Let's skip the ice cream and drink our dessert!!
Anyone who knows me knows I live my ice cream almost as much as i love beer. But push come to shove beer can warm a cold night if it has a high enough gravity and beer causes inebreation. If you really try to get drunk off ice cream you just end up bloated and sickly (trust me i've tried). and as much as i like them both there are very few beer and ice cream combos that go together. Ice cream and whiskey that works or beer and pie mmmmmmmmm.
Now that I'm done craving pie I can talk about the beer I'll be reviewing today. If you've been following my beer ramblings for a while you've undoubtedly heard me talk about the sam adams conundrum. Jim Koch the man behind Sam Adam's is a total beer nut, he really knows beer, yet sam adams regular beer (the one tv tells us is ok to drink with your boss at business lunch.) is exceedingly boring. However it turns out if you pay attention to beers other than the regular the company makes some really interesting beers. Today we talk about Chocolate Bock.
The above is stolen from wikipedia and therefore infallible. Bock is a fairly loose genre of beer, in truth this chocolate beer isn't a bock at all it is a specialty beer by international judging standards. Whatever catergory it is, it is delicious. This beer has a wonderful velvety texture that lingers on the pallette. I expected this to be either too sugary, or mostly a stout with some serious chocolate notes. I was suprised by the warmth of this beer it has a nice malt tone without being sweet, like a strong scotch ale. But even more so, the cocoa flavor is full and rich, like a dark belgian chocolate. It has a very chocolatey scent but the flavor does miatain an amount of hops, very backgound, but any more would be just one too many things in the glass.
This beer is so luxurious, the texture really stands out, and the deep chocolate flavor is so rich it seems almost sinful. This beer is really sexy, the warmth the texture, the completley black color and the CHOCOLATE, it just makes you feel like calling someone over and lighting some candles. The want to pair this beer with something drew a blank for me. It is robust enough to stand up to a rich meal, but the flavor is so classic dessert. Fruit would be fine with the chocolate, but wouldn't jive with the equally present full bodied lager. after thinking lond and hard and drinking long and hard I came to the conclusion that the right pairing for this is a cigar. Now if you don't smoke this beer is fine on it's own, but that seems to me the only god pairing.
To find the details of how this beer is made you can go to sam adams top drawer website linked below the bock is listed as an extreme beer. The thing to know if you don't make it to the site is the beer is let rest on wild cocoa nibs from northern olivian rainforest. I know that sounds like I made it up, but it's true the nibs are provided by Felchin a swiss chocaliteir. this use of actual chocalate late in the process is how such a potent chocolate flavor exists without diminishing the classic malty beer. It is a limited edition beer availible in 750 ml bottles. but they've been making it off and on since 2003 in the spring so if you missed 2009 it is hopfully coming back in 2010. I give this a 5.5 out of 6 scoops. an excellent beer for a spring night after a meal or instead of one. And like most chocolate it seems to be an aphrodisiac, so enjoy it with someone pretty you might find yourself taking of more than the beer top.
happy hunting kids
dan
http://www.samueladams.com/world_of_beer.aspx
Anyone who knows me knows I live my ice cream almost as much as i love beer. But push come to shove beer can warm a cold night if it has a high enough gravity and beer causes inebreation. If you really try to get drunk off ice cream you just end up bloated and sickly (trust me i've tried). and as much as i like them both there are very few beer and ice cream combos that go together. Ice cream and whiskey that works or beer and pie mmmmmmmmm.
Now that I'm done craving pie I can talk about the beer I'll be reviewing today. If you've been following my beer ramblings for a while you've undoubtedly heard me talk about the sam adams conundrum. Jim Koch the man behind Sam Adam's is a total beer nut, he really knows beer, yet sam adams regular beer (the one tv tells us is ok to drink with your boss at business lunch.) is exceedingly boring. However it turns out if you pay attention to beers other than the regular the company makes some really interesting beers. Today we talk about Chocolate Bock.
Bock is a strong lager which has its origins in the Hanseatic town of Einbeck, Germany. The name is a corruption of the medieval German brewing town of Einbeck, but
also means male deer or goat in German; the word is a cognate of the English
"buck". The original Bocks were dark
beers, brewed from high-colored malts. Modern Bocks can be dark,
amber or pale in color. Bock was traditionally brewed for special occasions,
often religious festivals such as Christmas, Easter or Lent.
The above is stolen from wikipedia and therefore infallible. Bock is a fairly loose genre of beer, in truth this chocolate beer isn't a bock at all it is a specialty beer by international judging standards. Whatever catergory it is, it is delicious. This beer has a wonderful velvety texture that lingers on the pallette. I expected this to be either too sugary, or mostly a stout with some serious chocolate notes. I was suprised by the warmth of this beer it has a nice malt tone without being sweet, like a strong scotch ale. But even more so, the cocoa flavor is full and rich, like a dark belgian chocolate. It has a very chocolatey scent but the flavor does miatain an amount of hops, very backgound, but any more would be just one too many things in the glass.
This beer is so luxurious, the texture really stands out, and the deep chocolate flavor is so rich it seems almost sinful. This beer is really sexy, the warmth the texture, the completley black color and the CHOCOLATE, it just makes you feel like calling someone over and lighting some candles. The want to pair this beer with something drew a blank for me. It is robust enough to stand up to a rich meal, but the flavor is so classic dessert. Fruit would be fine with the chocolate, but wouldn't jive with the equally present full bodied lager. after thinking lond and hard and drinking long and hard I came to the conclusion that the right pairing for this is a cigar. Now if you don't smoke this beer is fine on it's own, but that seems to me the only god pairing.
To find the details of how this beer is made you can go to sam adams top drawer website linked below the bock is listed as an extreme beer. The thing to know if you don't make it to the site is the beer is let rest on wild cocoa nibs from northern olivian rainforest. I know that sounds like I made it up, but it's true the nibs are provided by Felchin a swiss chocaliteir. this use of actual chocalate late in the process is how such a potent chocolate flavor exists without diminishing the classic malty beer. It is a limited edition beer availible in 750 ml bottles. but they've been making it off and on since 2003 in the spring so if you missed 2009 it is hopfully coming back in 2010. I give this a 5.5 out of 6 scoops. an excellent beer for a spring night after a meal or instead of one. And like most chocolate it seems to be an aphrodisiac, so enjoy it with someone pretty you might find yourself taking of more than the beer top.
happy hunting kids
dan
http://www.samueladams.com/world_of_beer.aspx
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