Serving Type: Draft/GrowlerABV: I can't find anything official online, but I'm pretty sure I remember seeing that it was 5.2 percent at the brewery.
Appearance: East End's Chocolate Covered Cherry Stout pours a very dark brown (very similar to chocolate, but who knew?) and has a ruby hue to it elsewhere throughout the body. The body also had a thick appearance to it. Stout lovers describe this look as "chewy" and this brew definitely had that. The head is an attractive beige and is very soft and frothy. There was enough retention for some lacing, but it all faded away fairly quick.
Smell: I was able to pick up some roasty and nutty aromas. These were two scents I wasn't expecting out of this. The ones I assumed I'd come across were the chocolate and the tartness of cherries. It really smelled like I had just cracked open a cordial cherry. So, my mouth did water at this point.
Taste: Once again I'll play on the cordial cherry thing. If there was such a thing as a cordial cherry in liquid form, this is it. It tasted nice and dark, It was also roasty from the darker malts. I can't forget about the sweetness of the chocolate and the tart cherries. Those two flavors made this beer. They meld well together as the beer warms. The sweetness was a tad too much for me much later in the drink, though.
Overall Rating:
I think was brewed by East End once back in 2011 and again this past winter. If there's any left at the brewery location, grab a growler of it if you can before it's gone. If not, I hope it's back next year! This brew was really well done. It was as close to a cordial cherry candy as anything in this world can be without actually taking on that form. As really sweet candy tends to do with me, the sweetness in this did overwhelm me towards the end. That wasn't by a big margin, though.
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