Chocolate Love Stout
Yards Brewing Co.

Chocolate Love StoutChocolate Love Stout
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From:
Yards Brewing Co.
 
Pennsylvania, United States
Style:
English Stout
ABV:
6.9%
Score:
86
Avg:
3.84 | pDev: 12.5%
Reviews:
61
Ratings:
279
Status:
Active
Rated:
Sep 16, 2020
Added:
Feb 15, 2012
Wants:
  24
Gots:
  72
Passionately brewed with over 200 pounds of pure, 100% cacao Belgian dark chocolate, this irresistibly smooth stout explodes with the taste and aroma of rich, dark chocolate goodness. Chocolate Love Stout will please you with its roasty maltiness and hints of vanilla and caramel
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Rated: 3.5 by 1971bernat from Virginia

Sep 16, 2020
 
Rated: 4.05 by Ernald_Elbertson from Delaware

May 13, 2020
 
Rated: 4 by RiceOwls27 from Texas

Apr 01, 2020
 
Rated: 3.67 by Curt3 from Ohio

Feb 26, 2020
 
Rated: 3.27 by CruzinCooler from New Jersey

Feb 17, 2020
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Reviewed by HardCider from Pennsylvania

3.61/5  rDev -6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours a very dark coffee color with a thick creamy head. There is an artificial chocolate aroma. I taste more coffee than chocolate, but the taste of alcohol overwhelms all.
Jan 31, 2020
 
Rated: 3.5 by JohneHoodlum from Pennsylvania

Jan 10, 2020
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Reviewed by Bluerabbitbell from Pennsylvania

4.19/5  rDev +9.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Excellent flavor up front. Sweet and chocolate, but not too sweet. Nice and dark. Burger & Tap work mom on our return trip from Harrisburg for Boettinger Christmas party. Great reunion at the SC Alliance as well.
Dec 29, 2019
 
Rated: 4.1 by odenbr12 from New Jersey

Dec 21, 2019
 
Rated: 3.6 by mjw2808 from Maryland

Apr 28, 2019
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Reviewed by NeroFiddled from Pennsylvania

4.3/5  rDev +12%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Yards Brewing Co. "Chocolate Love Stout"
12 fl. oz. brown glass bottle, "BOTTLED ON 11/28/18" and sampled on 02/22/19
$2.49 @ Total Wine & More, Cherry Hill, NJ

Look: Black body beneath a short lived head of tan. Limited lacing, perhaps due to the oils of the cocoa powder.

Smell: Milk chocolate over both dark and grainy malts.

Taste: The flavor follows the aroma with the milk chocolate as the main note over what seems a little like Ovaltine. A median bitterness balances it and it finishes mainly dry with some chocolate lingering.

Feel: Medium bodied with a lightly bristling carbonation.

Overall: There's enough chocolate here that it could easily work as a dessert beer, either on its own or used as an ingredient in something more, but it can also stand on its own.
Apr 14, 2019
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Reviewed by Act25 from New Jersey

3.9/5  rDev +1.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
If you let this warm in becomes a 4 in aroma and taste.
a) It's flattish compared to others,and a deeper brown than black, low carbination, not much last or lace.
s) But if you warm to cask it's delightful aroma of coffee, cocoa, fruit, malt. *(but no char)
t) Ditto all the above on smooth taste
f) Smooth, creamy feel but light.
o) Worthy of a blind taste with other blacks.
Apr 01, 2019
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Reviewed by Wattie83 from Pennsylvania

4.04/5  rDev +5.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Look is black with a bit of red hue as the light hits it. Nice brown head when poured, but disappeared into a bit of lacing around edge. Smell is cocoa and a bit of coffee. Also getting a bit of fruit too. Taste is chocolate and malt. The chocolate picks up at the end and leaves a cocoa/coffee aftertaste. Sweet in the front, nice bittering in the back. Feel is light...almost too light. Would expect a bit more body. Overall, I tend to like sweeter stouts, and this delivers, but it also balances out nicely with the bitterness in the end. I'm going to go enjoy another!
Feb 12, 2019
 
Rated: 3.01 by rolltide from Pennsylvania

Jan 20, 2019
 
Rated: 3.56 by Wpivpsu from Pennsylvania

Jan 20, 2019
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Reviewed by BishopJ from Pennsylvania

3.97/5  rDev +3.4%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
This beer delivers. It is all it promises to be. The aroma and look are all Stout. Yet, the taste of dark chocolate is present as well. The balance is right for Stout fans as well as chocolate lovers. A Valentine’s Day gift, anyone?
Jan 10, 2019
 
Rated: 3.5 by bigschoolrecords from Pennsylvania

Jan 06, 2019
 
Rated: 3.79 by MGibbons from Maryland

Dec 27, 2018
 
Rated: 3.87 by GoochVa from Virginia

Aug 16, 2018
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Rated by DanO1066 from Maryland

3.69/5  rDev -3.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Draught into a weizen glass (NO idea why!) at the "Elephant" in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore.
May 23, 2018
Chocolate Love Stout from Yards Brewing Co.
Beer rating: 86 out of 100 with 279 ratings