Chocolate Ale
Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Strong Ale - American Rotating|
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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8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
25 cl Boulevard tulip draft at Swagger Kansas City, Missouri. Pour is brownish golden copper, mostly clear with a smallish off white head. Aroma is a really pure cocoa chocolate aroma, shockingly clean and clear. Some malt bitterness underneath, but this is really about the high quality chocolate. Tastes starts with softly bittersweet cocoa, followed close behind with a sharp maltiness, bright, full flavored. As with the nose, I am really impressed with how naturally and purely the chocolate flavor comes through. Palate is medium to thin bodied, nice level of carbonation, and a dry clean finish. Other than a warming in the chest, I really did not notice the abv. Nice one fellas, I have not had a chocolate beer which even remotely captures the essence of chocolate this well.
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from Draft
on 11 Feb 2011
at 09:53