Chocolate Milk Stout
Blackstone Brewing Company

12 oz bottle, best by 7/21/20, into Dogfish Head nonic pint.

Shiny black body with a fingernail of brown head.

Aroma is oreo cookie, chocolate milk, coffee, and caramel latte.

Flavor is earth, lactose, mineral, and oreo crumbs...finishing with milk, vanilla, and earth. Mild herbal hops.

Feel is slick and creamy, with mild alcohol heat, mild carbonation, and a roasty finish.

Overall, a fair chocolate milk stout. I like the fact that it retains some chocolate oreo flavors, but it is kinda weird too. Not sure I'd come back around to this one.

Price paid : $1.89 / bottle
Would buy again : probably not

 

Pours a black color. 1/4 inch head of a tan color. Decent retention and slight lacing. Smells of strong chocolate, sweet malt, lactose, and slight oatmeal. Fits the style of an English Sweet / Milk Stout. Mouth feel is smooth, creamy, and clean with a low carbonation level. Tastes of chocolate, sweet malt, lactose, hint of oatmeal, hint of piney hops, and slight alcohol. Overall, good blend, simplistic, great feel, but too cloying.

 

From the tap, very dark with a nice head, pretty much what you'd expect. To me, it smelled a bit like a cigar lounge, and not in a good way (you might not notice this if you are a smoker or in a smoking establishment). Ignoring the smell, the taste was chocolate and malt. I read reviews before I ordered and was ready to move to something else if it was too sweet, but it was not excessive, about the right level of sweetness for this style. It was light to medium in body and carbonation, more suitable to drinking than sipping. You could throw one down quickly. I ordered a second pint.

Poured from 12oz bottle into glass. Best Before Date marked on bottle as March of 2018.
Very dark, very slight reddish light transmission through body. Tan cap with islands of cap, minimal lacing.
Strong sweet chocolate and malt aroma.
Sweet chocolate, lactose, and malt taste.
Thin to medium mouthfeel.
A solid and tasty sweet chocolate milk stout. No bitterness and very easy to drink, but quite sweet, somewhat cloying.

 

12 oz bottle from TN.
Look: Black body with a decent size tan head that soon reduces to a ring. Minimal lacing.
Aroma: mild and appealing with chocolate and hints of dark fruits.
The flavor has more chocolate than the aroma suggests. Lightly sweet. This can be called a "chocolate milk stout" or a "milk chocolate stout": either being appropriate.
Feel: very smooth with medium+ body and medium-light carbonation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A - clear dark soba brown. Faint almost nonexistent dark beige head. Almost no carbonation. 3

S - sweet cocoa. Oatmeal cream. Faint pumpernickel toast. A hint of rawhide hops and just a drop of used bandaids. 2.75

T - sweet chocolate chip cookies and cigar smoke. Finished with a bit of teriyaki sauce. 3.5

M - sweet and cool but a bit thin and no carbonation at all. 2.5

D - overall a bit underwhelming. Not terrible but unremarkable. 3