Udderly Vanilla
Sherbrooke Liquor Store
- From:
- Sherbrooke Liquor Store
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Sweet / Milk Stout
- ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.61 | pDev: 7.2%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 20, 2014
- Added:
- Apr 19, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.83/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.83/5 rDev +6.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
341ml bottle, from a recipe provided by local homebrewer Ernie Boffa, and brewed at Alley Kat, dubbed a 'Vanilla Latte Milk Stout'. Made with added lactose, coffee, and vanilla, this is Sherbrooke Liquor's summer 2013 release, a stout (ok) at that. Cute name, though, and associated label imagery, including a groaner pun in the small print.
This beer pours a solid dark abyss, with mahogany highlights at the edges, with two fingers of bubbly, loosely foamy beige head, which leaves a nice low-ebbing band of honeycombed lace around the glass as it genially recedes.
It smells of mildly roasted bready caramel malt, bittersweet languishing office coffee pot, muddled cafe-au-lait, rather faint, and pithy, vanilla extract, and a drying earthy hoppiness. The taste is more softly toasted, grainy caramel malt, a swirling Double-Double sweet coffee milkiness, edgy, almost boozy vanilla, and a wee touch of leafy, weedy hops.
The carbonation is very well structured - initially a tad too fervent for the style, but soon deftly receding to an unseen support role, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, the expected creaminess kind of befuddled by the sharpness of the vanilla and hops. It finishes off-dry, the somewhat punchy coffee notes providing an adequate offset to the malt, cocoa, milk, and now sort of switched-up vanilla sweetness.
A tasty enough milk stout, lots going on with the guest ingredients, I'm happy to report. However, the silky smoothness that I require at least a perfunctory nod to, seems stunted by a protracted edginess - whether it be alcohol or hop, that might require another bottle to fully determine.
Apr 19, 2013This beer pours a solid dark abyss, with mahogany highlights at the edges, with two fingers of bubbly, loosely foamy beige head, which leaves a nice low-ebbing band of honeycombed lace around the glass as it genially recedes.
It smells of mildly roasted bready caramel malt, bittersweet languishing office coffee pot, muddled cafe-au-lait, rather faint, and pithy, vanilla extract, and a drying earthy hoppiness. The taste is more softly toasted, grainy caramel malt, a swirling Double-Double sweet coffee milkiness, edgy, almost boozy vanilla, and a wee touch of leafy, weedy hops.
The carbonation is very well structured - initially a tad too fervent for the style, but soon deftly receding to an unseen support role, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, the expected creaminess kind of befuddled by the sharpness of the vanilla and hops. It finishes off-dry, the somewhat punchy coffee notes providing an adequate offset to the malt, cocoa, milk, and now sort of switched-up vanilla sweetness.
A tasty enough milk stout, lots going on with the guest ingredients, I'm happy to report. However, the silky smoothness that I require at least a perfunctory nod to, seems stunted by a protracted edginess - whether it be alcohol or hop, that might require another bottle to fully determine.
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