Bateman's Mocha isn't weak: 6% ABV, in fact, and very proud of itself. The chocolate is Belgian, we're told; the coffee arabica. It's pale for all that, an off-white head rather than beige, over a body that shines red at the edges.It smells, unsubtly, of cheap chocolate and cheap coffee, as though the flavourings are an afterthought instead of the main event. The texture is is light, with high carbonation dominating any sugary weight. But sugar there is, in a big way: a sweet chocolate milkshake alcopop with an oily coffeebean finish. I'm looking for dark malt or roasted grain but they're not there. Overall, it's a bit of a one-dimensional experience.
Bateman's rarely put a foot wrong in in my book, but this is one of those.
Did you enjoy any of those beers I got you? :P
ReplyDeleteHaha! I forgot this was from your stash. Thanks!
DeleteJust checked my notes on the Danish lager and they're not positive, so the whole thing hangs on the Whitbread Gold Label, which I haven't opened yet. Fingers crossed, eh?
Still haven't opened my two cans of Gold Label either, my hopes are definitely not high.
DeleteIt couldn't have lasted this long while being shite. Stands to reason.
DeleteNot my cup of chocolate at all this beer. Others might like it (it won the Sainsbury's Great british Beer hunt the other year I think) but I really didn't enjoy it at all.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I can see why people would like it. I can't see how people who've had it, and also had Young's Double Chocolate, would prefer it.
DeleteI'd recently been sent a sample-pack of the newly branded Bateman's beers, and there's four which follow this 'chocolate biscuit' theme....and I have to say I haven't liked any of them. Flavoured beers is a difficult market to get into and do well, but people still keep trying. A shame. I sort of feel like saying 'Batemans should be better than this....'
ReplyDeleteThere's certainly not much sign of the brewery who made XXXB in this bottle.
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