Additional notes 07/13/23

One of the relatively new, 12 oz slender bottles.

Ostensibly a black pour, but some red-garnet highlights at the edges. Head decent, but retention and lace not great.

Nose is a cocoa powder extravaganza, quite extraordinary. Tastes are a bit more chocolate milk-like, but either way the chocolate element is quite pronounced. That’s a good thing for a beer labeled this way. It does seem to get sweeter on warming, and with building volume. Despite the organic label, to me, the chocolate doesn’t seem that natural.

It’s not a substantial beer, a little thin for me, and although it’s sweet it isn’t thick and cloying. So in terms of the mouthfeel it’s both good and bad. Drinkable, but doesn’t really have a huge amount of presence.

Not a beer I’m that interested in, and I probably haven’t drunk this more than a few times in 30+ years before making these notes in 2023.

Original notes 11/27/14

Nose and tastes are big, ‘beer chocolate’ notes.

Light, drinkable about relatively sweet.

I prefer the light moth feel and relatively gentle approach of this beer over many similar, American based chocolate situates.

Light aftertaste, slight lingering all good.

550 mL bottle, USDA Organic certified.