Lambda - Coffee
Ethereal Brewing

The happy accident that just stuck is perfectly content in its chocolate malt mistakes. Needing no correction, addition or modifications, the milk stout is perfect just the way it is. ...until coffee happens.

Expectedly dark, reasonably black and crowned with a creamy blanket of mocha whipped froth, Coffee Lambda wins over the nose with a mocha latte scent of caramel, cream, chocolate and coffee. Projected sweetness brings those caramel, cream, chocolate and nearly sorghum-like maltiness for an initial creaminess of sweetened condensed milk.

With the malt sweetness slowly and deliberately receding, the bold flavors of dark roast coffee and its earthy, toasty, roasty glory teams up with similar flavors in bittersweet chocolate. Milk sugars and a mild vanilla character work to balance the late palate as the caramel and toffee continue to fall away. A mild woodsy bitterness from hops easily disguises as the more bitter qualities of both coffee and chocolate to sell its mocha character well.

A kahlua smooth spiciness accompanies the full bodied beer's textures and its bitter, roasty and robust characteristics that trail into a long and roasty-sweet finish. It's the beer that Lambda had always wanted to be, and it didn't even know it.