Breckenridge 72 Imperial Chocolate Cream Stout
Brewed with chocolate from Colorado’s very own Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory, Inc., this Imperial Chocolate Cream Stout is full of rich, toasted chocolate notes with hints of dark fruit. 72 Imperial will take you where you need to go. Just sit back and enjoy the ride.
3.6
324 reviews
Littleton, United States
Community reviews
Big nose of roasted chocolate. Dark black with lasting layer of tan head. Big dry chocolate hits first then as the bitter reaches its max the cream slide through to fill out this beer. Lasting cream after the sip. Smooth expressive and delicious.
Bottle at Jason’s, courtesy of Jason. Thanks man! Pour is deep brown, almost black with a small tan head and good lacing. Cocoa, vanilla, some toffee, caramel, light coffee and bready malty aroma. Taste is brown sugar, twangy malty, vanilla, light cocoa, roasty, bready, caramel, and husky with a semi-sweet finish. Meidium body with light carbonation. Not bad.
Milk chocolate, caramel, roast, black licorice and dark fruit in the aroma. Complex, but the chocolate comes off a bit fake. Very pretty dark brown, slightly see through with a tiny ring of tan foam. The taste is more roasty than I expected with some dark chocolate and caramel. Not overly sweet, tastes bigger than the 7.2% ABV would suggest. The palate is a little thin and the carbonation is a little high. Good, not great. The artificial quality in the taste and the thinness of the palate knock it down a few levels for me.
chocolate, caramel, earthy, licorice, vanilla, black, clear, minimal head, tan foam, medium sweetness, lightly bitter, medium body, thick feel, soft carbonation, long finish,
Bottle at home... Dark black... Thin tan lacing... Dark roast.. Soft chocolate malt dark roast..soft chocolate roast.. Soft vanilla malts... Ice cream vanilla... The vanilla dies to leave soft whisky
Vanilla and metal on the nose. Light coloured. Bit fizzy. Thin. Sweet. Rusty. Don’t like it near as much as some.
12 oz bottle from Giant Eagle in Pittsburgh. This was quite nice, excellent all around. My friend who shared the bottle agreed.
From 22oz bottle to snifter. Pour is a black color with a thick and frothy tan head. Nose is huge chocolate, roasted malt, caramel, slight vanilla. Taste is heavy bodied, mostly sweet with touches of bitterness. Super silky mouthfeel. Awesome chocolate beer
The beer is a little watery for a cream stout, which makes it very easy to drink. I hoped a little more creamy/milky body. The taste is a perfect balance of biter chocolate, sweetness and coffee. So good.
Bottle, 12oz. A dark, dark brown beer topped by some dark beige bubbles. The aroma is chocolatey and roasted with a soft cofffee touch and hints of burnt malts. It’s full-bodied, oily and very softly carbonated. Semi-dry, but there’s a sweet flavor to it. Chocolate, roasted malts and black coffee in the flavor. Lasting finish. A bit simple this one, lacking on complexity, but it’s a decent beer indeed. Perhaps going much better with a couple of scoops of quality ice cream. 150611
Bottle 355ml @ Hotel Room, Best Western Plus, Waterbury, VT
Pours dark brown with a small off-white head. Aroma has notes of roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, dark fruits and hint of lactose. Taste is medium sweet and light to medium bitter with a long roasted, milk chocolate, coffee and fruity finish. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat.
Light aroma clean Coco notes. Dark with no head some tan lacing. Taste is chocolate all day.. Milk, dark, bakers it’s all there. Smooth feel. Sticky on the lips. Very nice
Bottle. Moderate malt notes of dark bread and dark chocolate, light toasted orange peel and dough for the hops and yeast, with hints of licorice and cola. Head is small, wispy, light tan with good lacing and good legs, and is mostly diminishing. Color is very dark brown. Flavor starts moderately to heavily sweet and lightly acidic, then finishes moderately sweet and lightly better. Palate is on the fuller side of medium, creamy to syrupy, and has a lively carbonation with a lightly to moderately alcoholic. Maybe a touch too sweet, but mostly an easy sipping Sweet Stout.
12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, best before 3/19/2015. Pours fairly pitch black color with a 1 finger dense tan head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Light spotty lacing clings around the glass. Aromas of milk chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, toffee, toast, dark bread, vanilla, cream, light nuttiness, light herbal, and toasted earthiness. Very nice aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/bready malt and chocolate notes; with good strength. Taste of big milk chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, toffee, toast, dark bread, vanilla, cream, light nuttiness, light herbal, and toasted earthiness. Light roasted bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of milk chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, toffee, toast, dark bread, vanilla, cream, and toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Damn nice robustness, complexity, and balance of dark/bready malt and chocolate flavors; with a good roasted bitter/sweet balance and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Light carbonation and medium bodied; with a very smooth, moderately creamy, and lightly slick/bready mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is a damn nice imperial cream stout style. All around great robustness, complexity, and balance of dark/bready malt and chocolate flavors; and very smooth to drink for the ABV. A very enjoyable offering.
12 oz bottle poured into a tulip glass..dark brown with a thin tan head..aroma of chocolate,coffee,dark fruits..tastes like it smells..creamy mouthfeel..good,solid stout.
Pours dark with a tan head. Toasty cocoa aroma. Smooth mouthfeel. Taste the chocolate, turns a bit bittersweet on the swallow, and lingers into the aftertaste, very nice. Does have a bit of a creamy feel to it. One of the better chocolate stouts I have tried. Will have again.
Loads of cocoa in the aroma and flavor. Sweet, creamy, a little earthy. Tasty and drinkable. On tap, Proof.
Pours black with tan head. Aroma is chocolate and roast. Lots of roast, quite a bit of smoke also. Followed by creamy chocolate. Pretty yum.
Bottle. Pours a very dark brown/black with a tan head. Aroma was roasty with chocolate and vanilla. flavor was mildly sweet with milk chocolate, roasted malts, vanilla and light coffee. Very smooth & creamy. A decent stout
Bottle from Kensington Liquors from my Hopslam run. Very dark brown pour, with a brown head. Aroma has thickly layered bakers chocolate, caramel and molasses. Later some dark fruits showed through. Taste is of sweet caramel, bittersweet chocolate, some roast, some molasses and some creme de cacao. Medium to full bodied and not very smooth, with some alcohol. Finishes mostly sweet, but with a solid bitter kick fighting to be noticed - a nice balance for a "sweet stout". Not too smooth, the blend could have perhaps turned out better. 13.6
12 oz bottle pours black, big fat frothy brown head. This thing smelled and tasted like a milk chocolate drink from my youth called Kayo. It brought back memories, and I’m probably dating myself.
Let me just say this, I enjoyed this for what it was, and I feel my rating was accurate, but as a flashback, this is a 5.0, without a doubt. I love it.
Burnt brown appearance with light spitty, spotty light lace. Aroma of vanilla, nutty like, chocolate, minerally light roast, slight fruit maybe. Taste is rich smooth slick, with refined caramel malts/roast malts, hint of booze but not much, chocolate flavor more noticeable in finish, light roast/ashyness. Has some berry like flavor as I get a lot in dark beer, particularly black berry boysen berry or blueberry. Has some dryness in finish. Overall pretty good a bit refined and mildy complex but somewhat generic at the same time almost but maybe not. Ive had a lot of bad experiences with Breckenridge but this one did pretty well. They did well with the chocolate character in this.
Bottle. Cola brown. Roasted fudge aroma. The taste follows with a pillowy marshmallow finish. Creamy feel with soft light carb.
12 oz bottle:
Pours dark, almost black. Medium tan head.
Aroma of chocolate, roasted malts, vanilla.
Taste is bitter with strong chocolate and a vanilla finish. Good malt backbone.
Smooth, creamy, just a tad thin.
Nice aroma and appearance. Thin palate. Taste a letdown from aroma. Earthy metallic thin. No thanks
Tap. Pours a dark cola brown with a thin spotty layer of tan head. Was interesting due to the creamy sweetness intermingling with the higher abv. Aroma and taste of milk chocolate, roasted malts, and some hints of vanilla.
Nose of chocOlate cream and roast. A little vanilla perhspsz dark brown pour not much head great lace horrible spelling. Fuck off, Flavors of chocolate cream roast pretty much it. Pleasant beer. Gonna start doing weeheavysd ratings to catch up to tom. But I'm not going to get a sex change. Fuck that shit. That isn't cool. 😘
Pour from the bottle is dark brown with a off white to brown head, aroma is chocolate little bit of alcohol notes in the back, carbonation is very good, taste is chocolate and toffee nut, finish is a little bitter, overall this is a pretty good beer
Draft - Fudgy dark rich chocolate with cream. Deep maroon with a rich brown head. Tons of rich chocolate and light sweet creamy notes.
This beer pours a clear but very, very dark brown with a large tan head that fades quickly. The aroma blends roasted malts, cream, milk chocolate, and a hint of vanilla. The taste is mildly sweet and slightly bitter with an aftertaste that is reminiscent of chocolate milk. The palate fuses an oily texture, medium-light body, and a soft carbonation.