Chocolate Milk Stout
4 Hands Brewing Co.

 

16oz can from Tavour. Near black pour, fizzy brown pour yields small islands of fine bubbles. Chocolaty aroma, cocoa. Taste brings in sweet milky flavors. Almost creamy texture. I bet this rocks on nitro!

 

16oz can courtesy of @russpowell; first experience with 4 Hands
Poured into a Baerlic Belgian-style tulip

P deep mahogany/black w/ a 1-2f khaki head; fairly quick recession
N med nose of chocolate, vanilla, light roast, and char; pleasant
T follows nose with chocolate over light-med roast, smoothed out by vanilla; some grassiness/roasty bitterness mixed w/ cream in the finish; more grassy character as it opens
Mf light-med to med bodied; med to med-high carb; carb diminishes as I drink through it; coating finish that's a bit on the flat side
O not too bad; enjoyed it less as it warmed, though (didnt care for the grassy/roast/cream notes paired with the diminished carb); appreciate the opportunity nonetheless, Russ!

Review date: 09.21.25
Can date: not captured

Thanks russpowell.
beautiful in the glass. mocha colored head pushes a solid 3 fingers before settling to a loose finger+ in height. Great retention with light lacing.
Nose is warm, mildly sweet chocolate and maybe a hint of vanilla.
Flavor follows the nose nicely but also carries a hint of mild roast akin to brown bread and coffee.
Mouthfeel is just shy of medium, mildly bitter, with light carb.

 

 

 

Malty with fully rounded mouth feel a la beer float / stout-shake, a nice thing to have nestled in the cooler for breakfast after a night of fever dreams, cool and soothing; if it existed earlier in history it could have sold next to Ovaltine: make you strong. Update: Ovaltine still exists.

 

16oz can. No dating information found.
Dark brown colored body. One finger of light tan head, which quickly recedes to a spotty cap and ring. A few lacing spots are left behind.
Aroma is dominated by milk chocolate, with some vanilla.
Taste is very much an expression of sweetened chocolate, and vanilla. Roasted malts provide a base for the sweet stuff. Chocolate milk lingers in the aftertaste.
Medium mouth feel, with a touch of cream for texture. Low bitterness. Okay carbonation.
A sessionable chocolate milk stout, but probably too sweet for more than two glasses. Straightforward sweet milk stout with a dominate chocolate flavor.

 

 

 

 

 

I don't know what beer the rest of the reviewers are drinking, but this is one of the worst stouts i have ever had, it doesn't even taste like a stout, it tastes like some one took unsweet chocolate milk and mixed it with Budweiser, i can taste the unsweet chocolate flavor and the drink is slightly creamy but other then that tastes too much like a drunken experiment in the kitchen then an actual brew, I'm disappointed because i love stouts, and a chocolate milk stout sounded awesome (my favorite stout is "Absence of light" a peanut butter chocolate stout) but this just left me feeling like i wasted my money, especially with how much it tastes like Budweiser (i HATE Budweiser, Coors and Miller too) also i don't have a sense of smell so i cant give the smell a proper rating so i just gave it a 1

Looks a lot more appetizing than the peanut butter variety in can design and liquid appearance. It's smooth, and lighter than you'd imagine given that it's both milk and a stout. It's chocolate milk with alcohol. What's not to like?

Opaque black coffee color with a moderate tan head that recedes quickly to just a thin ring but does manage a bit of lacing.
The aroma is dark cocoa with hints of coffee and toasted malt.
The taste begins with a sweet toasted malt, a bit of burnt toast, then a load of dark semisweet chocolate with hints of coffee and cream, then finishes with a lingering roasted bitterness.
The body is light/medium, a bit thin for a stout, fairly low carbonation.
Altogether an enjoyable take on a chocolate stout. I could do this one again.