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. Unclear amber with tiny floaties with small off-white head. Aroma is malt and chocolate. Flavour is malt, caramel, chocolate, sweet, hops, cocoa and a little sugar.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jan 2012
at 09:43
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Hazy orange with an off-white head and small floaties. Aroma is sweet, malty, milk chocolate, vanilla and cocoa. Flavor is quite sweet and moderate bitter. Sweet finish. 280112
Tried
on 28 Jan 2012
at 09:42
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle @ fonefan tasting. Nice head with good duration. Color is amber. Aroma and taste are milky chocolate, cocoa, caramel, vanilla, nuts and hops.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jan 2012
at 09:41
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle @ Too many Geuze’s - only one toilet , Ulfborg 2012. Pours hazy orange with a small creamy head. Chocolate and grain. Sweet and powdery chocolate. Artificial.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jan 2012
at 09:41
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Location: 750 ml bottle from Colonial Wine and Spirits, 1/24/12, from Batch 2011-1, best by 08-2012
Aroma: The nose has some bread/yeast notes, a little earthy hop, fruit, and just a hint of chocolate
Appearance: It pours a cloudy caramel-orange color with a fizzy, bubbly, long lasting, off-white head
Flavor: Tastes mid-sweet up-front, some mid-palate earthy hop bitterness, and a strong chocolate finish
Palate: It is fairly light, but not watery, with a solid drinkability, average carbonation, and a smooth finish
Overall Impression: You know, I didn't get what I was expecting at all here, but I still found myself enjoying it. Silly me, I saw Chocolate Ale, and didn't read past there, so I just assumed we were looking at a nice, rich chocolate stout. Well, that surely isn't what I have here. Instead, I found myself drinking a much different kind of beer. The second thing that surprised me about this one is how subtle the chocolate presence is. It is much more subtle then I would have expected in the nose, I mean, there's just a hint of chocolate there. Even in the flavor, the chocolate doesn't really show up until the end palate; however, it ends up being fairly strong there in the finish. Regardless of the differences of the expectation vs. the actual, it still ended up being a pretty good beer.
Aroma: The nose has some bread/yeast notes, a little earthy hop, fruit, and just a hint of chocolate
Appearance: It pours a cloudy caramel-orange color with a fizzy, bubbly, long lasting, off-white head
Flavor: Tastes mid-sweet up-front, some mid-palate earthy hop bitterness, and a strong chocolate finish
Palate: It is fairly light, but not watery, with a solid drinkability, average carbonation, and a smooth finish
Overall Impression: You know, I didn't get what I was expecting at all here, but I still found myself enjoying it. Silly me, I saw Chocolate Ale, and didn't read past there, so I just assumed we were looking at a nice, rich chocolate stout. Well, that surely isn't what I have here. Instead, I found myself drinking a much different kind of beer. The second thing that surprised me about this one is how subtle the chocolate presence is. It is much more subtle then I would have expected in the nose, I mean, there's just a hint of chocolate there. Even in the flavor, the chocolate doesn't really show up until the end palate; however, it ends up being fairly strong there in the finish. Regardless of the differences of the expectation vs. the actual, it still ended up being a pretty good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Jan 2012
at 20:41
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle as shown. Pours a cloudy amber with a large creamy off white head that lasts awhile leaving good sticky lacing along the glass. The aroma floral hops and raisin. Medium mouthfeel with a vanilla malt and chocolate with a nice sweet finish. Hides the alcohol well making it very easy to drink, a very good brew from Boulevard.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Nov 2011
at 22:24
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
750mL bottle, split 3 ways, pours amber with a medium white head. Aroma of cocoa, butter, caramel, candied fruits and spices. Flavour of cocoa upfront, with candied cherries, vanilla, caramel, nuts and some sour fruits. Quite enjoyable.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Oct 2011
at 11:24
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
@dmacs-750ml bottle-thanks to jtclockwork for sharing–pours a thin retaining tan head and amber color. Aroma is spice/herbal, secondary cocoa. Taste is a blast of cocoa, spice/herbal hops bite, finish is cocoa. Doesn’t quite work for me.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jun 2011
at 20:56
7.4/10
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Appearance 3
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 4
Overall 14
750 ml. Deep amber body with a frothy, off-white head that slowly diminishes. Strong aroma of cocoa with notes of toasted grain, vanilla, orange peel and citrus. The flavor is moderately to heavily sweet and lightly bitter. It finishes moderately sweet and moderately bitter and lightly tart. Medium body, velvety texture and lively carbonation. Lots of cocoa powder in the taste. Combined with the bit of tartness, there’s a flavor of chocolate covered cherries. Good balance, but too cocoa powdery and sweet to drink a whole bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jun 2011
at 18:42
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750ml bottle pours a hazy orange amber with a creamy, cloudy off white head. Nose smells like yahoo, raw cocoa pods, malty, earthy, dried leaves. Flavor is straight chocolate, sweet, lightly malty, a little butterscotch, caramel. Full bodied, sweet finish. Can’t believe how much raw chocolate flavor into a beer that looks like Fat Tire.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Jun 2011
at 21:11