Cold Brew Milk Stout
Wachusett Brewing Company

16 oz can acclimated to room temperature for 20 minutes and poured into a stout glass.

Pours black with orange to red highlights and a 1/2 finger frothy, British khaki head, dissipating at an average speed and leaving light lacing.

Initial aroma is char, coffee, prunes, and a note of maple syrup.

Initial taste is very smooth, definitely some char, and a note of coffee, but not a lot, and I can pick up the lactose. This is followed by moderate baking chocolate, then a moderate hoppiness develops, dry and bitter in a very pleasant way, goes well with the chocolate taste. This baking chocolate and hoppiness are what linger in the finish, being joined in the latter half by a mild goji berry sort of acidic red fruitiness.

Overall this is solid. Mild and super easy drinking, with good flavors that compliment each other well.

I will buy it again, because it's good, but also because I can't seem to find any other coffee milk stouts without chocolate in them. (Which isn't inherently a negative, mocha is fantastic, but chocolate doesn't need to be in 90% of adjunct stouts, like it is.)