Chocolate

Blue Moon: Chocolate Mint Ale

A new Blue Moon variant: Chocolate Mint Ale.A wheat beer brewed with peppermint and chocolate. The brewer has been experimenting with a plethora of additions over the past year or two. Typically these releases only make Continue Reading →

Coffee In A Can: Sixpoint 3Beans

Sixpoint Craft Ales (Brooklyn, NY) will soon be bringing you coffee & chocolate in a can with 3Beans. Drinking in the AM just got less weird.

Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans.. and put them in one Continue Reading →

Posted in Rogue Brewing

Dear Elvis, Rogue VooDoo Doughnut Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Ale

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Rogue’s second VooDoo Doughnut beer should be popping up at your favorite beer spots shortly if not already. VooDoo Doughnut Chocolate, Peanut butter, and Banana Ale is the latest tribute to Portland’s Voo Doo Doughnut Shop, which features specialty doughnuts such as a maple bacon bar (which inspired Rogue’s first beer, Maple Bacon Porter), doughnuts with Captain Crunch on top, and doughnuts dipped in everything from bubblegum dust to tang. After the original Maple Bacon Porter receiving mixed reviews, let’s hope that this crazy concoction pleases the palate. Below is the donut the beer is inspired by…

Style: Brown Ale  (w/ Banana Extract, Peanut Extract, Chocolate)
Hops: Rogue Farms Revolution, Independent
Malts: 2-Row, c-150, c-175, Carafoam Special II, ChocolateAA

Availability: 25.4 oz bottles
Arrival: TBA

5.3% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, New Belgium

Interesting Ingredient Used In New Belgium Lindsay’s Smorter

Joining the New Belgium (Fort Collins, CO) Lips of Faith Draft Series – Lindsay’s Smorter. Brewed with a plethora of funky ingredients, including mallow flowers (pictured below).

Style: Porter (w/ Molasses, Vanilla, Honey, Cocoa, Mallow Flowers)
Availability: Draft only, as of 1/8/13

8.25% ABV 

Below – Mallow flowers

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Releases, Odell Brewing

Odell’s New Chocolate Milk Stout Released

Odell Brewing has officially launched Lugene Chocolate Milk Stout.  Yesterday the brewery threw a party to celebrate it’s release. Named after a local dairy farmer, Lugene is an imperial stout with milk sugar and copious amounts of chocolate.

If you’ve ever been to our brewery, you’ve likely seen the old, beat-up truck that hauls away our spent grain. (That truck belongs to Lugene, who’s been feeding his dairy cows the hearty malt for over a decade. Named in his honor, Lugene Chocolate Milk Stout is brewed with milk sugar and milk chocolate. (The rich and iht creamy brew reminds us of a cold glass of chocolate milk and our hometown “Aggie” roots. 

Style: Milk Stout (w/ Chocolate, Lactose)
Availability: 12oz bottles, Draft.
Arrival: January, 2013

8.5% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Maui Brewing Company

Maui Brewing Intros Aloha B’ak’tun To Finish Off 2012

Maui Brewing Co. introduces that last canned seasonal of 2012 – Aloha B’ak’tun.  B’ak’tun refers to the end of the 3000 year Mayan Calendar.  The beer? A Belgian style stout with chocolate, chipotle chilies, and cinnamon.

Sure.. the scientists have published essays, the philosophers poems, the naysayers flyers.. but here at the center of the Maui Brewing micro-verse, we are publishing the ultimate in doomsday aloha – this year’s last canned seasonal, Aloha B’ak’tun! The word aloha conveys both greeting and goodbye in the Hawaiian language and B’ak’tun refers to the 3000+year cycle of the Mayan Calendar which is ending. This apocalyptic Belgian-style stout is brewed with Hawaiian chocolate, locally-grown chipotle chilies and cinnamon spice. Easy-drinking and full of flavor, this beer will help you feel the aloha as you say aloha to old and aloha to new! 

Style: Stout (w/ Chocolate, Chilies, Cinnamon)
Availability: 12 oz cans
Arrival: End of 2012

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Duclaw Brewing

DuClaw Creating Cocoa Bourbon Barrel Retribution

DuClaw keeps it coming with yet another awesome bourbon-barrel beer. This tasty treat is a twist on their already awesome Retribution stout. Cocoa Retribution is infused with cocoa nibs and aged in bourbon barrels kicking up the ABV a bit compared to the original. They’re right, it is time to savor some sweet justice!

“A full-bodied single-barrel bourbon-aged imperial stout with smooth roasted malt flavor and rich aromas of espresso and dark chocolate. Aged for 6 months inside charred Kentucky white oak bourbon barrels with cocoa nibs to add the natural vanilla and caramelized sugar flavors of the wood, and bittersweet chocolate, and the slick velvety mouthfeel of the cocoa to the beer.”

Patience will be more than a virtue as we await the arrival of this sexy beer.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Chocolate, Barrel Aged)
Availability: 22oz bottles
Arrival: TBD

11.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Blue Moon Brewing, Coming Soon

Blue Moon: Chocolate Mint Ale

A new Blue Moon variant: Chocolate Mint Ale.A wheat beer brewed with peppermint and chocolate. The brewer has been experimenting with a plethora of additions over the past year or two. Typically these releases only make it to festivals.

Style: Wheat Beer (w/ Peppermint, Chocolate)
Availability: Draft only, as of 12/17/12

5.8% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Sixpoint Craft Ales

Coffee In A Can: Sixpoint 3Beans

Sixpoint Craft Ales (Brooklyn, NY) will soon be bringing you coffee & chocolate in a can with 3Beans. Drinking in the AM just got less weird.

Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans.. and put them in one vessel. The beans of bygone brewers, united with cacao and coffee, to create a trinity of roasted, rich, and savory flavors. 

Style:   (w/ Chocolate, Coffee)
Availability: 12oz cans, Draft
Arrival: TBA

10% ABV

by Reid Ramsay