Samuel Adams Chocolate Bock
pours a really luxurious chocolate brown with a relatively thin, too fizzy head. fair retention, lacing. smells pretty darned good, a nice malty top with yeast and sweetness. not much chocolate registers at all in the nose, just adds a kind of darker dimension to the expected malty sweetness. taste is a little less exciting. a lot less roasted malt flavors than I would like to expect. very mild yeast and bread flavor, chocolate comes on strong, but, like the nose, its not overpowering. feels way too thin, its gone before you can finish tasting it. however it could be a great easy drinking wintertime beer, if I didnt pay 16 dollars for the bottle. the price definitely lowers the drinkability.