Milk & Cookies - Bourbon Barrel-Aged
Wicked Weed Brewing

Milk & Cookies - Bourbon Barrel-AgedMilk & Cookies - Bourbon Barrel-Aged
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From:
Wicked Weed Brewing
 
North Carolina, United States
Style:
Sweet / Milk Stout
Ranked #105
ABV:
11.3%
Score:
93
Ranked #3,265
Avg:
4.21 | pDev: 6.18%
Reviews:
25
Ratings:
111
Status:
Active
Rated:
Dec 18, 2023
Added:
Oct 19, 2016
Wants:
  11
Gots:
  10
Crafting the ultimate comfort beer was a winter challenge we happily embraced. Our Milk and Cookies Stout is a cold weather classic, and this version cranks up the comfort through barrel aging. We entrusted our Imperial Milk Stout with Golden raisins, cinnamon, and vanilla into the warming embrace of Kentucky Bourbon barrels to carry us home for the holidays.
Relax. Drink up. You’re home.
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Ratings by dsshuck:
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Rated by dsshuck from Delaware

4.24/5  rDev +0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

Dec 11, 2018
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Reviewed by jzeilinger from Pennsylvania

4.02/5  rDev -4.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A - Borderline black pour with dense caramel lacing and nice viscosity on the sides of the glass.

S - Cookies and cream, sweet chocolate malt, fudge, and fudge brownie.

T - Follows the nose with fudge brownies, chocolate cream, fudge, and some underlying Bourbon.

M - Full body, silky soft, and minimal alcohol warming.

O - Tastes like liquid cookies.
Dec 18, 2023
 
Rated: 4.1 by Jstarr2517 from Connecticut

Nov 04, 2023
 
Rated: 4.19 by JohnofUpton from Massachusetts

Feb 28, 2023
 
Rated: 4.06 by CollinaTiger from South Carolina

Dec 11, 2022
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Reviewed by John_M from Washington

3.92/5  rDev -6.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
On at tap the brewpub today.

The beer pours the expected blackish brown color with fair head retention and light lacing. On the nose, I get something of a cola aroma, with light chocolate and vanilla. Really not picking up much bourbon. The flavor profile replicates the nose pretty closely in this moderately sweet ba stout. As advertised, it is somewhat reminiscent of milk and cookies, with some light cinnamon as well. Mouthfeel is surprisingly thin considering the abv. Alcohol is pretty well integrated into the flavor profile, and frankly it's pretty difficult to believe the abv. is 11.6%. As others have noted, there's really not a lot of barrel age character in this beer.

Shrug. The high review scores for this beer are puzzling, as this is pretty clearly a light weight, middle of the road ba impy stout. It's not unpleasant, but isn't something I'd likely order again or go out of my way to find.
May 29, 2022
 
Rated: 4.15 by Abe_Froman from Massachusetts

Dec 20, 2021
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Reviewed by brentk56 from North Carolina

4.12/5  rDev -2.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Appearance: Pours fudge brown with a thin beige head that fades to a ringlet; very leggy with dribbles of lace

Smell: Milk chocolate, cinnamon, vanilla and a hint of raisin and Bourbon

Taste: The cinnamon and raisin flavors rise quickly and join the milk chocolate; modest Bourbon and vanilla elements, in the middle with a balanced finish

Mouthfeel: Medium to full body with moderate carbonation

Overall: A nice sweet stout that could have benefited from a stronger Bourbon profile
Feb 20, 2021
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Reviewed by clayrock81 from Florida

4/5  rDev -5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Poured a dark brown, almost black body, with good khaki head and some lace left down the glass. Same sugary cookie smell as its predecessor but not much in terms of wood or booze that I was expecting. The beer is a tad boozy but doesn't detract from the woody smoothness and still has that lactic and sugar cookie and chocolate sweetness I remember from the original. Not bad but the bourbon barrels don't really add anything extra to original beer other than some boozy heat at times.
Feb 11, 2021
 
Rated: 4 by sd123 from Georgia

Dec 17, 2020
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Reviewed by stortore from Illinois

4.16/5  rDev -1.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
375 ml bottle into a snifter. Bottled 8/26/19, had 9/24/20.

Pours an opaque dark brown, with a half inch foamy head and foamy lacing. Aromas of bourbon, cinnamon, chocolate, vanilla, malt, some oak, light char, light raisins. The flavor starts with the cinnamon and vanilla, then malt, oak, some chocolate and cocoa, bourbon as it warms, raisins- mostly on the finish, light char. Smooth, a good full body on the thinner side, appropriately carbonated.

The raisins don’t stand out enough to make this resemble a cookie, but otherwise, this is pretty well balanced. The cinnamon and vanilla star, the barrels are solid. A little thinner than expected, but not bad. Very enjoyable.
Oct 06, 2020
 
Rated: 4.35 by JamieDuncan from Maryland

Jul 16, 2020
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Reviewed by EnderFett11 from Virginia

4.5/5  rDev +6.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Poured moderately hard from a bottle into a snifter glass, forming a finger+ of brown head, soon fading to a heavy ring of lacing. Deep black-brown color. Smell is awesome, bourbon and a little sweet cookie. Taste follows the smell, with bourbon forward followed by sweet milk stout, cookie, chocolate, and a hint of cinnamon (I think). Not too sweet at all. Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Even better than the regular Milk and Cookies, and one of the best sweet bourbon aged stouts.
May 25, 2020
 
Rated: 4.21 by Unclevince from West Virginia

May 16, 2020
 
Rated: 4.31 by jimmybram from North Carolina

Apr 25, 2020
 
Rated: 4.59 by BeerMePlz93 from Colorado

Feb 23, 2020
 
Rated: 3.71 by CPE1704TKS from Florida

Dec 30, 2019
 
Rated: 4.25 by dannycohen62 from Illinois

Dec 29, 2019
 
Rated: 4.07 by Richter525 from Michigan

Dec 26, 2019
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Reviewed by Ale_Lover from Georgia

3.68/5  rDev -12.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Appearance - Pours dark thick black with thin tan head and little lacing.

Aroma - Sweet cinnamon, vanilla, oak and of course bourbon.

Taste - Bourbon forward, followed by vanilla, and then light raisin and cinnamon maybe a hint of oak.

Feel - Heavy to medium body with medium carbonation .

Overall - A little heavy, but overall I like it.
Nov 30, 2019
Milk & Cookies - Bourbon Barrel-Aged from Wicked Weed Brewing
Beer rating: 93 out of 100 with 111 ratings