Cocoa Loco
Arcadia Brewing Co. in Elk Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.67
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The triple choclate stout is a unique interpretation of the style, combining three different chocolate malts, cacao nibs and 63 percent semi-sweet chocolate, making it a sinfully delicious brew. The addition of blackstrap molasses produces an earthy, caramelized tone in an already complex flavor profile. It's creamy, milkshake-like mouthfeel earns this beer the distinction of being dessert in glass.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
22 oz. bottle, 2006 batch. I’ve had this in a hot car for a week, so I’m being a tad kinder. Pours nice and black. My shaker glass seems to kick up big heads of foam, this one settled to a thin creamy brown head. Smell of chocolate milk. Taste starts lactic and sweet. Cocoa notes are subdued; there’s a slight tinge of cigar tobacco and sour cherry (that may be from the hot car trip) and even a little vanilla. Alcohol in the background, but goes down pretty well. Leaves stickiness on the lips.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Jul 2007
at 09:19
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle pours a fairly thin black with a thin light tan head. thin spotty lacing. Aroma of chocolate and brown sugar. Flavor is slightly sweet light roasted and lots of tootsie roll chocolate. Some of that slightly sour porter noye. Smooth and softly carbonated.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jul 2007
at 20:59
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pour is the blackest i have ever seen a beer. Aroma is roasted malts and some chocolate. Flavor is more in your face. Lots of coffee with some chocolate and some wood smoke. Not overpowering in any catagory but that just makes it a bit more easy to drink. Worth looking for.
Tried
on 26 Jun 2007
at 20:37
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Shared by csbosox at Waldo Pizza, Kansas City, MO. Enjoyed with csbosox, Indra, tjthresh and dansting. Pour is a dark brown, heading towards black with a khaki head. Served room temperature, arome really popped out of this one. Very sweet chocolate and a bit roast in the aroma. Taste was milky, and very drinkable. I was surprised to see this listed as a FES, as it was far creamier, without the bite of a normal FES. Regardless, it was a nice stout.
Tried
on 24 Jun 2007
at 13:12
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Sampled on draft at Rivertowne Inn in North Huntingdon PA this beer poured a black color with a small tan head. The aroma was lightly sweet and roasty with a floral hop undertone. The flavor was bitter and roasty with a lactose like element and a fairly strong alcohol burn. There is a hint of chocolate that comes through on the long and bitter finish. The mouthfeel is smooth and creamy though a little thinner than I expected. A bit more chocolate comes out as the beer warms but the chocolate is rather subtle given the name.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Mar 2007
at 18:43
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. Deep opaque brown body, medium tight buff head. Heavy cocoa aroma, sweet and somewhat syrupy, lactic. Round, creamy body, rich with chocolate, dry roast and coffee. Has that peculiar grape Dimetapp characteristic common to Arcadia beers, and the tart, syrupy lactic notes become overwhelming after awhile. Alcohol detectable but light. A tad cloying but all in all I liked it.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Feb 2007
at 16:12
4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 2
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Dark tan head. On tap at the Trivia Pub in Moon. Pitch black color. Has the aroma of an imperial stout. Small hints of roasty bitter alcohol. This initially seems more palate able than Lion stout. Pretty ruff stuff. Typical imp stout impressive personality. I’m not sure what the difference is between imp stout and foreign stout, but they sure are closely related. Lots of bitterness, as expected after sampling the aroma. After awhile, I think I find myself rather accepting its intrusiveness. The head finally fades to a thin froth. Very little carbonation and the obnoxious excrescence is still with me. The creamy buttery qualities are overtaken by the medicinal tastes of this brew. The finish is a little creamy oily and it behaves like any other imp stout. I have yet to get used to the imp stout style. Roasty bitter malt finish hangs & lingers for a while. I don’t detect much if any cocoa in there.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Feb 2007
at 20:07
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tap at HDG - very dark, nearly black out of the tap, with a large, bubbly, tan ice cream float kind of head - light, dry cocoa aroma, with hints of minerals, a little bit of coffee - smooth mouthfeel, but a little thin on the palate for my taste - somewhat sweet, and quite chocolatey, but there is a kind of milk-like sweetness that makes the beer start to taste like chocolate milk or yoohoo after a while - light bitterness in the finish tries to help balance this quality, but doesn’t quite do the job - decent, but I think I’m giving up on Arcadia.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Dec 2006
at 20:13