Harpoon Chocolate Stout

I've been known to imbibe a dessert beer on occasion around here, something to enjoy before or after a meal.  This led me to the Chocolate Stout from Massachusetts' Harpoon Brewery, about as apt a name for a beer as you will ever come across.  Like a good stout, the carbonation is light, but the head frothy, and the beer is dark and malty.  The first thing i noticed upon the pour was the almost overwhelming aroma of chocolate, like a big candy bar.  And on first taste, the chocolate flavor is just as overwhelming as the smell.  It's a bitter chocolate flavor like you would get from a dark chocolate, heavy on the cocoa, light on the sugar.  The immense chocolaty flavor soon dissipates a little to bring in the more subtle malts.  Once you get past the initial shock of the first taste, the beer is quite enjoyably, a good bitter stout that still tastes like dessert.

Note:  This is not for everybody.

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