Warmest Wishes
Phase Three Brewing Company
- From:
- Phase Three Brewing Company
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- Sweet / Milk Stout
Ranked #420 - ABV:
- 7.3%
- Score:
- 88
Ranked #19,782 - Avg:
- 3.93 | pDev: 8.4%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 9
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jan 20, 2026
- Added:
- Dec 11, 2019
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
88
Very Good
88
Very Good
Stout brewed with milk sugar and a large amount of oats. Creamy, full-bodied and everything else a stout should be: coffee-like roast, dark baker’s chocolate and subtle caramel flavors all from the malts/grains used.
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Reviewed by Beers-n-Beards
2.5/5 rDev -36.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.5/5 rDev -36.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
An "oatmeal milk stout" that tastes nothing like oatmeal or milk stout, just a trace sweetness. Picked up from a local liquor store based on the above description on the can. Tastes much more like their Instagram description of "big roasty flavors of dark chocolate... and a kiss of velvety sweetness from oats and milk sugar". Tricked by false advertising and not doing my own research beforehand.
Ignoring the fact I don't like the taste and am annoyed they called it an oatmeal milk stout yet clearly stating elsewhere those aren't the primary flavors, the look, smell, and feel are perfectly average.
Dec 11, 2025Ignoring the fact I don't like the taste and am annoyed they called it an oatmeal milk stout yet clearly stating elsewhere those aren't the primary flavors, the look, smell, and feel are perfectly average.
Reviewed by FBarber from Illinois
3.88/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.88/5 rDev -1.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Really nice straightforward milk stout. Chocolatey, some pine, a bit on the hoppy side, but not too bad. Enjoyable, would definitely pick this one up again.
Dec 27, 2022
Reviewed by mschrei from Illinois
4.24/5 rDev +7.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.24/5 rDev +7.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Have had this before, rating it when it was day 2 of 12 Beers of Christmas from Iron & Glass. Not bad, not great. Definite milk sugar, dark roasted malt, and chocolate notes. Medium bodied, alcohol presents like expected by the ABV, clean mouth watering finish.
Dec 27, 2021
Reviewed by jzlyo from Iowa
4.04/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.04/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Aroma is dark/roasted malts, chocolate and oats. The flavor is chocolate, dark/roasted malts, mild dark fruit, oats and a slightly sweet/nutty/acidic finish.
Jan 24, 2021
Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
3.7/5 rDev -5.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.7/5 rDev -5.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
No canning date (released on 12/11/19, so presumably canned within a few days of that date)
Pours an oily black/jet-mahogany body capped with just over a finger of bubbly, dark khaki foam; head fizzles out fairly quickly to no discernible cap, a small, creamy collar, and no lacing along the glass.
Aroma brings roasty malts and earthier tones of dusty wood and acorn to the forefront, followed by a contrasting milky vanilla with a light biscuity backing over the middle as a malty char encroaches on the background and becomes more pronounced on the close.
Taste shows familiar notes of old wood and acorn opening as underlying hints of vanilla build rapidly along the mid-palate; cocoa and roasted malts build and accentuate a growing lactic sweetness on the back end and prevent the profile from becoming entirely cloying.
Mouthfeel shows a medium body with a subtle, low carbonation; an oily and effortlessly slick quality over mid-palate, grows against an evolving, rounded malty char into the back end; a minor roasty acidity cuts any cloyingly sweet textures on the finish in a similar vein to the flavor profile.
Many times this one threatens an obnoxiously lactic and creamy character, though at every instance manages to ride a comfortable line between full-flavored and overbearing; a fine milk stout whose lactic and oat additions ultimately work in its favor to a more robust, silky, and reasonably inviting brew.
Aug 13, 2020Pours an oily black/jet-mahogany body capped with just over a finger of bubbly, dark khaki foam; head fizzles out fairly quickly to no discernible cap, a small, creamy collar, and no lacing along the glass.
Aroma brings roasty malts and earthier tones of dusty wood and acorn to the forefront, followed by a contrasting milky vanilla with a light biscuity backing over the middle as a malty char encroaches on the background and becomes more pronounced on the close.
Taste shows familiar notes of old wood and acorn opening as underlying hints of vanilla build rapidly along the mid-palate; cocoa and roasted malts build and accentuate a growing lactic sweetness on the back end and prevent the profile from becoming entirely cloying.
Mouthfeel shows a medium body with a subtle, low carbonation; an oily and effortlessly slick quality over mid-palate, grows against an evolving, rounded malty char into the back end; a minor roasty acidity cuts any cloyingly sweet textures on the finish in a similar vein to the flavor profile.
Many times this one threatens an obnoxiously lactic and creamy character, though at every instance manages to ride a comfortable line between full-flavored and overbearing; a fine milk stout whose lactic and oat additions ultimately work in its favor to a more robust, silky, and reasonably inviting brew.
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