Black Lab Milk Stout
Modus Operandi Brewing Co. in Mona Vale, New South Wales, Australia 🇦🇺
Stout - Milk / Sweet Regular|
Score
6.50
|
|
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can. Pours darkest brown. Aroma is ash tray, tar, peat, some milk coffee lurking behind. Smells like my girlfriend after she just had a smoke. As it warms up, more coffee and chocolate appear. Still, ash. Body is medium, bitter and dry, with a lively carbonation. Dusty, with chocolate and coffee. Lots of lactose too. Sweetish palate. Unusual, but not bad.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap at the Local Taphouse Melbourne. Pours black. Toast, porridge, cream, coffee, little tobacco. Medium body. Fine.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Can. Black, beige head. Aroma of mild roast, grass, some mocha and earth. A fair bit of body for 5% - which is the point I guess - with a creamy rather than silky texture. Taste adds a rather dull caramel to the mix. Bitterness at the end is a mite lumpen too. Unusually joyless for MO. Not a disaster but ordinary.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 7.5
Pours very dark brown with a quickly fading head.Nose shows cocoa, coffee, roasted grains.Flavours include dry roasted malt and faint cocoa, little else.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
500ml can into pint glass. despite their exhortations to ’store and serve your beer cold’ this has only been in the fridge for 20 minutes. Wow, this beer is black. Very very black. Head is small and tan-coloured. Nose is ephemeral chocolate. Medium-bodied and zingy. Flavour is cocoa, finish is bitter chocolate with hints of coffee. It’s a nice stout but it’s not sweet like Mackeson or Samuel Smith. Bit disappointing, actually.