Moose Milk
L'Annexe - Brasserie Fermenterie de Bruxelles in Saint-Gilles / Sint-Gillis, Brussels Capital Region, Belgium 🇧🇪
Stout - Milk / Sweet Regular|
Score
7.17
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
8/I/22 - 50cl bottle from Geers (Oostakker), shared @ figurines painting session (Samuel & Sophie’s place), BB: X/2022 (2022-54)
Clear dark brown to black beer, small creamy beige head, unstable, dissipates quickly. Aroma: malty, grains, word, cow fodder, caramel malts. MF: soft carbon, medium body. Taste: malty, good roast, bitter, grains, cow fodder, coffee. Aftertaste: some chocolate, roast, bit sweet, very malty, hoppy.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Flaska från No Science webshop. Närmast svart vätska med lågt mörkbeige skum. Söt maltig doft med mörkt socker, choklad, mörkt rågbröd, kaffe. Medelstor, mjuk och len kropp, relativt söt utan att bli sliskig. Torrare eftersmak med lite aska, trä ohch mörk choklad. En klassisk old style brittisk milk stout. Välgjord och god och perfekt till portergrytan.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Milk stout as interpreted by l'Annexe in Brussels, from a sturdy 50 cl bottle. Thinnish, greyish beige, open head with some thin grey veils in the middle, eventually dissolving; very dark chocolate brown robe, as good as black, but with a hazy mahogany glow still visible around the edges - in any case looking credible as an English style stout. Aroma of roasted hazelnuts, milk powder, soggy rye bread, sugared black coffee, dried prunes, old raisins, whiffs of unsmoked pipe tobacco, cola, brown rum, marmite, coffee cream, dried apple peel. Sweetish onset with thin sourish edge, sweet apple, pear, raisin and fresh fig, medium to soft carbonation, smooth, nearly full mouthfeel; slick hazelnutty, cocoa nib- and slightly molasses-like malts with lingering lactose sweetness on top yet nowhere becoming cloying. Light herbal (tea) hop notes in the finish, a dash of roasty coffee bitterishness but very softly so, lingering undertone of sourish dried plum; the hops provide a pleasantly leafy, herbal aspect trying to balance out the sweetness, but the lactose gets the last word, albeit in a restrained, nowhere sticky or otherwise annoying way. If this is intended as a 20th-century style English milk stout, then mission accomplished: it has this subtle sweetness, edged with a balancing sourishness, rather than that in-your-face sticky syrupiness of many a postmodern pastry or other sweet stout, and the right amount of subtle end bitterishness to keep it light and quaffable. Likeable, with an added point for being so charmingly old-fashioned.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
50cl bottle from FÄRM.HANKAR bio shop in Brussels. F: medium, tanned, average retention. C: dark, opaque. A: dark malts, chocolate, cocoa, dark fruits, bit cherries, lactic touch. T: medium malty base, chocolate, caramel, bit coffee, dark dried fruits, lactose, soft carbonation, quite nice balanced for the style, enjoyed.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bouteille 50cl, BB 10/2022.
Petite dernière des bruxellois de L'Annexe qui continuent sur leur lancée après une Blonde - voici leur premier essai dans un style stout 'milk stout' quasi le seul style de bière qui pour moi permet un usage de lactose correct - et encore, si ce dernier est bien dosé.
Couleur brune foncée, col fin café au lait.
Arôme sur des effluves marquées de malts - je retrouve des notes de malt grillé, toasté rappelant le pain grillé émietté, chocolaté. Lactose pointe en rétro-nasal.
Palais est plaisant sur de belles notes de malts - retrouve un grillé-toasté torréfié marqué avec un accompagnement lactose qui arrive en fin de bouche et apporte une douceur modérée qui ne vient en rien dominer - ce qui est plutôt appréciable.
Fini sur une note fine chocolatée avec une pointe de grillé-caramel malt toasté qui est franchement bien placée. Le lactose perce en fin de bouche apportant un fini un peu lactique qui s'imisce dans les couches maltées.
Une belle petite réussite, à voir si une version nitro verra le jour - à déguster dans un pub anglais à Bruxelles autour de fish 'n chips, why not?