Fort Collins Chocolate Stout
Chocolate malt and roasted barley provide the dark color and fully body of chocolate stout. Toasy accents and a hoppy dryness add to this smooth brew. An old time favorite you’ll remember.
3.3
687 reviews
Fort Collins, United States
Community reviews
Pours black with a head that would look more appropriate on a soda. Very little aroma, only some coffee. Taste of thin black malt and little else. Watery, I think they forgot to add the base malt.
Black with no head. Aroma is roasty and slightly smokey. Flavor is light, and slightly roasty. Very bland stout.
Find this to be very lackluster and uninspiring. Very bland chocolate flavor and rather thin for my liking. Nothing was really appealing about this for me.
Poured from a regular bottle into a pint glass to drink. The beer had a slightly thick, watery dark brown-black color with a good-sized creamy tan head with shorter retention but good cling and lacing. Its roasty aroma featured a blend of earthy tones with malt, including caramel, toffee, and chocolate. The taste was sweet with notes of chocolate, caramel, a bit of coffee and some lighter earthy, grainy bitterness at the finis. The beer had a pretty wet and watery mouthfeel with low carbonation and was a touch and creamy.
Poured into shaker from bottle. Dark opaque brown with fair-sized tan head and some chocolate aroma. Not so much chocolate to the flavor, mainly just malt. Mildly bitter finish but not long - it’s too watery a beer to leave much of an aftertaste.
Chocolate-hued and thick in appearance, with a dense and sticky sandy tan head. Aroma is nice -- Cocoa powder, milk, splashes of coffee and sourdough. The flavor is mild, for a chocolate stout. Soft cocoa in the front is followed by the soft bite of roasted malt. Very clean, balanced finish. Almost a little too insubstantial -- I’d like more lingering chocolate. Poundable, though.
Twelve ounce bottle from Fort Collins variety pack purchased at The Party Source. Opaque brown color, nice firm roasted malt/chocolate nose, good flavor like the aroma plus coffee-like notes. Only negative note is a slight medicinal/chemical taste without which this rating would be higher. Still well worth trying.
12oz bottle from Brewmaster’s in Wilson. Black hue, zero visibility with mostly lasting medium khaki head. Excellent lacing. Roasted coffee, light chocolate malt and citrus hop aromas. Dark malt heavy up front with a light chocolate malt and coffee bean finish. Creamy mouthfeel.
Not a flavorful stout. Very watery in texture and flavor. Strong roasted grain flavor. Slightly bitter. Smells roasted to the nose
From 12oz bottle to shaker. Pour is a nice dark brown, almost black with a dark brown head. Nose is heavy coffee, roasted malt, chocolate. Taste is medium bodied, mostly bitter with hints of sweetness as well. Finishes sharply with a lingering taste. Not a bad beer, just a little on the flat side.
12 oz bottle. Dark brown, thin tan head, no retention, no lace.
Roasted malt aroma, mild coffee.
Flavor is roasted malt, chocolate, iced coffee.
Thin body for a stout, more like a porter.
On tap at Ethyl & Tank in Columbus Ohio. Fort Collins chocolate stout is a dark brown black beer with a thin head of tan bubbles. nose is rich dark chocolate with a nice black coffee hint. Taste is more roasty coffee, dark chocolate goodness resolving into very nice bitter chocolate finish.
12 oz bottle into a pint glass.
A: Pours a very dark brown color. The head is about a finger high, with a khaki shade. It’s somewhat soft and creamy, but not impressively so. Retention isn’t fantastic, either. A decent ring of lacing is left behind, which seems to fade away with time.
S: Well, there is some chocolate...just not a lot of it. I pick up a mild note of floral hops, too. There’s also some roasted malt, and even more in the way of nuts and caramel. Closer to a brown ale than a stout (much less a porter), but really not bad at all. I kind of expected worse.
T: Just like the nose suggested - it feels like I’m drinking a brown ale. A mild wave of brown sugar and chocolate opens it up, transforming into a gently roasted dryness on the finish. Touches of floral hops appear at times. Since they didn’t add actual chocolate (just chocolate malt), I can forgive the mildness of the chocolate flavor. There just isn’t anything here to ’wow’ me, though.
M: I like how dry and crisp it is. It just isn’t very substantial feeling. I believe a great stout should dry AND luxurious feeling; frankly, this is a bit watery. Come to think about it, it’s not even that dry, either - I’m feeling some residual sugar on the palate. Only when the semi-zesty carbonation fades does this really make it feel any richer.
O: Rather bland and unassuming. I knew this wouldn’t be Choklat, but did it have to be this boring to drink? It’s an okay gateway craft beer, though.
EDIT: It’s becoming more watery as I drink it. Time to drop the scores some.
On tap at Stout pub in Atlanta where it is listed as "House Chocolate Stout".
Only had a thin head from the tap and this didn’t last long. An appealing aroma filled with chocolate and dark bread.
The flavor had more toffee than usual and less really dark roasted grain. It does have plenty of dark roasted malt flavor but minimal char and smoke and is lightly sweet until the mildly bitter aftertaste.
As per appearance, light carbonation with a body that’s a touch too thin.
O: pleasant and recommended stout.
Drank from a twelve ounce bottle purchased from Bottle King. Aroma is smokey milk chocolate. Little to non carbonation with a silky feel on the tounge. Chocolately taste with a bit of a hop finish.
How: Bottle.
Where: The Bishops Arms Gamla Stan, Stockholm.
Appearance: Dark brown colour with a small beige head.
Aroma: Sausage, smoked malt, caramel, some chocolate.
Body: Light body, medium carbonation.
Flavour: Sausage, chocolate, tar, smoked malt.
Bottle. Pours a dark brown black color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty chocolate aroma. Roasted malty chocolate and caramel flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate finish.
Bottle. Dark brown pour. Aroma is milk, chocolate, vanilla and some malts. Taste is watery chocolate and some vanilla. A bit thin but good flavor. Mild carbonation. OK at best.
Black color with a fine beige head. Ok lacing. Mild roasted and vanilla aroma. Medium light) body. Tad sweet and a mild bitterness. Oily texture and a bit soft carbonation. Mild coffee, some chocolate, mild vanilla and some roasted notes. A bit thin, otherwise ok.
[Bottle at 3 Små Rum in Gothenburg, Sweden]
Not a grata chocolate stout, but not the worst either. Just doesn't sit in the way I wanted it to on the palate.
Bottle at Tre Små Rum, Göteborg. Thanks to Cunningham! Black beer with a small beige head. Roasted vanilla aroma, caramel, figs and raisins, some cocoa. Roasted fig and cocoa aroma, licorice, vinous, soot notes. Kinda thin bodied.
Had on nitro tap. Light with some tasting of cHocolate. Heavy head but dissipated quickly. No bitter taste. Very creamy
Aroma: coffee,chocolate, brown sugar, toasted malt.Appearance: dark black, creamy off white head. Taste. Malty. Coffee. Ash. Acid late.Feel. Thin, porter like. Medium carbonation .My kind of beer, but far from the best of that kind.
Orig 10.22.14, Update 12.31.14
Rating lowered. Aroma is nice, but Taste falls flat. Very blah for a chocolate stout.
Bottle at Churchills in Denver
Black with a small beige head and some lacing. Mild aroma of dark malts. Taste of dark malts and chocolate
Ok, thin
355ml bottle. I am a fan of their imperial chocolate stout, this oen is noticeably smokier in the smell and much dryer in body. It is a classic american stout,on the smokier stout, it isn’t super chocolatey like its imperial counterpart. It is overall a bit weak though.
Transfer from BA review on 6-8-13-
Poured from bottle into a pint glass
Appearance – Pours a nearly pitch black color with a one finger tan colored head. The head fades relativity fast leaving a moderate level of lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is of a heavy roasted malt smell mixed with a sweet chocolate/cocoa aroma as well as some sweeter notes of vanilla and some caramel.
Taste – The taste begins with a roasted malt flavor with some lighter dark chocolate flavors. The flavor is lightly sweet upfront with it growing even slightly sweeter as the flavor advances toward the middle of the taste. The sweeter flavors are mainly of a chocolate and light vanilla flavor but have hints of an almost lighter fruit like sweetness and a bit of caramel mixed within. Toward the end a bit of bitterness comes to the tongue in the form of a more earthy and herbal hop flavor leaving a rather roasted, moderately dry and chocolaty flavor to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel –The body of the beer is on the medium side with a nice smoothness and a carbonation level that is rather average. Both are rather nice for the darker flavors of the brew and make for a fairly nice fuller feel overall.
Overall – A rather nice stout with a good chocolate and roasted malt flavor which still maintains a rather easy drinking character.
Dark brown and beige-y head. I think it’s cloudy. Chocolate complexion, I think it is bitter from that or maybe it’s from the hops? They are in here. Good roast complexion. Other notes: malt, ginger, light citrus, oak. A decent stout.
Bottle shared by supperhopped. Pours a dark brown with beige head. Aroma and taste of chocolate and roasted malts.
Pours a dark brown. Aroma is chocolate and a little coffee. Taste is a mild version of the aroma.
Bottle: pours very dark black brown with a tan head. Aromas are like roasted chocolate and graham crackers... Sorta like a smore. Some nuttiness as well. Taste is very nice... Smooth roasted chocolate and a nice easy drinking mouthfeel. Very nicely done.