Brew Review – Chocolate Turtle Stout by Big Bear Brewing @BigBearBrewing

I think it was my father who, growing up, loved Turtles. This candy concoction of pecans, caramel, and chocolate was always a rather nice combination, even though I’m not particularly partial to pecans myself.

It also contains flavors that are perfectly in demand during for brewers looking for a big dessert beer. Jeff Evans at Big Bear Brewing recently put up a batch of one like this as their winter seasonal.

Chocolate Turtle (Stout, 9% ABV) is the perfect beer for those in the state (and I know you’re out there) that prefer their beers to balloon very sweet and heavily deserty.

Jeff has shown himself to be a master of dark styles. Pouring a beautifully dark brown, the aroma of milk chocolate and caramel actively pounces out of the glass. It’s amazing how cocoa-forward the aroma is, being almost like a chocolate syrup.

The flavor is very sweet, and can almost pass for a dessert course in itself. There are giant notes of chocolate with a roasty, overbaked biscuit malt quality that has light notes of coffee and plum, along with an interesting caramel note that almost feels like brown sugar, plus a deeper chicory and light nutty flavor as well.

It’s quite delicious, but it is definitely for the desert drinkers out there. There’s a lot of that Jeff does that is quite excellent, and this should easily go into the pantheon of excellent bold dessert stouts that come out of the Sunshine State.

Drink Florida Craft,

Dave
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