Carton of Milk
Carton Brewing in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Milk / Sweet Regular|
Score
6.97
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The key to a sessionable beer is the way it evolves over time well spent. Here we took an extremely dark malt bill and dulled its edges with the addition of lactose and nitro conditioning, then we wafted black currant notes of Bullion hops through the middle. Nuanced to keep it an interesting part of a gathering while neither dominating nor being inconsequential to banter. Drink Carton Of Milk because it does a session good.
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7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Pours black, small creamy stable white head. Smell is lactic. Sweet. Taste is sweet, very soft coffee aroma, some chocolate tones. Bit bitter ( in hints) on the aftertaste.
Tried
on 06 Feb 2015
at 12:23
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft. Pours black with off white head. Nose and taste of milk sugar, light roast chocolate and light sweet milk chocolate. Lighter bodied.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Mar 2014
at 19:41
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draft at Barcade, Philadelphia. Nice nose of day old coffee with cream and a plum type of aroma. Flavor is dark roast, coffee, burnt lactose sugar and thought the middle it has a dark fruit flavor that reminds me of prunes or plums. Real interesting way of balancing the roasted malts. The flavor is rather nice and a slightly different take on the style. Sweet lingering roast after the sip. Nice fuller body with a ashy, chalk texture. Well worth a try if you see it on tap.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Jan 2014
at 06:57
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Drought. Dark brown with small creamy tan head, roasted malt aroma, burnt taste, low carbonation, medium finish. I would expect a sweeter, chocolatey taste but not bad.
Tried
on 21 Jan 2014
at 11:13
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Draft at the source. Hazy dark brown color, beige head with nice retention and solid lacing. Aroma of cocoa powder, subtle licorice. Taste is coffee, burnt prunes, bittersweet cocoa. Tasty!
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Oct 2013
at 11:29
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Drop Off Service, NYC tap ($7): Pours cascading head, black, with beige looking foam: very pretty. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, hops. Taste is, as someone else noted, more like a dry stout than a sweet stout. Hop and roasted malt bitterness both present in good effect. Nice and creamy body. Quite good.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Oct 2013
at 08:31
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Tap at Stagshead Carton night. Pours nice and dark with aromas of malt and chocolate. Tastes of chalky cocoa powder, earth, some coffee, milk, and malt. very drinkable
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Aug 2013
at 13:35
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From tap at the brewpub. Pours hazy dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted malty, light chocolate and breadish. Bitter, hard roasted, breadish and light toffee malty. Mild chocolate note. Dry, bitter and hard roasted finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 25 Jun 2013
at 03:44
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Location: Cask at Barcade (Jersey City), 6/1/13
Aroma: It has a roasted malt nose, with coffee, milk, and chocolate
Appearance: The pour is brown with fairly minimal head/lace
Flavor: The taste is roasted over sweet, malty, light bitter finish
Palate: The body is medium-plus, smooth, creamy cask feel, and dry finish
Overall Impression: I liked this one. I found out later (there's a video) that the roasty over sweet was completely the intention, in which case they did a very nice job of making the beer they were trying to make.
Tried
from Cask
on 01 Jun 2013
at 17:35
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6
on tap-pours a black with a tight light brown head. Aroma is ashy/molasses-dark malt. Taste is bitter chocolate/roasty/ashy-dark malt, earthy hops.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 May 2012
at 13:03