Gordon Choco Squad
John Martin in Genval, Walloon Brabant, Belgium 🇧🇪
Belgian Style - Dark Regular|
Score
6.42
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Icedwarf (4850) reviewed Gordon Choco Squad from John Martin 2 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Donker roodbruin bier met schuim. Smaak is licht bitterzoet met overduidelijk iets van chocolade, wat koffie, marsepein en een vleug hazelnoot.
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Gordon Choco Squad from John Martin 2 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
New variations are added to the infamous Gordon brand every now and then and when I saw this one pass by on social media, I just had to have it, if only just for 'fun': a chocolate-flavoured Scotch, or at least that is what it pretends to be. Medium sized, lacing, pale yellowish beige, moussey head slowly breaking over a crystal clear, deep amber-bronze robe with mahogany brown hue. Aroma of Chocotoff candy, candied cherries, bubblegum, caramel, rosewater, banana peel, cheap brandy, glue, treacle, industrial white sugar syrup, natural rubber - in all, notably less off-putting than feared, I must say. Sweet onset of course but in a simple, sugary way, clean and 'esterless' apart from perhaps a vague touch of fig; medium carb, very slick body, thinnish for its strength, with a cereally core admittedly piling up some caramelly maltiness on top - more so than expected. The promised chocolate effect, though, remains superficial, thin, unconvincing and volatile - in fact there hardly is one, as the whole 'dark sweetness' of this concoction taste more like caramel than like chocolate. Some toasty bitterish malts reside in the finish, hops are only virtually present and a gin-like alcohol presence accentuates both that caramelly sweetness and that toasty aspect of the malts, but there are also glueish, rubbery and plastic-like elements that remind you of the fact that you are still drinking a Gordon. That said, this is a variant on the classic Gordon Scotch ale rather than the umpteenth infernal addition to that truly nightmare-inducing range of Gordon strong lagers, and that I was not expecting at all. Superficial, soulless, thin and silly as it may be, this simple observation means that I disliked this Choco Squad far less than I was expecting - or perhaps even hoping, in view of this Gordon brand being one of my pet hates in beer. Not good at all, of course, just not as infernally bad as anticipated...
Scopey (25061) reviewed Gordon Choco Squad from John Martin 8 months ago
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from House of Trembling Madness. It pours clear brown with a medium fluffy white head. The aroma is soft, toasty, might malt, malt loaf, cocoa powder, chocolate bourbon biscuits and some nuttiness. The taste is crisp upfront, dry, toasty grains, chocolate bourbons, nutty, praline, cocoa powder, nip of booze, quite raw and heady, Horlicks and malt loaf with a toasty finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. It's ok, nice elements to it, but a bit rough around the edges.
Hanoi (1973) reviewed Gordon Choco Squad from John Martin 9 months ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle. Nose is chocolate, hint of candy floss, marzipan, slightly marshmallowy. Taste is woody, catering chocolate, lots of marzipan, sugar almond, hints of hazelnut. A woody lightly bitter finish stops it being cloying.
It's a bit of a mess, the base beer seems OK, but it tastes like flavouring gloop and syrup poured in rather than a beer brewed with adjuncts. Tastes a little bit how vapes smell, with too bright flavours and no depth,
gave a cheers!