Cordillera Blanca
Sonoran Brewing Company in Phoenix, Arizona, United States 🇺🇸
Spiced / Herbed / Vegetable / Honey - Spiced Regular|
Score
6.43
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Cordillera Blanca (kawr-dl-yair-uh) or White Mountains, loosely translated to English, is the newest additions to the Sonoran Brewing line of products. This White Chocolate Ale is light, refreshing, and completely unique! Like most fine chocolates, this brew has delicate aroma and the subtle taste of White Chocolate that is truly astonishing!
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6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
WHT CHCLT ALE. 12 oz. can from Total Wine, Scottsdale, AZ. Pours a hazy pale yellow color with a large white head and great retention. Spotty lacing. Lots of streaming carbonation. Vanilla and roasted malts aroma. As advertised, it does taste like white chocolate and beer, but not as roasted as the aroma suggested. Thin mouthfeel. Lightly sweet with a light, almost fruity finish. Very easy drinking.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Oct 2021
at 22:53
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle sample at Beer Study bottle share in Durham as WHT CHCLT Ale. hazy golden yellow color. Aroma really is white chocolate. Taste is a bit more cocoa and medicine.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jan 2017
at 08:26
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Phoenix Ale Brewery, pours a cloudy golden with a medium white head. Aroma brings out pure white chocolate upfront, not much else. Flavour is along the same lines, with semi-sweet white chocolate notes and a subtle soft pillow wheat base. Nice gimmick beer - works pretty well.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Jul 2016
at 12:02
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle, thanks to Misterburd. Pours cloudy golden yellow with small off-white foamy head, chocolate malt aroma, high carbonation, lightly bitter, strong white chocolate taste, thin body, long chocolate finish. Very strange feeling, it’s also a bit heavy.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 May 2016
at 15:19
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Brewed at The Phoenix Ale Brewery. My first bottle exploded, so got another and fridged it immediately. Still has quite a poof on opening. Monster off-white foamy head which relaxes to a very hazy, somewhat dirty gold. Aroma on deep inhale actually suggests white chocolate. Med body or so. Quite carbonated. Flavor is essentially chocolate - and it’s not the dark thing. Not cocoa. But apparently cocoa butter is considered to be chocolate. Interesting stuff.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Mar 2015
at 19:10
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottle, thanks to _Angst_, split at Colin and the Vikings tasting, Nol, Goteborg, Sweden 22/03/14 as Sonoran White Chocolate Ale. Hazed orange with a moderate off white covering. Nose is bitter fruits, spie, citric peel, straw. Taste comprises pale malts, citrus, pretty bland, lemon rind, grassy. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Very mediocre stuff no subtle taste of white chocolate, tased like an astonishingly average pale lager !!!
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Apr 2014
at 14:08
3.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
How: Bottle.
Where: Tasting at Colin and the Vikings, Göteborg. Courtesy of _angst_
Appearance: Light yellow colour with a large white head.
Aroma: Not much and certainly not any kind of chocolate. Malt I guess, perhaps some fruit or vegetable.
Body: Light body, medium carbonation.
Flavour: Sure isn’t chocolate, neither dark nor white. Sour.
Where: Tasting at Colin and the Vikings, Göteborg. Courtesy of _angst_
Appearance: Light yellow colour with a large white head.
Aroma: Not much and certainly not any kind of chocolate. Malt I guess, perhaps some fruit or vegetable.
Body: Light body, medium carbonation.
Flavour: Sure isn’t chocolate, neither dark nor white. Sour.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Mar 2014
at 23:17
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle at the "Colin and the Vikings tasting, Goteborg". Poured a hazy straw coour with a thin white head. The aroma is neutral veggie. The flavour is neutral veggie herb with a watery neutral palate. Chocolate?? White, dark? Nothing at all really and no flavour.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Mar 2014
at 09:20
3.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Bottle received as extra in trade. Thank you Daknole! Labeled white Chocolate Ale. Pours tiny hazy golden with a small frothy white head that doesn’t leave much trace on the glass while dissipating. Smell is, well, strange with unfermented grains, low quality white chocolate, cereal, lemon zest, soil, hay and milk duds. Taste is tiny sweet, tiny bitter and tiny sour with grains, crackers, cereal, lemon juice, vanilla beans, hay, dry soil and possibly hints of white chocolate if you really try hard to find it. Mouthfeel is crisp, phenolic astringent and light bodied. Finish is bitter and tiny sour with grains, cereal, hay, dry soil and lemon zest. Not my cup of tea at all. Hopefully i’ll get the chance to see what Arizona really has to offer at some point.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Mar 2014
at 09:11
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Location: Draft at O.H.S.O., 3/8/14, as White Chocolate
Aroma: The nose is sweet and malty, white chocolate is very present here
Appearance: It pours a cloudy golden color with a pretty decent sized white head on it
Flavor: The taste is sweet and chocolaty, without enough balance to it
Palate: The body is light-medium, it has a soft carbonation, and a smooth, creamy finish
Overall Impression: I thought this was a nice beer, but it was too sweet for me. Well-made though. No complaints, I'm just not the target market.
Aroma: The nose is sweet and malty, white chocolate is very present here
Appearance: It pours a cloudy golden color with a pretty decent sized white head on it
Flavor: The taste is sweet and chocolaty, without enough balance to it
Palate: The body is light-medium, it has a soft carbonation, and a smooth, creamy finish
Overall Impression: I thought this was a nice beer, but it was too sweet for me. Well-made though. No complaints, I'm just not the target market.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Mar 2014
at 15:13