Bernie Milk Stout
Noon Whistle Brewing Company in Naperville, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Milk / Sweet Regular|
Score
6.81
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7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Got in a trade with The-Adjunct-Hippie. 12 ounce can into pint glass, no can dating. Pours nearly opaque dark brown/black color with a 2 finger fairly dense and fluffy khaki head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a large cap that lasts. Thick soapy lacing clings down the glass, with a good amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, cream, and toasted dark/brown bread; with lighter notes of coffee, nuttiness, herbal, and roast/toasted earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malts, lactose, and light earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of big milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, cream, and toasted dark/brown bread; with lighter notes of coffee, nuttiness, herbal, and roast/toasted earthiness. Very mild herbal/spicy hop and roasted bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of milk chocolate, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar, toffee, vanilla, cream, toasted dark/brown bread, light coffee/nuttiness, herbal, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malts, lactose, and light earthy hop flavors; with a nice roast/hop bitter/sweet balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium-high carbonation and medium body; with a very smooth, creamy, silky, and lightly velvety mouthfeel that is awesome. Slight hop stickiness, chalky roast, and dryness. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5%. Overall this is a delicious milk stout! All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malts, lactose, and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the very mildly bitter/drying finish. Great well rounded stout complexity, with nice richness for the low ABV. It was over-carbonated, but actually felt a lot smoother/silkier because if it. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Nov 2017
at 18:37
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Purchased at Bottles and Cans in Chicago, IL; enjoyed at home nervously before the start of game 4 of NLDS. Appearance is pitch black, moderate consistency, large off white head. Aroma of light chocolate and lactose. Taste is pretty good, not too sweet, very much like chocolate milk. Good stuff
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Oct 2016
at 20:42