Absence Of Light
4 Hands Brewing Co.

I gave this one a shot because it’s from a good local brewery and I tried their regular chocolate milk stout a couple of years ago. It’s not bad, no better no worse than its cousin, but it wasn’t overwhelming in any aspect. Predominantly dark semi-sweet chocolate over the top of a pretty moderate stout that was neither thick nor chewy or sweet. Almost no carbonation, even right at the time I poured it… Normally, I find the peanut butter aspects of beers like this to be a bit nauseating. Fortunately, I did not taste much of anything like that, but overall this was not my jam. One and done.

 

 

 

Ok milk stout with some chocolate and peanut butter notes. Hops disjointedly pome through on the finish.

 

Dark jet black with slight bits of ruby look with a bubbly beige head. Dark chocolate taste right away, small Reese’s taste. You can taste the alcohol in this. Low to semi-sweet Dark chocolate chip taste. Not too crazy, doesn’t have a ton of smaller flavors present. Heavier feel in your mouth. It’s good.

 

I'm not sure if that thing on the front is supposed to look appetizing, but it sort of looks like diarrhea. So does the beer when you pour it since it's so dark. Luckily, it's pretty delicious (the beer, not diarrhea). The peanut butter taste is very forward. This stuff is understandably thick, but not in an unpleasant way. The peanut butter and chocolate flavoring overwhelms the natural stout flavor. Smells vaguely of peanut butter and at 7.1%, alcohol.

The individual elements don't seem to congeal as well as they could, but that's a minor gripe. I also think it would be better at around 5%, but this is still a delicious brew that's easy to drink.

Nice sweet-tasting stout, but not too sweet. It is a good balance.

 

Cola soda brown it is, after the liquid from a pint can has been emptied into a clear glass liter mug. There's almost no head and there's little obvious carbonation. There are traces of the flavors listed on the label, but none are profound. This goes down smoothly, but only gives hints of the taste treats promised. That may not be a bad thing. It's a mildly flavored sweet milk chocolate stout. If that's what you like, this is one for you.

 

 

 

Pours a nearly translucent black that's ruby when you hold it up to the light. It has a very small town head that dissipates within seconds. The smells is like sweet peanut butter with hints of milk chocolate bad slight undertones of butter coffee. The taste is very sweet up front with the peanut butter leading the way followed by sweet milk chocolate with a slightly bittersweet finish. It's not very carbonated but it goes well with the style. Overall pretty good but too sweet for me to have more than one in a night.