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Chocolate stout Dublin

  • 08-10-2016 3:54pm
    #1
    Buckfast W
    Registered Users Posts: 571 ✭✭✭


    Hey thinking of having a few bottles of stout later, looking for a few bottles of chocolate stout that I can get in most off licenses, any suggestions???


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  • #2
    BeerNut
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    Galway Bay's Buried At Sea is a good one. And Young's Double Chocolate is decent, and fairly readily available.

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  • #3
    maximum12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 666 ✭✭✭maximum12


    Trouble Dark Arts Porter has a lovely chocolate taste but don't think it has any actual chocolate.


  • #4
    Buckfast W
    Registered Users Posts: 571 ✭✭✭Buckfast W


    Cheers guys thanks for the suggestions :-)


  • #5
    Jimmy Bottlehead
    Registered Users Posts: 10,118 ✭✭✭✭Jimmy Bottlehead


    Russian Imperial Chocolate Stout is very good, as is Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout. Also worth a drink is The White Hag's Oatmeal Chocolate Milk Stout, it's delish.


  • #6
    Feenix
    Registered Users Posts: 232 ✭✭Feenix


    Nitro Milk Stout is serious gear.


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  • #7
    Pickpocket
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    Avoid Young's and anything else with actual chocolate in it. The chocolate flavour should come from the roasted malt.


  • #8
    BeerNut
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    Pickpocket wrote: »
    The chocolate flavour should come from the roasted malt.
    Not many beers put "chocolate" in the name if they don't have actual chocolate in them. Brooklyn Black Chocolate is the only one I can think of.

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  • #9
    Pickpocket
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    BeerNut wrote: »
    Not many beers put "chocolate" in the name if they don't have actual chocolate in them. Brooklyn Black Chocolate is the only one I can think of.

    Well you have me there because I've only ever drank three: Brooklyn, Young's and a third that I can't recall the name of. I purchased it in Belgian Attitude in Cagnes-sur-mer and the owner assured me that, like Young's, it contained actual chocolate. This sounds absolutely ridiculous, but the latter two were too chocolatey for me. I guess I just like that burnt chocolate taste you get from coffee and stouts and that's what I'd look for in a 'chocolate stout'.


  • #10
    slayerking
    Registered Users Posts: 1,276 ✭✭✭slayerking


    OP is asking for a chocolate stout, so I'd assume they want a stout with extra chocolate oomph.

    In order of chocolatiness for me (low to high)

    Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout
    James Brown's Chocolate Orange Stout
    Galway Bay Buried at Sea
    Founders Breakfast Stout (double chocolate, coffee oatmeal stout)
    Founders KBS
    Siren Caribbean Chocolate Cake
    Youngs Double Chocolate Stout
    Porterhouse Chocolate Truffle Stout (only available at Easter on draft)
    Saltaire Triple Chocoholic Stout


  • #11
    Passenger
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    Thornbridge Cocoa Wonderland is one of the most distinctive and well balanced chocolate porter's you'll taste imho.


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  • #12
    Pickpocket
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭Pickpocket


    slayerking wrote: »
    OP is asking for a chocolate stout, so I'd assume they want a stout with extra chocolate oomph.

    In order of chocolatiness for me (low to high)

    Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout
    James Brown's Chocolate Orange Stout
    Galway Bay Buried at Sea
    Founders Breakfast Stout (double chocolate, coffee oatmeal stout)
    Founders KBS
    Siren Caribbean Chocolate Cake
    Youngs Double Chocolate Stout
    Porterhouse Chocolate Truffle Stout (only available at Easter on draft)
    Saltaire Triple Chocoholic Stout

    Would many of them contain actual chocolate?


  • #13
    Buckfast W
    Registered Users Posts: 571 ✭✭✭Buckfast W


    Anything to be said about galway bay stout?? 4 for €10 in tescos, thinking about getting a few, any opinions!


  • #14
    slayerking
    Registered Users Posts: 1,276 ✭✭✭slayerking


    Pickpocket wrote: »
    Would many of them contain actual chocolate?

    Who knows! Youngs claim to use actual chocolate, but I'd wonder whether the fats would actually destroy the head of the beer. Most probably use cocoa nibs, Chocolate extract or brewing skills (grain selection).


  • #15
    BeerNut
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    Pickpocket wrote: »
    Would many of them contain actual chocolate?
    I think all those do, except Brooklyn's.
    Buckfast W wrote: »
    Anything to be said about galway bay stout?
    Yes, several times in this thread.

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  • #16
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Dunno if there is any around by now but Blacks World's End or Siren Caribbean Chocolate Cake are lovely.


  • #17
    L1011
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    slayerking wrote: »
    Who knows! Youngs claim to use actual chocolate, but I'd wonder whether the fats would actually destroy the head of the beer. Most probably use cocoa nibs, Chocolate extract or brewing skills (grain selection).

    I'd assume it's always cocoa and poetic licence.


  • #18
    irish_goat
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 5,760 Mod ✭✭✭✭irish_goat


    Galway Bay use Green and Blacks Cocoa in their Buried at Sea.

    Other methods would be chocolate essence, syrup, chocolate malt and chocolate liqueur as well.


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