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Against the Grain Brewery in Louisville, Kentucky, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Milk / Sweet Regular|
Score
7.25
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Not your typical “Jelly of the Month Club” beer. Dark roasted malt and bittersweet cocoa and coffee flavor and aroma burst from this pitch black milk stout. The full body and sweetness are derived from the addition of lactose (aka milk sugar) which is not fermentable by beer yeast. A healthy dose of English Kent Goldings hops provides a counterpoint to this ale’s rich and complex maltiness.
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7.5/10
Good milk stout! Bittersweet, like my feelings of leaving this city so soon.
Tried
on 03 Aug 2025
at 11:58
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle. Deep dark brown with a tan head. The coffee comes through in both the taste and aroma.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2025
at 05:59
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can from Drankenhandel Leiden. Aroma is roasted malt, sweet powdery cocoa, lactose, milk chocolate, some coffee, caramel. Flavour is sweet with a moderate to medium roasty bitter finish. Body is medium. Good.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Feb 2025
at 07:07
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Tried
on 03 Dec 2024
at 23:04
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Poured from 473mL can. Dark brown with beige head. Creamy oaty roast malt with a hint of coffee. Well balanced and enjoyable milk stout.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Jun 2023
at 07:08
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On tap. Pours an opaque dark brown, almost black with a small, creamy, short lived, beige head that leaves curtains of lace. Sweet aroma of roasted malt, dark chocolate, caramel and coffee. Sweet flavour of roasted malt, lactose, chocolate, caramel, raisin and coffee in a dry, mild bitter finish. Medium to full body with a creamy, smooth, oily texture and soft carbonation. Delicious and enjoyable.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 May 2023
at 01:06
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
16 oz. can from Total Wine. Pours a pitch black color with a huge tan head (95% foam) and annoyingly excellent retention. This is gonna take a while. Very good lacing. Very dark roasted malt aroma with some coffee too. The taste follows the nose. Charred malt flavor dominates with some coffee notes in the finish. Mildly sweet, and some dark bittering chocolate. Medium-heavy body. Semi-creamy mouthfeel. The 7.0% ABV is almost completely hidden. Good balanced stout.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Jul 2022
at 20:56
7.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Can at a tasting with the boys. Quite full body, oily texture. Medim carbonation. Moderate deep coffeeish roast, also moderate lactose. Also moderately warming in the finish, why? Idk, but it is not exactly easy drinking. Quite good, but slightly too harsh for what it is.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Aug 2021
at 18:19
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Shared at Bratislava tasting August 2021. Black color. Chocolate with whipped cream, coffee, vanilla, licorice.
Tried
on 11 Aug 2021
at 18:19
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Can. Malty aroma and taste, chocolate, lught roasty notes, lactose, light sweet, medium bitter. Medium body, malty chocolate bitter finish. Good.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Aug 2021
at 18:17