Over the Moon
Guinness Open Gate Brewery Halethorpe in Halethorpe, Maryland, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Milk / Sweet Regular|
Score
6.81
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Aroma: chocolate ,sweetness, roast
Flavor: round mouthfeel, subtle sweetness, chocolate
Brewer’s Notes: Made with unfermentable lactose sugar, which give it a distinctive sweetness compared to a dry stout.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12oz can. Brown-black-ruby red body. Steady beige head. Pretty balanced, enjoyable for the style. Roasty, but also has a pleasantly sweet lacto balance. A little more delicate than most examples, which I appreciate. Pretty good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Not bad, offering up a gentle blend of chocolate, dark fruit, coffee, and caramel, with a roasty backbone and modest lactose sweetness on the back end. Finishes with a flourish of vanilla, cherry, cocoa, and char. Grows a little too sugary as it warms, but still makes for a decent pint.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Blue can as pictured. Deep dark brown with a tan head. Not much aroma but the taste is full of chocolate and malt. Some sweetness on the chocolate. Hides alky well, quite smooth. Easy, decent milk stout. Yes, not bad. Ever so slight burnt old damp campfire wood lurking back there on the palate. Decent carbonation. Good, easy to enjoy, mild dark brew.
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Chocolate malt and dry hay aroma. Black with large brown head. Mildly sweet milk chocolate malt, and lightly bitter hay flavor. Okay body - moderate carbonation. Okay but not too smooth or creamy - pretty basic.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
12 ounce can into pint glass, canned on 10/2/2019. Pours crystal clear deep ruby red/brown color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy light khaki head with great retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice dense spotty foamy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Aromas of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, vanilla, cream, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, dark/brown bread/crust, raisin, plum, pear, red apple, smoke, char, wood, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. A bit too fruity/yeasty aromas, but not overwhelming. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malts, lactose, fruity yeast, and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, vanilla, cream, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, dark/brown bread/crust, raisin, plum, pear, red apple, smoke, char, wood, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Light herbal, woody, grassy, peppery, roast, charred bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of milk/dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, vanilla, cream, roasted nuts, toasted biscuit, dark/brown bread/crust, dark fruit, smoke, char, wood, herbal, grass, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malts, lactose, and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with a great roast/hop bitter/sweet balance; and no cloying, acrid, astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering bitterness. Medium carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/silky/bready, and fairly sticky/chalky mouthfeel that is good. A bit thin feeling. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.3%. Overall this is a very good English milk stout. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malts, lactose, and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the mellowly bitter/charred/drying finish. Nicely soft, flavorful and not too watery for the ABV. Well balanced between nicely rich English malts, lactose, earthy hops, and fruity yeast. Light residual sweetness with lingering dryness. A very enjoyable offering, and well made English style example. Wish it was a bit less yeasty.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Deep dark brown coloured body with a very thin, creamy and just off-white head that fades fairly quickly. Aroma of oatmeal, roasted malt, light grain, some cream and lactose and a dash of dark chocolate and alcohol towards the end. Light to Medium-bodied; Assertive roasted malt and oatmeal notes with a large bit of bitterness from the grain and roasted notes, but a lot of lactose and creamy notes show some nice sweetness with a bit of vanilla and chocolate definitely noticeable. Aftertaste has a touch of cherries, light grapes, lactose, cream, vanilla, light coffee and a smooth sweetness towards the end. Overall, a nice and robust, very earthy and potent sweet stout with some lactose and cream sweetness towards the end with a large complex, yet, very-easy-drinking profile throughout. Nice to sample and a good, slightly more flavoured addition to the family of beers (compared to the traditional stout), but still much less complex than the Foreign Exports (aside from perhaps the plain Chinese version). I sampled this twelve ounce can, purchased from Giant Food in Arlington (Columbia Pike), Virginia on 21-November-2019 for US$1,87 sampled at home in Washington on 23-November-2019, just two days later.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
12 ounce can from Festival Neenah, 11/18/19. Dark brown, large foamy tan head, good retention. Aroma of strong lactose, chocolate, roast. Taste is roast, molasses, lactose, chocolate. Medium bodied, low bitterness, lingering sweetness (but not terribly off balance). Decent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can pour into nonic pint glass from Total Wine & More, Burlington. Appearance is clear mahogany-dark brown with no sparkle, 2-finger width, light brown foamy head with poor retention and minimal leggy lacing. Aroma is earthy toffee, toasted malts, lactose, cocoa. Taste follows aroma exactly. Mouthfeel is light side of light-to-medium bodied with smooth, thin texture, average carbonation and finish as taste. Overall, a bit thin. Typical earthy European flavor. Decent.