Chocolate

Lost Abbey’s Track #10: Meatloaf, Ships

The Lost Abbey’s Track #10, the highest rated offering from from the brewery’s Ultimate Box Set, has shipped again. The set was a series of one-off releases, featuring special blends and treatments from Lost Abbey’s lineup. This isn’t the Continue Reading →

Foolproof Brewing Shuckolate, Brewed with Oysters

Foolproof Brewing Shuckolate releases this February. The chocolate stout features oysters used in the brewing process. Foolproof collaborated with two well known foodies on the release.

Shuckolate is Foolproof’s first collaborative beer. We’ve partnered with two renowned Rhode Island food artisans, Continue Reading →

Posted in Flying Dog Brewing, New Releases

Flying Dog Mexican Hot Chocolate Stout Hits Shelves

Flying Dog Mexican Hot Chocolate Stout is the first Brewhouse Rarities release of 2015. The beer is inspired by the spicy hot chocolate beverage.

The brewery created Mexican Hot Chocolate Stout with lactose, cinnamon, serano chiles and cocoa powder.

…a combination of sweet spice and roasted chocolate aromas are lollowed by flavors of dark chocolate, vanilla, cinnamon and a lingering chili finish.

Flying Dog Mexican Hot Chocolate Stout  has already hit the brewery’s tap room. 12oz bottles hit shelves in Flying Dog’s limited distribution territory as early as this week.

Style: Milk Stout (w/ Lactose, Vanilla, Cinnamon, Chocolate, Chilies.)
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft. Limited Release.
Distribution: Maryland, Washington D.C., Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York City

5.7% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in 4 Hands Brewing, New Releases

4 Hands Chocolate Milk Stout cans join bottles in lineup

4 Hands Chocolate Milk Stout is now apart of the lineup in 12 ounce cans. Think of your chocolate milk when you were growing up. But boozy. Adulthood has its privileges.

Our Chocolate Milk Stout pours black as the night sky with aromas of dark chocolate, chocolate malt, and more chocolate. With a firm tan head and a rich velvety mouthfeel our Chocolate Milk Stout is a perfect complement to the change of seasons.

4 Hands Chocolate Milk Stout is available in 22oz bottles, 12oz cans, and draft.

Style: Milk Stout (w/ Chocolate)
Availability: 12oz Cans, 22oz bottles, Draft. Seasonal release.

5.5% ABV

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Lost Abbey

Lost Abbey’s Track #10: Meatloaf, Ships

The Lost Abbey’s Track #10, the highest rated offering from from the brewery’s Ultimate Box Set, has shipped again. The set was a series of one-off releases, featuring special blends and treatments from Lost Abbey’s lineup. This isn’t the first beer from the series that saw a wider release, as last year Track #8 showed up on shelves.

The original details about this release below…

The Lost Abbey released Track #10 on October 20, 2012. This edition is fresh Serpent’s Stout aged in bourbon barrels.  Right before packaging, the brewery added 17 lbs of Ryan Brothers coffee and 4 lbs of TCHO cacao nibs. Each of the Ultimate Box Set beers echoes a hard rock track. For #10, it’s Meatloaf’s Bat Out Of Hell.

Late in November of 2011, Mike Rodriguez our head brewer asked about creating a Coffee and Cacoa Nib version of Serpent’s Stout for the San Diego Strong Ale Festival. The beer was a hit with our fans. When we wrote up the syllabus for the Ultimate Box Set, we knew a version of this beer would be included.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Coffee, Cacao Nibs, Barrel Aged)
Availability:  12.7 oz bottles. Limited
First Release: 10/20/12
Release #2: January, 2015.
Distribution: Entire Lost Abbey Network

13.5% ABV

Image via Lost Abbey. Read more: Lost Abbey Ultimate Box Set Lost Abbey Track #10

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Headlines, Ommegang

Ommegang Combines Coffee & Chocolate in “Jommegang”

Shortly after Ommegang launches their new Game of Thrones offering Three-Eyed Raven, Ommegang will release a new coffee offering, Joemmegang.

Ommegang Joemmegang blends flavors of coffee, chocolate and beer together in a bold new offering.

Cold-aged with a custom mixture of cocoa nibs, 1/3 espresso blend, 1/3 sumatra and 1/3 Papua New Guinea beans. Mahogany hue with red hightlights and creamy tan head. Aroma dominated by cold-brewed coffee, milk chocolate and caramel – rounded out with aromatic hints of fruit and figs. Taste is of sweet malts and smooth, rich coffee and chocolate. Pleasantly fruity notes from both the yeast and coffee beans.

Ommegang Joemmegang is on the brewery’s release calendar for May, 2015. To be available in 750ml bottles.

Style: American Strong Ale (w/ Coffee, Cocoa Nibs)
Availability: 750ml bottles, Corked & Caged
Release: May, 2015 (Estimated)

7.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Foolproof Brewing Company

Foolproof Brewing Shuckolate, Brewed with Oysters

Foolproof Brewing Shuckolate releases this February. The chocolate stout features oysters used in the brewing process. Foolproof collaborated with two well known foodies on the release.

Shuckolate is Foolproof’s first collaborative beer. We’ve partnered with two renowned Rhode Island food artisans, Walrus & Carpenter Oysters and Garrison Chocolates. The limited release stout has a creamy mouthfeel, slight brininess, as wells a chocolate flavors and aromatics. Chocolate is a celebration of locally sourced food, small business partnerships, and true love. Best enjoyed with someone special.

Foolproof Shuckolate will be available in 22oz bottles in February, 2015.

Style: Stout (w/ Cocoa Nibs, Oysters)
Availability: 22oz Bottles
Arrival: 2/15

6% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Releases, Westbrook Brewing Co

Westbrook 4th Anniversary: Chocolate Coconut Almond Imperial Stout Released

Westbrook Brewing Company is rolling up on their 4th Anniversary, and that means a new birthday offering.

Westbrook 4th Anniversary is an imperial stout, brewed with chocolate, coconut, and almonds. The coconutty offering was brewed in late, 2014.

To catch you up, Westbrook 1st Anniversary was Mexican Cake, first released in 2012. The demands requests for it were so high, it has become an annual release with barrel aged variants. The 2nd Anniversary was Cap’n Skoon’s Ballistic Stout.

Westbrook 3rd Anniversary was Chocolate Orange Stout. 4th Anniversary Chocolate Coconut Almond Imperial Stout will be available in 22oz bottles and draft. The brewery suggests drinking 4th Anniversary as fresh as possible (even if it IS 10% ABV.)

Westbrook 4th Anniversary: Chocolate Coconut Almond Imperial Stout is available in 22oz bottles and draft.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Chocolate, Almonds, Coconut)
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft. Limited release.
Released: January, 2015

10% ABV

This article was updated to reflect the release of this beer.  

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Blue Pants Brewery, Coming Soon

Blue Pants Double Stuff Pinstripe Stout Releases Soon

Blue Pants Brewery (Madison, AL) will soon release Double Stuff Pinstripe, a variant of their cold weather seasonal.

While Pinstripe is a coffee stout with hints of chocolate, Double Stuff Pinstripe features extra cocoa nibs to bump up the chocolate, and vanilla and lactose to boost the dessert-like flavor.

Take Pinstripe, our rich, chocolatey export stout and add cocoa nibs to bump up the chocolate to a whole new level. Then, add lactose and vanilla to provide a frosting like middle and you have Double Stuff Pinstripe. Are most decadent, popular variant from Pinstripe Fest 2014.

Blue Pants Double Stuff Pinstripe Stout will be available in 22oz bottles.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Coffee, Cocoa Nibs, Lactose, Vanilla Beans)
Availability: 22oz bottles
Arrival: TBA

8% ABV

by Reid Ramsay