Milk Route Stout
Austin Brothers Beer Co.

12oz can, adhesive label. Stamp on bottom is '08-14-2025 PACKAGED'.
Dark brown colored body. One finger of light tan colored head, and this turns into islands and a full ring. No lacing.
Aroma of toasted caramel malts, chocolate, and coffee.
Taste is sweet, with a bit of sour. Flavors are chocolate, caramel, coffee, and cream. Creamy chocolate and caramel in the aftertaste.
Slightly thin mouthfeel. Metallic or licorice note. Low bitterness. Okay carbonation.
Overall sweet and fits for style, but a little thin.

 

This was surprisingly good for a low ABV stout, they used the lactose like they knew what they were doing and the balance of flavors was coffee just over the chocolate and virtually no bitterness at all. I could drink a 6 pack of these in an evening i think, and enjoy them.

Look: Chocolate brown with ruby highlights at the bottom of the glass. Slightly more than a finger of tan nitro head.

Smell: Savory roast malt with a slight sour note.

Taste: Diluted roast malt mixed with an odd milky taste. Doesn’t really go together well.

Mouthfeel: Creamy smooth with mild carbonation.

Overall: A nitro tap can’t make up for an odd smell and flavor.

Very smooth sweet taste

 

 

A solidly yummy stout.

 

 

Taste: complex, roasted, darkest chocolate, maltose, milky lactose, with a hint of coffee and dry finish. Same with the nose. Black/brown hue, opaque, tan foam head some lace. Medium to med/full body. Balanced and chopped full of flavor. 31 IBUs

 

 

 

 

 

12 ounce bottle into pint glass, bottled on 8/17/2017. Pours crystal clear very dark brown color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Light spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of milk chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, nuttiness, vanilla, cream, and toasted dark bread; with light notes of smoke, dark fruit, herbal, and roast/toasted earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, lactose, and light earthy hop notes; with solid strength. Taste of milk chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, nuttiness, vanilla, cream, and toasted dark bread; with light notes of smoke, dark fruit, herbal, and roast/toasted earthiness. Mild herbal hop and roast malt bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of milk chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, nuttiness, vanilla, cream, toasted dark bread, light smoke/herbal, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, lactose, and light earthy hop flavors; with a great roast/hop bitter/sweet balance, and zero cloying/acrid flavors after the finish. Slightly increasing dryness from hop/roast bitterness. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, and slightly sticky/chalky mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.4%. Overall this is a very nice milk stout. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt, lactose, and light earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the mildly bitter finish. Well rounded stout malt complexity, nice lactose sugar presence, and mild balancing hops against sweetness. A very enjoyable offering, and textbook style example.