Saltaire Triple Chocoholic might be my favourite chocolate beer. It’s not sweet like some, but definitely smells of chocolate. It’s dark, creamy and extremely full bodied, almost like a Spanish hot chocolate fit for dipping your churros.
It’s like (but better than) the Meantime effort at its best.
And, for all its intense flavour and gooeyness, is a mere 4.8%.
Once again, evidence that Saltaire are masters of flavouring beer.
Boak
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Had the meantime effort recently and didnt like it much at all. The Triple choc is awesome though … tastes like a bourbon biscuit!
When I tried it I thought it was miles ahead of any other choc beer. It seemed layered – the mouthfeel was similar to a good chocolate ganache.
I recently tried Brooklyn’s Chocolate Stout which I thought worked rather well but it is more a bitter dark chocolate than a sweet one. Haven’t tried the Saltaire one yet but it is on my list as I used to enoy the Youngs version until it changed to a more coffee-lite flavour for some reason.
The Brooklyn Chocolate Stout is definitely more of an imperial stout than a really chocolate beer (which isn’t to say it’s bad).
One kind of weird, out there chocolate beer is El Mole Ocho from New Holland. It’s a mix of chocolate and chili peppers in a dark, porter-y beer.
If you’re on the look out for a damn good chocolate beer, I can highly recommend Marble Chocolate, fresh from the bar at the Marble Arch. Gorgeous.
It’s a chocolatey beer all right. You tried the Hazlenut Coffee Porter?
I used to really enjoy the standard Saltaire beers when we used get them imported here, its a shame we dont see them anymore.
Best chocolate beer for me has to be from Phillips another Canadian brewer: Their Longboat Chocolate Porter is to die for. It has all the creaminess off Cadbury’s Dairy Milk with the richness of a delicious porter. Even my wife who doesn’t drink beer loves it.