Boulder Beer Shake Chocolate Porter
Our twist on the traditional american porter, Shake chocolate porter is black in color with rich, dark chocolate aromatics and flavors and subtle coffee-like notes. This unique brew blends five different grains, including Chocolate Wheat, that along with cacao nibs create a devilishly delicious chocolate finish with a velvety mouth feel.
3.7
617 reviews
Boulder, United States
Community reviews
Just what you would want in a chocolate porter. This brew hits you right away with copious amounts of chocolate in flavor. Little bit of vanilla and a slight bitter coffee taste, but has a very satisfying creamy feel to it. I’m a fan of the nugget hops used in this, which are typically used in IPA’s, but they make this addition pretty subtle and into a easy-drinking brew. This is a new favorite porter!
We had this in 2019 in Estes Park Colorado this was a wonderful dark beer that really had lots of chocolate flavor to it
07Aug2019 Dark chocolate, cacao, dark roast malts, pralines. Hazy, very dark brown, small, creamy, off-white head. Light sweet. More intense chocolate, cacao, chocolate cookie, toasted malts, soft carbonation, medium bodied. Very nice. Cask at GBBF19.
Cask at GBBF: Poured a reddish brown with off white head. Aroma is roasted malts. Taste is silk chocolate nice rich roast malts backbone some vanilla.
Dark brown pour. Coffee and chocolate nose. Unbelievable chocolate milk shake taste. Coffee and chocolate palate. Delicious!
I know most reviewers say this is more chocolate than coffee but I think the opposite. Either way a very nice brew but I don't honestly think I could have more than a few. It's niche beer but it's a good diversion from the ordinary.
Nutty, smooth and chocolatey in both aroma and taste. Great stuff. On draft at Old Chicago Pizza in Littleton, CO.
The aroma is as advertised it's deeply roasted with chocolate and hints of coffee and hops. The appearance is dark brown almost black with a tan frothy head. The taste is like the aroma with a long bittersweet finish. The palate is smooth. Overall worth driving.
A new family favorite. Had one in a bottle and the nitro at the brewery. Nitro Was like a glass of chocolate milk
thr aroma is caramel and chocolate with hints of vanilla, toffee, cocoa, bisquit and brown bread... the taste is caramel and chocolate with notes of toffee, cocoa, toast, cake and black bread... the aftertaste is sweet, bitter and dry...
Pours deep dark brown. Good size head initially, but it goes down very quickly leaving some lacing on the glass. Aroma is thick and rick, sweet and smooth. Sweet chocolate and molasses. Flavor of smooth sweetness, but a bit of a burnt coffee as well which is welcome and helps cut the sweetness so it isn't overpowering. Maybe I need to let it sit a bit longer, but I wish there was a bit less carbonation so it was a bit smoother in the mouth.
Sampled this first at a beerfest last weekend. Now I just tried a full 12 oz. sample, and didn't seem as good as the sample....mainly because the sweetness adds up by the end of 12 oz. vs only a 1-2 oz. pour. Still a solid brew, just a tad too much on the chocolate. I am not complaining cause I love chocolate, but the balance is slightly sweet for a porter. This tastes more like a milk stout to me. Near black appearance with a creamy textured feel. I wanted to get a 6-pack of this and still may, just so many other things out there that I get the idea after one.
Drank from the can. Smooth drinking. Chocolate forward, with good porter taste.
22-Oct-13 (22-oz bottle: Purchased 08-Nov-13 for $4.49 at The Bine & Vine Bottle Shop in San Diego, CA)
This beer pours a very dark-brown body with an inch of bubbly, light-tan head that settles to a creamy sheet and tall ring, leaving spotty lacing. The nose is just pure chocolate bar, sweet and intensely chocolatey with marshmallow, vanilla, and a touch of roast. On the palate, it's less intense on the sweet chocolate bar aspect, with more prominence of roast and bitter cacao, plus a lot of vanilla, Cocoa Puffs, and green leaves. It's that "green" aspect that hurts the overall impression for me. It's full bodied, medium in carbonation, and is surprisingly dry for such a chocolatey beer. Overall, I'm torn on whether I'd prefer this beer to just go all out on the chocolate bar character in the flavor, or keep it more balanced as they've done. It almost fails to deliver on the chocolate bar character that the nose suggests. It's good, but not great to me.
Opaque deep brown to black. Tan moderately lacing head. Nose: chocolate, dark mals, cream. Similar taste. Light body. Almost watery. Well-tasting.
Pours black, tan head Aroma is rich dark chocolate, chocolate shop aroma, then more roast malt as it warms. Chocolate forward, more milk chocolate bar than the aroma, sweet. Fairly light mouthfeel. Pleasant if one dimensional.
The aroma is caramel, chocolate, and vanilla; the aroma is a little artificial. Taste is chocolate, peanut butter, nutmeg, caramel, toasted malt and vanilla.
Nov 2018 - 355ml can at home in Richmond as 'Boulder Beer Shake', 5.9%, watching Forensic Files. Thin brown pour forms an opaque black beer with an uneven brown head that leaves thick lacing. Aroma is mostly knock-off Cocopops, chocolate milk, chocolate bread, some Ovaltine, some light paper and banana notes. Body is smooth with tingly carbonation. Taste is Ovaltine, chocolate cornflake cakes, cereal with chocolate milk, faint metallic notes. Very easy to drink but a touch artificial. (6-4-6-3-13=3.2)
Smells like a chocolate shake. Smooth look and good texture. A little crazy rich though. Too much like a shake and not a beer
Slight aftertaste
Bottle from Village Beer Merchants. V dark brown color. Nose chocolate, chocolate powder,. Fl lightly roasted malts, choc powder, fairly sweet, light bodied. So-so.
Bottle 17fl.oz. @home poured into a shaker. Opaque ruby brown, good frothy tan head, half-way lasting, fair lacing; aroma roasted malts, cocoa, chocolate, caramel; taste light heavy sweet and medium bitter, malty, chocolate, light vanilla; sweetbitter aftertaste, chocolate, toffee; medium body, oily texture, lively carbonation; tasty chocolate porter, good.
Pours black black. Generous head with resiliency. However taste was nothing that I expected. Maybe because it was close to year old. Chocolate was bitter and almost sting my tongue. Have to give it another try being fresher.
Terrific. Jet black. Lovely chocolate taste with coffee also. Bit like chocolate cake. Nice nuttiness. Fine strength. Lovely after taste. Possibly best I've ever had.
355ml bottle. Jet black colour with small to average, thick, creamy, moderately lasting and lacing, beige head. Sweet-ish, chocolately, malty aroma, notes of dark chocolate, couverture, cocoa, some toffee and coffee. Taste is chocolately dark malty, slightly bitter hoppy, notes of dark chocolate, toffee, cocoa, a touch of coffee, subtle sweetness; creamy texture, smooth and soft palate.
Aroma: tons of chocolate - like a chocolate milkshake; Appearance: pitch black with fluffy tan head that lingers; Taste: follows nose to some extent but watery; Overall: overly sweet and malty for a porter.
Bottle @ Rally, 8471 Lockwood Ridge Rd, Sarasota. One of the best Porters i've had yet! Pours black with thin tan head. Smells like a mocha chocolate shake from heaven. So warm & dark on the tongue...like Grandma's chocolate cake! Slight bitterness of dark chocolate & roast. Good to the last drop! Yummy, gimme an another.
This was such a great beer fresh from the tap. Full bodied and a wonderful deep milk and dark chocolate aroma with perfectly matching juicy flavor. Nuttiness and sweetness with no coffee flavor to taint this wonderful drink.
12 oz bottle at home, pours black with a thin tan head. The aroma is sweet chocolate. The flavor is smooth sweet chocolate from start to finish. If you like chocolate this is the beer for you. This is a very good chocolate beer.
My go to value beer. Nice, dark, velvety beer. It is on the sweeter side but I like that in this one. Lots of sweet chocolate in the taste, with mocha, and toasted oats. I like drinking it more from the bottle as the carbonation makes it more velvety, as well as the chocolate flavors being more pronounced. Whenever I pour it out, I get a bitter hop finish from it, with lessened chocolate flavor. Drank many of these in my time in CO, and will continue drinking them.
great chocolate aroma and well balanced flavor. all that aroma sort of threw me off, i thought it was gonna be much sweeter. but thats ok i dont like super sweet anyways