Chocolate Ale
Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
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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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6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle 750ml.Unclear medium orange colour with a average to large, creamy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, dusty chocolate, cacao, wood. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long duration, bitter chocolate, chocolate, vanilla, milk chocolate. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120128]
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 May 2012
at 11:37
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 6
12oz bottle poured into a snifter. Batch #1, kinda worried that it’s infected. Pours a lightly cloudy dark orange with about a finger of off-white head. Aroma is slightly sour with just a hint of milk chocolate. Taste is medium-heavy sour...like "sour patch kids" sour. Green apple with a little milk chocolate that starts about in the middle and continues into the end. Light bodied with a somewhat thin texture. Fizzy carbonation and a decently long finish. Overall, I’m not a fan. I’ll try it again if I can find a "non-infected" bottle and re-rate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2012
at 23:08
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
This brewer is really growing on me. From the 4/2012 3R6P tasting. +++ Sampled from a 750 ml corked brown bottle this beer poured a hazy caramel color with a large foamy/soapy orange-white head that left good lacing. The aroma was faint fruity hops with hints of chocolate and nut. I really expected more from the aroma. The flavor lived up to the promise with a strong sweet chocolate syrup presence and notes of vanilla, coffee and marshmallow. The finish was long with chocolate syrup and marshmallow lingering. Fairly full bodies and quite smooth. Lovely.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Apr 2012
at 09:55
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
2011 bottle batch 3. Pours with a murky amber hued body with a lasting off-white head. Aromas are earthy, husky, vanilla, dusty cocoa, soil, spicy and a touch vegital. Flavors are of banana, vanilla, earthy, coffee, mild vegital notes, berries, estery, bready, biscuity, grainy, earthy chocolate. Lively bubbles, fuller bodied and slightly warming.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Mar 2012
at 10:49
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle thanks to Scott! Pours a clear amber with an off white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of earthy chocolate with a bit of backing sweet grain. Flavor begins with sweet grain, but quickly became full of sweet chocolate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Mar 2012
at 16:27
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft at Lemon Tree, 2/28. $3.25 for half-off Tuesday. Served in a Delerium Tremens chalice, it looks just a little darkish brown, with a thin Belgian style foam atop. smell is a nice, sweet milk chocolate, maybe even a Godiva. Taste is equally sweet and milk chocolatey. The cocoa taste shines in a beer that is not a stout, the usual style to which chocolate is added. So no roasty notes, just a wonderful chocolate sensation. This is the first Boulevard "extreme" beer I’ve gotten to taste, and it’s a winner./
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Mar 2012
at 12:01
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Rated this last night when the site was down. 750 ml bottle. This is the first chocolate beer I’ve ever had that wasn’t black or dark brown. It pours hazy orange with a huge
beige head that collapses after a few minutes. Beer is completely headless 3/4 of the way through the first glass. Aroma is of course
chocolatey. I also smell a hint of coffee. Taste is sweet with a hint
of sour leading to a faintly dry bitter finish. Velvety mouthfeel and
medium carbonation. It’s a nice beer, but I prefer Southern Tier’s
Choklat and Sam Adams Chocolate Bock when it comes to chocolate beers.
beige head that collapses after a few minutes. Beer is completely headless 3/4 of the way through the first glass. Aroma is of course
chocolatey. I also smell a hint of coffee. Taste is sweet with a hint
of sour leading to a faintly dry bitter finish. Velvety mouthfeel and
medium carbonation. It’s a nice beer, but I prefer Southern Tier’s
Choklat and Sam Adams Chocolate Bock when it comes to chocolate beers.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Feb 2012
at 09:14
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours cloudy mahogany into a snifter. Off-white micro head with medium retention recedes to skim surface and hug rim. Chocolate, roasted nuts and vanilla aromas. Dry with sweet roasted nuts, toasted pumpernickel and milk chocolate. Lasting toffee and vanilla finish becomes slightly cloying over time.
Tried
on 15 Feb 2012
at 16:19
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Sample at OH! Growlers! Tasting on 01/31/2012: Pours a cloudy yellow color with a medium foamy off-white head that burns away steadily. Sticky rings of lacing on the glass. Cocoa powder aroma along with a bit of malt. Medium body with a sweet chocolate character and notes of malt, vanilla and a touch of hops. The finish is chocolatey with a sweet aftertaste. Kind of reminded me of ABC’s Dirty Summer Blonde Chocolate Beer but richer. Above average overall.
Tried
from Growler
on 02 Feb 2012
at 14:45
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Draft @ Sunset Grill. Clear transparent amber color. Sizable head with lots of lacing. Nose is light chocolate and vanilla. The flavor is not a normal chocolate dominated brew, a spicy herbal, peppery hops in the finish. No heat of any kind, not hot spice, just Peppery. Yeah it does taste like a chocolate bar was melted into the brew. I think it was very tasty. However you need to like sweet brews. The 9.1% is completely hidden. Really fun to try. I really like this brewery, haven’t had anything bad from them.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Feb 2012
at 12:54