Chocolate

A Cigar City Chocolate Gourd Emerges

There is a little known history with Cigar City’s Good Gourd, the brewery’s pumpkin beer. There was the first year’s release, in 2011. This year, the recipe was tweaked a little bit and released again.

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Posted in Clown Shoes Brewing, Coming Soon

Clown Shoes Celebrates 3 Years with Luchador El Fuego

Clown Shoes Luchador El Fuego

Clown Shoes (Ipswich, MA) celebrates 3 years with Luchador El Fuego. The beer is a 100% barrel aged edition of they brewery’s Chocolate Sombrero with a couple of extra editions. Wrestle with this: the beer is chocolate imperial stout, brewed with Ancho chili powder, vanilla extract, and cinnamon. For this edition, they added extra ancho chilies and chipotle peppers. Then aged it Wild Turkey and Heaven Hill barrels.

Our third anniversary beer up sizes Chocolate Sombrero, using extra ancho chili and adding chipotle peppers. We aged the brew 100% in Wild Turkey and Heaven Hill barrels. May it leap onto your palate majestically, like a luchador who flies into the ring from atop the highest rope.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Vanilla, Chipotle & Ancho Chilis, Cocoa, Barrel Aged)
Availability: 22oz bombers
Arrival: Mid-Late December, 2012

11% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Bayou Teche Biere, New Beers

Bayou Teche Joie a Tous 2012

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cool Stuff, Founders Brewing

This Pile Of Chocolate Goes into Founder’s Breakfast Stout [PIC]

Founder’s Brewing’s Breakfast Stout is brewed with flaked oats,

Sumatra & Kona coffee, and most importantly chocolate. The brewers have to take a mallet to chocolate bars to  break it up for the brewing process.  Above is the picture of nearly 150 lbs of chocolate used in the seasonal brew.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ coffee, chocolate)
Availability: 12 oz bottles, Draft. Sept – Feb, Seasonally

8.3% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Cigar City Brewing, New Releases

A Cigar City Chocolate Gourd Emerges

There is a little known history with Cigar City’s Good Gourd, the brewery’s pumpkin beer. There was the first year’s release, in 2011. This year, the recipe was tweaked a little bit and released again.

But there are a couple of side projects with this brew. Last year, a tiny batch of Good Gourd Almighty was made. (Or… experimented with.) That was Good Gourd in rum. It really gives Avery’s Rumpkin a run for it’s money. Not released publicly.

That brings us to today. Cigar City introduces a Chocolate Good Gourd. That would be the imperial pumpkin ale with cacao nibs. A one and done keg. After it blows, spend your Halloween in Tampa today drinking Hunahpu. Tapping right after. You lucky Floridian bastards. (And beautiful females of course.)

Style: Pumpkin Beer (w/ Cacao Nibs)

8.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, New Belgium, New Releases

New Belgium Launches Imperial Coffee Chocolate Stout in November

New Belgium Imperial Coffee Chocolate Stout

New Belgium is rolling out the final Lips Of Faith Series beers for 2012. First up, Imperial Coffee Chocolate Stout. This offering features a marriage of coffee and chocolate, in a 10% ABV brew. This imperial stout features Fort Collins, Colorado’s Cafe Richesse Espresso, plus fair trade cocoa nibs.

“Our Imperial Stout answers the call for beer drinkers seeking the rich, full character of a coffee stout,” added Hull. “The coffee and chocolate combine to offer a bold flavor with a warming brace of alcohol for those cold winter months.”

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Coffee, Chocolate)
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft
Arrival: November, 2012

10% ABV

Read more: New Belgium, Lips Of Faith

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Duck Rabbit Brewery, Foothills Brewing, Olde Hickory Brewing

Duck Rabbit/Olde Hickory/Foothills Olde Rabbit’s Foot Returns 12/8

The 4th release of the North Carolina  collaborative brew Olde Rabbit’s Foot returns  Saturday, December 8. Duck Rabbit, Olde Hickory, and Foothills each contributed wort from their imperial stouts,  then aged it in Pappy Van Winkle barrels. Honey and cocoa nibs are then added for a flavor enhancement.

 Bottles will be $20 dollars each, on sale at Foothills at 10 am. 10/8/12

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Honey, Cocoa Nibs, Barrel Aged)
Availability: 22oz bottles

10.1% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Rogue Brewing

A New Rogue Voodoo Doughnut Flavor: Chocolate, Peanut Butter & Banana Ale

Rogue Voodoo Donut Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana

Rogue Ales (Newport, OR) made a real splash in the beer world when then unveiled Voodoo Donut Ale. In honor of a Portland Oregon based Voodoo Donuts breaking the world record for largest box of donuts (666 lbs), the brewery made the first Voodoo Doughnut ale- Maple Bacon Porter. Brewed with real bacon, maple syrup, smoked malt, and vanilla beans. I believe there were even media kits running around that had a pink condom in it.

Looks like another edition is on the horizon – Voodoo Donut Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana. By the looks of it, this beer is modeled after the Memphis Mafia donut. (Elvis inspired? See below.) As it’s predecessor, looks like big painted pink bottles again for this edition.

Style:                   (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