
at 00:18
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Duft av humle, malt og sjokolade. Dunkel gulbrun farge. Dekkende skum. Smak av røyk, lys sjokolade og vanilje.
Tried
on 24 Oct 2014
at 11:55
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle at jackl’s tasting courtesy of a person or persons, thanks! Hazy deep golden amber color, white edge head. Aroma of grass, straw, light chocolate milk. Taste is cream, vanilla, hay; chocolate comes in at the finish, subtle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2014
at 10:18
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Since the bottle said to pour in a Boulevard tulip that is what I did. Yes, I may have strayed from proper glassware, but part of this beer review is also for experimentation purposes. The bottle number is CH13365-1 with a best by date of September 2014.
The appearance is a hazy orange to brown color. Originally, I thought it was what looks like suspended cocoa nibs hanging amidst the body, but the more I look at it the more I believe it to be the yeast. There is a nice one finger white to off white foamy head that dissipates into the body in about thirty seconds. There really isn’t any lacing to be found.
The smell has an authentic cocoa flavoring with a nice allocation of light fruit. I’m going to say peaches.
The taste replicates the smell and ends up leaving a dry bitter and somewhat chocolatey aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sits about a light to medium and leaves a somewhat sessionable quality running about my mouth and tongue. The carbonation seems appropriately matched for rounding out the whole beer.
Overall, chocolate ale, well, kudos to Boulevard. To me, I’m not sure where I got the peaches in the smell and taste, but I like it and for the most part am pretty sure I’d have this again.
The appearance is a hazy orange to brown color. Originally, I thought it was what looks like suspended cocoa nibs hanging amidst the body, but the more I look at it the more I believe it to be the yeast. There is a nice one finger white to off white foamy head that dissipates into the body in about thirty seconds. There really isn’t any lacing to be found.
The smell has an authentic cocoa flavoring with a nice allocation of light fruit. I’m going to say peaches.
The taste replicates the smell and ends up leaving a dry bitter and somewhat chocolatey aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, this one sits about a light to medium and leaves a somewhat sessionable quality running about my mouth and tongue. The carbonation seems appropriately matched for rounding out the whole beer.
Overall, chocolate ale, well, kudos to Boulevard. To me, I’m not sure where I got the peaches in the smell and taste, but I like it and for the most part am pretty sure I’d have this again.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 May 2014
at 11:12
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at MacDowell Brew Kitchen poured into a plastic cup. Dark caramel brown with off-white head. Aromas of milk chocolate and caramel. Tasting notes of big milk chocolate, caramel, light hops. Medium body with a dry finish. Medium carbonation, medium slick mouthfeel. My expectations were low from seeing other opinions but I really enjoyed this, got a lot of chocolate flavors.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Apr 2014
at 23:42
5.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle - Dusty cocoa powder and some fruit. Clearish copper with almost no head. Chocolate and cocoa, bit of spice and light ale yeast. I am not a fan, the flavors do not meld well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Apr 2014
at 17:11
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Vegetal nose. Clear copper, medium head. Marzipan flavor with only a wisp of chocolate. I’m not sure what this was supposed to be, but it didn’t quite get there. Not a complete disaster, but has some issues.
Tried
on 07 Apr 2014
at 20:56
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Draft at Beer Run. Pours a clear copper color with a thin white head. Fair head retention. Aroma of intense chocolate, mild fruitiness, pale malt. The taste is milk chocolate, mild fruits, mild herbal hops. Medium bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Mar 2014
at 22:53