On tap at Poor Henry’s, superb winter stout offers oats-flaked lactic sugaring to creamy brown chocolate sweetness, molasses-draped carapils malting and dry vanilla-beaned nuttiness.
On tap at Arooga’s, moderated black chocolate and cocoa nibs creaminess picks up charred hop bittering to contrast chalky mocha stead. Below, black grape, black cherry and blackberry wisps try to infiltrate bittersweet dark chocolate finish.
On tap at Amazing Grapes, ridiculously complex and thoroughly gratifying milk stout utilizes rich Guatemalan Antigua cold-press coffee creaming to support syrupy maple molasses sweetness and pig-fatty scrapple flouring. Applewood-smoked barley, oats-flaked roasted chicory, black-peppered cumin spicing and ashen hop char reinforce mighty mocha molasses fortress of fascinating breakfast coffee alternative.
On tap at Amazing Grapes, interesting soft-toned Neopolitan ice cream knockoff spreads creamy brown chocolate and vanilla sweetness above sugared strawberry sass. Beneath the surface, hop-charred black malts gain black currant bittering to contrast tertiary red grape, black cherry, raspberry and blackberry undertones and chocolate truffle wisps. In the bottle, dark-roasted nuttiness underscores chocolate-vanilla creaminess and less obvious strawberry tartness. Worthy dessert beer.
Though its bittersweet strawberry adjunct gets buried beneath the syrupy black chocolate milking, creamy caramel-burnt dark cocoa subsidy and tertiary coffee roast, rich sweet stout never fails to arouse tastebuds as a fine dessert treat. Milk Dud-like midst picks up modest vanilla, molasses and nutty nougat nuances to champion its mighty mocha mass above mild hop-charred bittering.
On tap at Growler & Gill, streamlined medium roast coffee bean setting picks up mild milk-sugared sweetness and lightly embittered hop char for off-dry English-styled stout. Moderate dark chocolate creaminess and barren nuttiness waver beneath.
On tap at Doherty’s, delightful milk stout adds sweet cinnamon-ginger seasoning to rich black chocolate template. Spiced-up milk chocolate fudging picks up cookie dough respite and recessive black cherry souring. In the can, creamy milk chocolate syruping saturates ginger-rooted cinnamon and nutmeg spicing as coffee-toned cocoa powdering enhances the robust mocha intensity.
Starting off richer and creamier than it finishes, sweet milk stout brings radiant oats-sugared Sumatran coffee bean affluence to ascending brown chocolate roast. Caffeinated milk-sugared coffee frontage jolts the system as caramel-burnt cookie dough chewiness and dark-roasted nuttiness deepen conviction while oily hop bittering settles below.