Moo Thunder Stout Farmhouse Ale
Butternuts Beer & Ale

Moo Thunder Stout Farmhouse AleMoo Thunder Stout Farmhouse Ale
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From:
Butternuts Beer & Ale
 
New York, United States
Style:
Sweet / Milk Stout
Ranked #519
ABV:
4.9%
Score:
81
Ranked #25,431
Avg:
3.59 | pDev: 13.93%
Reviews:
342
Ratings:
736
Status:
Active
Rated:
Nov 18, 2023
Added:
Mar 26, 2007
Wants:
  25
Gots:
  87
This stout beer pays tribute to the Butternuts Brewery’s former life as a dairy farm. It’s a more drinkable version of the Stout breed than its heavy, boorish and smelly European sisters. We use lactose sugar for body and mouthfeel; not too strong, not too viscous at 4.9% abv. Unlike a true bovine it has a malty, roasty aroma and a dry finish but no tail or teats, and leaves no unsightly cow pies laying around the yard for you to step in.
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Ratings by MatJones:
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Rated by MatJones from England

4/5  rDev +11.4%

Mar 08, 2012
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Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho

3.23/5  rDev -10%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Can from Total Wine - Henderson. Dark brown pour with fast subsiding head. Aroma is mostly roast grains, some nuttiness. taste also features the roast grains, very minor notes of coffee. Kind of watery.
Nov 18, 2023
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Rated by NCSapiens from Indiana

3.68/5  rDev +2.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Butternuts best beer. It is sort of a mediocre milk stout but meets the qualifications of everything that is expected from the style.
Jan 03, 2023
 
Rated: 3.85 by McSeal from Connecticut

Dec 13, 2022
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Reviewed by HorseheadsHophead from Colorado

4.75/5  rDev +32.3%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 5
Pitch black, with a creamy light brown head. Great retention and lacing!

Smells like roasted malts, dark chocolate, brown sugar, burnt toast, coffee, and vanilla. A tantalizing aroma.

Tastes like dark chocolate, cacao, malted milk balls, burnt toast, toffee, black coffee, and vanilla. Smooth, lightly sweet, but with a decidedly roasty coffee bitter finish.

Creamy feel; medium, medium carbonated, slick.

A top tier milk stout. Tastes ridiculously good for its abv. Amazing.
Jun 09, 2020
 
Rated: 3.15 by Bigbeerman from New York

Apr 30, 2020
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Rated by izraelc from New York

3.75/5  rDev +4.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Pours dark. Thin head. Coffee aroma. Light malt body with heavy bitter coffee finish. Better than expected. Love the packaging.
Apr 12, 2020
 
Rated: 3.97 by brutalist from Pennsylvania

Feb 25, 2019
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Reviewed by Nass from Florida

3.53/5  rDev -1.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
I taste sweet milk chocolate, slight cream taste from the lactose milk sugar, the body is about medium I would say, this beer definitely fits the bill of an milk stout & at 4.9% abv you can put back 3 or 4 of these cans easily in a session. Cheers! B
Feb 06, 2019
 
Rated: 3.77 by TeachChefs from Pennsylvania

Jan 26, 2019
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Reviewed by Act25 from New Jersey

3.65/5  rDev +1.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Best of their beers!
a) Pours a dark chocolate colored body with limp head that laces not so much.
s) Roasty, milky sweet, chocolate.
t) Starts firm enough, starts roasty, with a lots of lactose and creamy chocolate flavor that balances with a bitter edge. Nice.
f) Thinner than I l'd like, mod. carb. but ok.
o) A pleasant light stout finishing mid-pack. Sessionable low ABV, plenty of flavor.
Dec 25, 2018
 
Rated: 4.1 by kwa357 from Pennsylvania

Jul 10, 2018
 
Rated: 3.74 by baldy00 from Connecticut

Mar 18, 2018
 
Rated: 3.72 by SaisonRichBiere from Michigan

Mar 06, 2018
 
Rated: 4.03 by steevo24 from District of Columbia

Feb 25, 2018
 
Rated: 4.28 by LeftyMike from New Jersey

Feb 24, 2018
 
Rated: 3.88 by AC-Mivsek from Ohio

Jan 08, 2018
 
Rated: 4 by 1971bernat from Virginia

Dec 29, 2017
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Rated by Jposton from South Carolina

4.81/5  rDev +34%
look: 4.75 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.75
One of my favorites!
Nov 27, 2017
 
Rated: 4.42 by DougsBrother from Massachusetts

Oct 21, 2017
Moo Thunder Stout Farmhouse Ale from Butternuts Beer & Ale
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