That's What She Said
Tree House Brewing Company in Charlton, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Milk / Sweet Regular|
Score
7.51
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A sneakily complex beer, "TWSS" exhibits flavors of milk chocolate, fresh roasted coffee, caramel, and even a hint of smoke. It is absolutely loaded with flavor for a 5.6% beer, and the inclusion of Lactose takes the edge off of the dry, roasty notes found in a typical stout. The adult chocolate milk shake. . . soft, creamy, and luscious while maintaining supreme drinkability - just the way we like it! A beer that is notorious for converting ‘pale’ beer lovers to the dark side!
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
16oz can. Pours out dark brown almost black topped with a small tan head. Nose is super milk chocolate wow chocolate milkshake sweetness. Taste is more of the heavy milk chocolate roast malts and some nice roast.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Nov 2015
at 21:59
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can. Pours opaque black, large creamy tan head, long lasting and nice lacing. Aroma is roasted burned malts, lactose sugar, cocoa. Flavor is light sweet, medium bitter, roasty, a bit burned, lactose apparent, some milk chocolate. Medium body, creamy mouthfeel. Solid.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Oct 2015
at 16:30
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
LSAT Freedom Trip #210. Shared at a tasting. Dark brown, thin fizzy tan head, good retention. Aroma of roasted malts, chocolate, coffee. The taste is chocolate, vanilla, cherries, cocoa. Medium bodied, lingering bitterness.
Tried
on 15 Oct 2015
at 01:00
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can thanks to Rob. Pours a very dark brown with small beige head that diminishes nothing. The aroma is roast, cinnamon, cocoa. Medium mouth, strong roast, cocoa, bitter finish, light dryness, good.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Oct 2015
at 21:25
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can shared by Dave M, thanks for the opportunity! Rich roasty chocolate and light caramel with just enough earthy hops to balance. Pretty damn fine stout right here.
Tried
from Can
on 18 Sep 2015
at 23:01
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Sample from growler at the Northeastern Brewery (ME/MA) Tasting on 08/09/2015. Dark brown color with a medium khaki head that diminishes gradually to a film. Patchy lacing on the glass. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate and coffee. Light-bodied with a roasty coffee and malt character, with some chocolate in the background. The finish is sweet with a chocolate malt aftertaste. Pretty good all around.
Tried
from Growler
on 04 Sep 2015
at 10:39
8/10
Tried
on 22 Aug 2015
at 12:46
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught at the brewery, 1/18/14
Light tan head tops an inky black body with some lighter dark brown edges. Well-retained, even for a sample. Seems to be opaque.
Lactic-meets-chocolate nose evens out to produce a molasses aroma, with light roast and some definite vanilla-cream notes. Moderate strength of aroma, like how the lactose is apparent in the nose. Light anise notes and even some marshmallow flavors. Toasted, bready malts. Quite a lot going on for a sweet sout.
Sweeter than I would expect, based on the nose. Milk sugar and light prune vie for dominance, but the maltiness and sugars easily win. A bit watery on the end. More hop bitterness would go a long way here, as the very light roastiness and lactic notes are the only thing battling the sweetness. Drinkable, but I can’t imagine having more than a pint of this. Then again, sweet stouts are a very strange style. How can you fault a "sweet" stout for being sweet? And it does have some interesting vinousness, as mentioned. Will revisit, as this brewery seems to be quite worthwhile.
Can drunk 4/13/17.
Quite nice and hides the lactose much better than any of the "Shot" series. More roast and a bit lighter overall, with much less sugar and fudge. Very nice and vastly outdid the Double Shot we tried earlier.
Light tan head tops an inky black body with some lighter dark brown edges. Well-retained, even for a sample. Seems to be opaque.
Lactic-meets-chocolate nose evens out to produce a molasses aroma, with light roast and some definite vanilla-cream notes. Moderate strength of aroma, like how the lactose is apparent in the nose. Light anise notes and even some marshmallow flavors. Toasted, bready malts. Quite a lot going on for a sweet sout.
Sweeter than I would expect, based on the nose. Milk sugar and light prune vie for dominance, but the maltiness and sugars easily win. A bit watery on the end. More hop bitterness would go a long way here, as the very light roastiness and lactic notes are the only thing battling the sweetness. Drinkable, but I can’t imagine having more than a pint of this. Then again, sweet stouts are a very strange style. How can you fault a "sweet" stout for being sweet? And it does have some interesting vinousness, as mentioned. Will revisit, as this brewery seems to be quite worthwhile.
Can drunk 4/13/17.
Quite nice and hides the lactose much better than any of the "Shot" series. More roast and a bit lighter overall, with much less sugar and fudge. Very nice and vastly outdid the Double Shot we tried earlier.
Tried
from Can
on 19 Jan 2014
at 16:24
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Growler thanks to Leighton. It pours near black with a medium tan head. The nose is earth, light roast, toast, cocoa, lactose, creaminess and light smoke. The taste is smooth, roasty, milk chocolate, cocoa, maltesers, toast, coffee and marshmallow. Medium body, fine carbonation and velvety mouth-feel. Smooth and very drinkable indeed.
Tried
from Growler
on 15 Dec 2013
at 09:22
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Growler split at CBC, thanks to Leighton, 05/12/13. Mid black with a moderate tan covering. Nose carries a good roast blast, dark toffee fudge, cocoa nibs, earthy tones. Taste comprises earthy cocoa, light roast, dark toffee notes, sugar, sweet lactic roounding, touch of coffee. Medium bodied, fine carbonation. Decent.
Tried
from Growler
on 14 Dec 2013
at 01:40