Nuts for Chocolate
Jopen in Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Collab with: Odell Brewing CompanyBelgian Style - Blonde / Pale / Amber Special Out of Production
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Score
6.43
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“This Collab with Odell Brewing from Fort Collins (USA) is a twisted blonde brewed with almond and cocoa. We kept the malt bill back to let the nuts and cocoa be in the lead. The cocoa (from De Zaan in Wormer) is not roasted to enhance the fruity aspects of the cocoa. All together the end result is a beer that is rich and creamy, with nutty and fruity flavors. “
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5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle at home. Aroma is malty and a bit nutty with floral notes, some yeast and a touch of bubblegum from the hops in the finish. Only a very slight hint of cocoa. Flavour is moderate sweet and light bitter. Body is medium. Well, this is certainly a disappointment, only mildly nutty and where’s the big chocolate??
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Feb 2025
at 04:51
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottled August 31, 2016, drunk 1/28/2024. Deep bronze-brass, clear, with a small, white head sitting at cover. Chocolatey, with fruity yeast and some cracker and biscuit. Moderately sweet, it seems. Clean. Nutty, chocolatey, light graham cracker and vanilla. Straightforward maltiness, light spice and earth. Uhh, this is competent, albeit strange and very not compelling. Wish there was more yeast character and less choco-almond. Very strange that that's the case at 8 years old....that said, it's impressively lacking almost any oxidation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jan 2024
at 21:56
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
4 oz. sample at El Bait Shop, De Monies, Iowa. Aroma has light malt, chocolate bar hints and smashed nuts. Maybe just a mild floral hop hiding in there. Taste is malty and semi-sweet with chocolate and more of the smashed nuts. It also does have a light floral hop that helps cut the sweet candy bar. Finish is almost bone dry.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Sep 2017
at 13:31
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draught @ Taphouse, Lavendelstræde 15, Copenhagen, Denmark 1462. [ As Jopen / Odell Nuts For Chocolate ].Clear medium orange yellow colour with a small to average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, pale malt, sweet malt, light chocolate, light almond - marzipan malt. Flavor is moderate sweet with a long duration, chocolate - vanilla, sweet malt - marzipan malt, pale malt, almond. Odd !! Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20170520] 6-3-6-3-13
Tried
from Draft
on 11 Jul 2017
at 07:28