darkness to come

It's the month of chocolate and let's start out strong!  An English chocolate stout seems to be the thing to open with, Young's (award winning) Double Chocolate Stout.  It promises rich chocolate flavor, as the original dark beer brewed with real chocolate.  A nice dark beer for a nice barely getting dark evening.

Not especially strong in aroma, but nice and smooth looking, fills the glass nicely and maintains a thin but bubbly head.  Quite identifiable chocolate, but surprisingly light in the mouth.  There is also a touch of bitter trying to balance out the sweet, but it doesn't quite do its job.  I get more of a milk chocolate sensation than dark chocolate, or stout for that matter.  It starts to build up a bitter taste at the back of the tongue, with a kind of stickiness that isn't exactly welcome.  The flavor is fairly clean, though, needing about half the bottle to go down before it starts to hang around with noticeable aftertaste.  It gives the beer a tad more weight and pumps it up from the milk chocolate lightness at the beginning.  Still, I have to say I expected more.  I guess I'll have to do some hunting around for a chocolatier option.

Supplier: La Cervecista
Price: €3.20