Gunner's Daughter
Mast Landing Brewing Company

16oz can received as a gift from a friend. Just before receiving this, I purchased a single of it for $3.99. I'm drinking and the one that I received from my friend first though, because it is much fresher. Canned on 5/3/2021, so this is almost 2 1/2 months old.

Look: Pours a deep brown verging on black color, with an apparently medium body. A chocolate milk colored head slowly recedes, leaving behind a thin cling to the rim of the glass.

Smell: Initially, I get a huge hazelnut note that is truly awesome. It also smells like hot cocoa mix, which is awesome. Faint coffee notes as well, with a mild roasty bitterness on the finish. Peanut butter on the finish also. Honestly, this smells so good I just want to keep smelling it, dream about making ice cream with it, etc.

Taste: Mmmm. This is so good. If chocolate milk could be a beer, it would be Gunner's Daughter. Or if a Reese's peanut butter cup could be a beer, it would be Gunner's Daugher. This is so smooth and so balanced and delicious. The sweetness is actually toned down for a milk stout, and yet I am glad that it is what it is because the other elements show their voice and are balanced so well. Up front, a nice dark cocoa flavor with some hazelnut and peanut butter vibes.
On the finish, there is almost no bitterness, just a nice roasty, nutty, mildly coffee-flavored finish. What is most surprising to me about this beer is that it is so drinkable. It does not taste heavy or cloyingly sweet at all.

Feel: The mouthfeel is really nice. It's medium bodied - not thick, but it is super silky and smooth. The mouthfeel is so smooth, it almost tastes like a nitro beer.

Overall: This is my first Mast Landing beer. This beer truly lives up to its hype. For a 5.5% ABV milk stout, it is very impactful and I love that it is just barely sweet. I would believe you if you told me that this was an American Stout and that there was no lactose in this beer. Hands down, this is the best milk stout that I have ever had and perhaps will ever have. It may also be the best low ABV stout that I have had or will ever have. My one criticism about this beer is that it is a "Stout brewed with natural flavors". Who knows what natural flavors they use to make this? On the other hand, who cares? It's so good!

Oh my this is a good one. Pours dark with a fantastic fluffy head. Aroma is very unique and amazing. Chocolate and peanut butter. Has a great chocolate flavor. Reminds me of Boulder Brewing nitro Shake. So good. Creamy texture, perfect carbonation. Overall, wow, what a great beer. Wish they had distro in NJ

4/28/26
16 oz can dates 2/2/26
4.75 rating

 

 

The pour that emptied the entire contents of a pint can into a clear glass liter mug was ideal. A proper short-lived head of lovely tan color was produced. The liquid beneath is black coffee brown. An interesting aroma, sweet with roasted malt, milk chocolate and peanut butter emits. All those sensations for the nose are in the taste and in pleasant balance. The amazing peanut butter flavor becomes a distraction. Not in a negative way, because it's tastefully included. But, it's so good, question arises, how did this happen without any nuts being involved in the brewing? Is this accurate artificial flavoring, or some amazing alchemy using just hops, malt and lactose? Nine out of ten moms would swear there's real peanut butter included. Although balanced, just like the real thing, the peanut butter eventually becomes the dominant flavor. Many will have no problem with that. The finish is nicely bittered by the roasted malts. The mouthfeel is a little light, but just right for the tastes it delivers. Maybe its just unexpected that something with peanut butter flavor isn't thick and sticky. There's no glass lacing, but little time between the pour and the conclusion to worry about that. This is a delightful brew and if it was done naturally, an amazing one.

 

Pours opaque dark brown, with only the faintest hints of color around the limb when held up to the light. Foam is ample and latte colored, dissipating slowly. Smell is roast coffee and peanut butter, with the peanut butter becoming more prominent as it warms. Flavor starts with . The flavor starts with malt and a hint of chocolate and peanut butter, joined quickly by cream. Aftertaste is dominated by the coffee flavor and smooth bitterness of roasted malt. Body is light, for a stout, but fairly creamy from the lactose and a bit of carbonation. Overall, this is a tasty milk stout with a little more complexity than is typical for the style.

Best milk stout I've had to date. Period. CHEERS!

Nitro

A: opaque; very dark brown - almost black; a 1 finger creamy tan head that receded to a skim cap with a thick tight collar; nice lacing;

S: peanut butter;

T: balanced between peanut butter and dark chocolate through the middle; coffee comes in toward the end and is dominant in the aftertaste; mild to moderate bitterness on the finish;

M: medium bodied; moderate, creamy carbonation; moderately dry finish;

O: nice balance of flavors;

 

 

Gunner's Daughter

Mast Landing Brewing Co.

Stout - Milk / Sweet

This is an easy drinking, complex, and light bodied feeling Milk stout. Light chocolate, nutty, graham cracker, and cream flavors. The feel, once again, is very light but also creamy. The light and rather watery body lends itself to easy drinking.

3.70

16oz can. Poured out an opaque, jet-black color with a good-sized, khaki-colored head of foam. It left sudsy lacing. It smelled of milk chocolate, toffee, caramel and cream. Sweet chocolate taste with roasted malt and sweet toffee.

yummy :) tastes good. enjoyed it. ty beer boyfriend for picking it out for me

Poured from tap at a bar, stole a few sips from my boyfriend. Not a big stout guy but this is very light and drinkable. Sweetened cold brew energy. I'm a fan.

This stuff is fantastic. Sweet, creamy, nice lacing and mouth feel. Oddly light and crushable. Wasn't expecting that.

16oz can. Bottom stamp is 'BATCH 394 CANNED ON 02/17/25 11:23'.
Black colored body, with a red mahogany colored back lit edge. One thick finger of tan head. Later this is a minor island and thin ring. Leaves behind a few small spots of lacing.
Aroma of peanut, chocolate, and hints of coffee and vanilla.
Taste follows the nose with flavors of sweet dark roasted malts, peanut, chocolate, and hints of coffee and vanilla. Aftertaste extends all but the chocolate comes to the fore.
Medium mouthfeel. Soft and creamy texture. Bitterness from the coffee but more than balanced by the overall sweetness. Good carbonation.
Sweet and gentle brew, with a good flavor profile.

 

On nitro draught in a pint glass. A rich dark beer with a nice head initially. The lacing dissipates into a foam ring that lingers for a while.
The nose and initial flavors are of hazelnut, peanut butter, malty and sweetened creamy coffee. There are some buttery and molasses notes as well that dissipate and reveal a little tang and dryness at the end.