Milk Stout

New Beer Distributors, NYC bottle ($6): Pours black with a light brown head. Aroma is sugar, dark chocolate, roasted malts, and dark roast coffee. This is certainly a hoppier and roastier milk stout than most which seek to just be agreeable. Here you get that milky sweetness up front, but the finish and aftertaste is pretty hard roast. That said, they are in equipoise, which is nice. Good beer.

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Keg at BrewDog Shepherd’s Bush - London. Pours black-brown with a huge, lasting khaki froth. The nose has a lot of roast, burnt coconut, milk chocolate. Medium to big sweet flavor with lots of sugary chocolate, some charred meat, chocolate, dark fruits, dates. Medium bodied, creamy, with fine to average carbonation. Finishes sugary and sticky, with more chocolate, ashy roast, ripe dark fruits. Pretty tasty but a touch saccharine and lacking cohesion.

Keg at Brewdog Shepherd’s Bush, London. A black coloured pour with a huge beige head on top. Sweet, roasty, malty, chocolate aroma. Tastes similar, sweet, roasty, malty, chocolate, coffee, slightly bitter and creamy. Excellent.

Almost pitch black, strong dark tan head with nice lacing. Aroma is sweet milk chocolate, lactose and strong roasted malt with some coffee. Taste is moderate sweet caramel and chocolate, lactose, hint of vanilla, bitter chocolate, and a very dry coffee bitter finish. Medium bodied and somewhat creamy.

One of three Mikkellers for sale at a Delhaize supermarket since last week. Thick, moussy, dense, deep beige head, colour a very dark mahogany, as good as black. Aroma of caffè latte, cappuccino, cured meat, bitter chocolate, coffee liqueur, ginger, cloves, walnuts, freshly toasted bread. Concentratedly sweet onset, chocolates and raisins, milk powder noticeable too, but not cloying and balanced by a basic, soft sourishness; very creamy, smooth, delicately soft mouthfeel, nice nutty and chocolatey maltiness, supple and sweet with the milky touch accompanying the whole palate; finishes in a gentle, restrained roasted bitterness paired with the continuing sweetness, like a coffee with milk and sugar, pointy accent of peppery hops as well, just enough to cleanly round off the finish but not disturbing the malts and milk effect. Very pleasant and gentle beer, certainly one of the better sweet stouts I had so far.

Bottle thanks to Rainer. Pours a very dark brown with small beige head. The aroma is dark chocolate, cocoa, and roast. Slick mouthfeel, roast, very sweet, dark chocolate, wood, smoke, good.

Bottle at home. Pours black, nose is roasted malts, chocolate, taste is sweet, roasty, milky, bitter.

25.01.2015, 0,33l bottle @ home:
21.01.2013, 0,33l bottle @ Mikkeller Bar:
Big light brown creamy longlasting head. Aroma is slightly sweet roasted, dark malts, mild coffee, roasted grain, chocolate, nuts, burnt caramel, hay, minerals. Taste is sweet roasted, sugar, burnt caramel, lactose, burnt coffee, roasted grain, hay, ashtray, grass, chocolate. Medium bitterness, slightly harsh and watery mouthfeel. Nice enough.