12 oz bottle from the mix six pack. First, the Chocolate Wheat, followed by the mixing of this and the Belgian White. So, plain Chocolate Wheat: aroma is chocolaty, vanilla, whiff of vomit that isn’t as bothersome as it would seem (it goes away after awhile). Pours mahogany with a collapsing beige head. Taste is extremely strong in vanilla, chocolate secondary. This tastes a lot like that Michelob winter seasonal AB used to release a few years ago before the Shock Top brand took off--Winters Bourbon Cask Ale. I wonder if it’s the same beer under a new name. Sweet with no bitterness. Fairly watery, like all Shock Top beers. Tastes good, though. Now on to the black and tan-like mixing of this and the Belgian White: the aroma reveals mostly the Belgian White--moldy orange peel and coriander with the Chocolate beer peeking through only a little. Top half of the glass is paler than the bottom, but doesn’t look as dramatically different as a true black and tan. I probably fucked it up. Head is much nicer than the chocolate beer by itself after I poured the Belgian White over the back of a spoon: has a large, long-sustaining mostly beige head with darker patterns from the chocolate beer. After the head settles into a skiff of foam, the two beers mingle together in the nose more. Taste is also a mingle of the two. Since the chocolate beer is superior to nasty old regular Shock Top, it brings the flavor score down two points. Same goes for the aroma, which drops a point. Overall, an interesting idea, but the chocolate beer isn’t all that bad and regular Shock Top is. Mixing the two is a failed experiment. 5, 5, 6, 3,14=3.3 for the mixing of the two.

Well here’s a surprise, quite possibly the best A-B beer I have ever had. Pours a dark reddish brown with foaming head into a wheat beer glass. OK so its supposed to be a Belgian wheat beer, which I don’t really understand, it has more of a clean profile, no phenols, notes of chocolate mostly on the nose and flavor. Smooth palate, easy finishing. I don’t really understand the wheat beers recently being used for winter seasonals, but I guess I don’t care, a good beer is a good beer any time of year.

Bottle, 0.355l. Cloudy golden color with small frothy, fully diminishing off-white head and sparkling appearance. Aroma of raspberry, bubblegum, citrus and wheat. Taste starts with light sweet grainy malt, following is refreshing fruity with citrus and raspberry notes, mouthfeel is spicy, while finish is mild bitter. Medium body, slick texture and fizzy carbonation in palate. I’m thinking about new song called raspberry fields forever :) However, taste is so-so...

Bottle (trade with Patrickctenchi for a Struise Black Albert). Cocoa and wheat malt aroma. Dark brown with small head. Mildly sweet cocoa and wheat malt flavor. Probably the best Shock Top.

Bottle. Nice dark look to it. Smell is a little malty. Decent sizzle to it on the first taste. Fairly smooth and easy. Yes, does have some choco in the finish. Quite easy, reminds me a little of many American dark lagers; smooth easy to take and fairly friendly. Does not really resemble milk chocolate, not as sweet as expected. Not bad overall but sometimes that choco thing comes across a little artificial.

Had this in a can during my last visit back to Montreal, I thought it was an American craft import. Turns out it is a "crafty beer", no big surprise there as while they were in the ballpark for a witbier, I felt it wasn’t as cloudy as usual or flavorful. Middle of the road but ok.

Bottle. A- Chocolate, spices, vanilla. A- Dark brown color, dark liquid, white head. T- Chocolate, vanilla, spices, slightly malty. P- Medium body, average texture, average carbonation, rich finish. O- Not horrible, but not great. I just had it alone not mixed with Shock Top’s Belgian White like recommended. Not sure if that would have made it better or not.