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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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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Dark, rich, and roasty, but with a lighter feel than expected, modestly carbonated and somewhat thin. Works flavor-wise, however, with heavy notes of char, dark chocolate, and anise backed by undertones of black cherry, date, and molasses. Thankfully restrained with the lactose; the beer merely flirts with cocoa indulgence rather than turning into a pint of fudge. Finishes moderately bitter with hints of espresso and roast. Texture could use a little beefing up, but otherwise a good stout. Slightly better than it scores.
Tried
on 29 Jul 2018
at 01:02
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can: Poured a pitch-black color stout with a nice large dark brown foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of sweet cocoa notes with light roasted malt notes is very dessert-like. Taste is a mix of sweet coca notes with some black chocolate, some light roasted malt with some residual sugar notes. Body is full with nice creamy notes with some good carbonation and no apparent alcohol. Very enjoyable dessert stout.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Jun 2018
at 17:16
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Dark body, almost completely opaque black body with a thick, three to four centimetre tall rich tan head. Aroma of fresh grain, a touch of caramel and toffee with a big hit of vanilla and very dry roasted oatmeal and some specialty grains. Medium-bodied; Assertive roasty flavour with some grain noticeable at first, but a smooth sweetness showing lactose, cream, alcohol, caramel, toffee, but an underlying and very strong cognac or brandy type flavour that shows seemingly way more alcohol than 7,0%. Aftertaste is pungent, not too complex, but showing a lot of depth with the roasted malts the strongest, along with some grain and of course the caramel and toffee sweetness that hits quite hard. Overall, a nicely structured and well-flavoured pungent sweet stout that shows a good level of sweetness, but still a lot of malt and vanilla notes, but leaving the palate relatively clean. I sampled this sixteen ounce, pint-sized can purchased a few minutes ago from Whole Foods in New York (Bowery), New York on 23-February-2018 for US$3,99 sampled in my hotel room here in New York on 23-February-2018.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Feb 2018
at 04:40
7/10
In Louisville after drinking delicious Van Winkle bourbon!
Tried
at
Jack Fry's
on 28 Dec 2017
at 21:47
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Sampled from a 16 oz can this beer poured a black color with a huge creamy dark brown head that lingered forever and left excellent lacing. The aroma was sweet chocolate, anise and toasty malts. The flavor was sweet and malty with black licorice, cocoa and vanilla. Very long finish. Full bodied and smooth. Excellent.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Dec 2017
at 16:00
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Keg at Brewdog Shepherds Bush, London. A black coloured pour with a medium beige head on top. Roasty, malty, coffee, chocolate aroma. Tastes roasty, malty, chocolate, some coffee, a little thin but still a decent stout.
Tried
on 16 Dec 2017
at 05:39