How's that for a title? You may have guessed that today's adventure features The Chocolate Manifesto Triple Chocolate Milk Stout brought to you by our friends at Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery in Barrie, Ontario.
I am excited to try this beer. It's a stout, it's full of chocolate, and it's a whopping 10%. What's not to like?
Hangovers. I don't like those. After a night of these bad boys, I can't see walking again for at least two days.
Anyway, as you can see by the picture, this beer is black as night, and if you could smell it, my friends, you'd swear you were sniffing a off-brand chocolate bar. There's no hiding that smell. and it makes me want to taste it even more.
Let's get to it, shall we?
Hot damn! That's some tasty beer right there. Now, for a beer so loaded with chocolate promises, there's surprisingly little actual chocolate flavour. Don't go taking that as a condemnation of this fine beer, because it's not one. It tastes light, a little sweet, and clean with a lightly toasted malt flavour that vanishes almost immediately. There's a pause in the middle, and the silky chocolate aftertaste slides across the palate subtle, but unmistakable to finish.
I like this beer. I like it a lot. There's so much danger in this glass that I'm glad I'm too old to get carried away. There's no way a stout rocking 10% alcohol should go down this easy. It's so smooth and there's no sign of trying too hard to make the beer as strong as can be.
Anyone remember the "ice" beer phase of the mid to late 90's? Labatt Ice, Molson Ice, and a whole slew of other ice beers made their rounds one fine summer and most of them tasted like ass. They were all around the 7% mark though, and a bunch of underage drinkers like me and my crew of nogoodnicks found ourselves some extra bang for our buck, so we drank them and pretended we liked them.
The Chocolate Manifesto isn't like that at all. It's just a good beer that happens to be extra strong. I'm going to count myself as lucky this beer wasn't around back then or I probably would have ruined it for myself through reckless over consumption.
I would say this beer should be served in a stout glass to concentrate the aroma of chocolate as you drink it. That's the kind of thing specialized glassware can do for a guy.
My rating: 10/10. It's easy to give this one such a good rating because it's that good.
My lovely wife is my second sipper, always ready to give me a non-beer drinker's take on the beers I review.. She liked the chocolatey aroma, but not much else.
My wife's rating: 5/10.
There you have it, friends. The Chocolate Manifesto Triple Chocolate Milk Stout brewed by the animals over at Flying Monkeys Craft Brewing in Barrie, Ontario is an outstanding beer. I recommend it to anyone bored with the run of the mill offerings in your standard watering hole. Check out flyingmonkeys.ca to see all the other mind bending goodness they have to offer.
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