Gunner's Daughter
Mast Landing Brewing Company in Westbrook, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Milk / Sweet Regular|
Score
7.42
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A beautifully aromatic and balanced milk stout with delicious notes of peanut butter, coffee, and dark chocolate. This dark, mythical beer nods to the long-passed legends of our region’s seafarers.
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Draft pour at Southern Grist 3rd Anniversary. Pours a deep brown with a finger of beige head that lingers. Big cocoa powder forward nose with peanut butter and cold brew coffee aromas. Smooth and decadent on the palate with a thick, creamy texture. Good peanut butter notes without being overly dry. Sweetness is there, but not overly so. Balanced and thick. Very good. --- Beer merged from original tick of Gunner's Daughter Milk Stout on 25 Feb 2019 at 10:03 - Score: 7
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Apr 2019
at 02:01
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pours mahogany tinged black into a shaker. Tan head with good retention recedes leaving sheet lacing. Milk chocolate and Cocoa Puff aromas. Sweet with mixed morning cereal milk from front to back... Cocoa Puffs, Sugar Pops, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch... put a little coffee in it and you've got a true breakfast stout.
Tried
on 04 Feb 2019
at 00:56
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Got in a trade with brutalfarce. 16 ounce can into tulip glass, canned on 12/12/2018. Pours nearly opaque dark brown/black color with a 1 finger dense and rocky light khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of big peanut butter, milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, vanilla, cream, roasted nuts, and toasted dark/brown bread; with light notes of toffee, dark fruit, smoke, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, peanut butter, lactose, and light fruity yeast/earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big peanut butter, milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, vanilla, cream, roasted nuts, and toasted dark/brown bread; with light notes of toffee, dark fruit, smoke, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Light herbal, floral, grassy hop; and roasted bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of peanut butter, milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, vanilla, cream, roasted nuts, toasted dark/brown bread, light toffee/smoke, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Fantastic complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, peanut butter, lactose, and light fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; with an awesome roast/hop bitter/sweet balance, and no cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering hop/roast bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/bready, and lightly sticky/chalky mouthfeel that is great. Maybe just a tad thinner than expected. Minimal warming alcohol as expected of 5.5%. Overall this is a fantastic flavored milk/sweet stout. All around outstanding complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, peanut butter, lactose, and light fruity yeast/earthy hop flavors; extremely smooth and easy to drink with the mildly bitter/drying finish; great soft feel. Awesome balance of rich malts, lactose, and peanut butter flavors; with mild fruity yeast and balancing earthy hops against sweetness. A highly enjoyable offering, and spot on English style example.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Jan 2019
at 05:39
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12.5.18.
Mahogany with olivine tints. Light tan head shows low retention. Can't tell the clarity.
Lovely nose full of roasted peanut, milk chocolate, char, prune and vanilla that all give a highly aromatic, rich character with good balance and no alcohol or overdone aspects.
Flavor is slightly less exciting with more caramel, lactose and somewhat disjointed peanut butter, as well as a bit of thinning. Seems more adjunct-textured than malt textured at points, though the individual flavors are all good. Low, somewhat engaging carbonation and moderate attenuation. Very solid for a regular canned offering. The recipe seems great and hopefully gets refined further.
Mahogany with olivine tints. Light tan head shows low retention. Can't tell the clarity.
Lovely nose full of roasted peanut, milk chocolate, char, prune and vanilla that all give a highly aromatic, rich character with good balance and no alcohol or overdone aspects.
Flavor is slightly less exciting with more caramel, lactose and somewhat disjointed peanut butter, as well as a bit of thinning. Seems more adjunct-textured than malt textured at points, though the individual flavors are all good. Low, somewhat engaging carbonation and moderate attenuation. Very solid for a regular canned offering. The recipe seems great and hopefully gets refined further.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Dec 2018
at 23:17
3.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
How: Can.
Where: Tasting 2018-11-17.
Appearance: Dark brown, almost black, colour with a beige head.
Aroma: Lactose, peanut butter, coffee, chocolate, caramel.
Body: Medium body and carbonation.,
Flavour: Peanut butter, lactose, sweet malt, coffee, some chocolate.
Comment: At first sniff it actually had quite a nice aroma, but it is quickly overwhelmed by the sweet lactose, peanut butter mix. Flavour is sweet, peanut and just too much. Seems to be very hard to make a decent beer with peanut butter in it.
Where: Tasting 2018-11-17.
Appearance: Dark brown, almost black, colour with a beige head.
Aroma: Lactose, peanut butter, coffee, chocolate, caramel.
Body: Medium body and carbonation.,
Flavour: Peanut butter, lactose, sweet malt, coffee, some chocolate.
Comment: At first sniff it actually had quite a nice aroma, but it is quickly overwhelmed by the sweet lactose, peanut butter mix. Flavour is sweet, peanut and just too much. Seems to be very hard to make a decent beer with peanut butter in it.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Nov 2018
at 10:34
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft pour for flight at The Grill Next Door. Appearance is opaque, dark brown with thin ring of head, no discernible sparkle and no lacing. Aroma is strong peanut butter without getting much else. Taste is peanut butter, almost a coffee bitterness out of the roasted malt and a pleasant earthy bitterness and milky/lactose. Palate is light-to-medium bodied with thin, smooth, frothy texture with average carbonation; finish is mainly peanut butter and fairly dry. Overall, the peanut butter dominates everything else. This doesn't compromise the stout, but makes it one dimensional.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Nov 2018
at 21:49
1.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 1
Flavor 1
Texture 2
Overall 0.5
Canned, at AndySnow tasting. Near black, small head. Reeks of boiled milk and peanut butter. Sweet with medium body and rounded mouthfeel. Revolting flavour of boiled milk and stale butter. Peanut butter and vomit. Low bitterness. Undrinkable
Tried
from Can
on 17 Nov 2018
at 20:22
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
I’ve always avoided peanut butter brew for no real reason I can think of. Alas here we go. Dark pour. Nose is rich peanut butter. Tastes of peanut butter, some children and toasted malt. The peanut butter dominates but in creamy and pleasing way.
Tried
from Can
on 17 Nov 2018
at 03:51
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
4 oz pour on draft at Rustico Alexandria. Dark brownish black with tan head. Aromas of peanut butter, dark chocolate, roast. Tastes of peanut butter, roast, chocolate. Medium body with a dry finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Nov 2018
at 23:51