After mentioning this milk stout from Left Hand Brewing Company in last week's round-up of favorite fall beers, we couldn't resist picking up a few bottles to have right away. So creamy and sweet you'd swear there was real milk in there, this is one stout that never fails to deliver! Do you agree?
Beer Details: Milk Stout from Left Hand Brewing Company in Longmont, Colorado. Available year-round. $10 on average for six 12-ounce bottles, 5.9% alcohol by volume.
Appearance: Dark coffee brown with a thin caramel-colored head of carbonation.
Aroma: Melted chocolate with a hint of toasted nut.
Taste: With our eyes closed, we could almost swear we were sipping a delicious, milky iced-coffee beverage. This beer is seriously silky on the tongue, leaving behind a lingering creamy texture. It tastes like the best espresso you've ever had: strong and black with soft caramel flavors and a hint of burnt sugar. The hops provide just enough bitterness to balance all those crazy sweet malt flavors.
Food Pairings: We really like this as a dessert or after-dinner beer. Try it on its own or with cream-based desserts like panna cotta and bread pudding!
What do you think of this beer?
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Just tried it myself. Is it called milk stout because it is brewed with malo lactic acid?
Love the beer, love the Brewery.
You want silky, get your hands on Squatters' Captain Bastard's Oatmeal Stout (Salt Lake City, Utah)!
@art: Gosh - I'm not a scientist, but I am a beer & wine geek... so, malolactic fermentation is related to the wine making process/gives something like a chardonnay that buttery, rounded mouthfeel (but you're on the right track) - milk stouts are made w/lactose, which is only partially fermented... gives the stouts a sweeter taste. [my butchered, half-knowledge of the fermentation process] I'm sure there's an overlap somewhere w/the lactose-lactic acid-malolactic acid-diacetyl production issue, but I can't answer that(!). There. Clear as stout. (haha)
Also: Hitachino Milk Stout. Fantastic.
ahhh, lactose. thanks!
I just discovered Left Hand earlier this summer at a bar in NYC called Rattle N' Hum. They have a great beer selection there, I think it's something like 48 on tap, and Left Hand is a brewery that they carry (or, well, at the time carried) about four or five different varieties.
My favorite stout of all time is still Young's Double Chocolate Stout. I love that purple and orange can.
My fave beer. Don't let the secret out!
If you enjoy this one, you should also try Duck Rabbit Milk Stout, brewed here in NC! Its delicious, I drool just thinking about it....
Left Hand is a 5 minute drive from my home and we go to their large tasting room often. Their Milk Stout is wonderful but they often have it at the brewery on cask and it's even better that way. It's smoother and creamier than the bottle version. Whenever it's on cask that's all I drink that night. Superb. But then so is the rest of their line of fine beers.