Left Hand Milk Stout - Left Hand Brewing Company

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3,481 Ratings

rAvg: 3.97
pDev: 12.85%
Reviews: 1488
Hads: 1993

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Left Hand Brewing Company

Colorado, United States

Style | ABV
Milk / Sweet Stout | 6.00% ABV

Availability: Rotating. bottle (1139), nitro-bottle (135), on-tap (127), nitro-tap (79), growler (5), cask (3).

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spitInTheOcean

Michigan

4.5/5 rDev +13.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

looks black. opaque. ruby highlights. brown moussy head.

smells like roasted malts. also smells sweet and creamy. smells like all things roasted, dark chocolate, coffee. no hop aroma.no booze aroma. just a rich, layered, complex malt aroma. very nice. fair retention. fair lacing. its like the lacing is still there, but its too thick and clumpy to stick to the side of the glass and gravity is just pulling it down.

bitter upfront from roasted grains. complex malt flavor. sweetness from malts comes through briefly in the middle and soon gives way to bitter roasted malt finish. tastes of malts, chocolate, and coffee. no hop flavor. no hop bitterness. no booze flavor. bitterness of roasted malts quite pronounced in finish.

creamy beer coats the tongue. very soft carbonation. very smooth.

this beer is a toast to all things malts. it is very good. finish is rather dry for my tastes, though i wont hold that against this beer.

Serving type: nitro-bottle

04-28-2012 04:55:54 | More by spitInTheOcean

More User Reviews:

BDF2000

Virginia

4.5/5 rDev +13.4%

06-19-2013 17:16:34 | More by BDF2000

mmink27

Florida

3.75/5 rDev -5.5%

06-19-2013 17:08:16 | More by mmink27

scotorum

Massachusetts

4.14/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25

As a lefty myself, I like this brewery's name, and I love the hands-on-cow graphic on the label.

Poured into a tulip glass from the 12 oz. bottle.

a. As black as a stout ever gets. The thick inch plus tan head shrank slowly to a dense surface foam film with loads of lacing. The head on this sucker is outstanding. Looking good!

s: Dark malty goodness!

t: Stout leaning to porter. Not as strictly malty as I like my stouts to be, but so many stouts today seem to have that roasty hop porterness. I really enjoy a good porter, but if I want a low hop stout like I was hoping this would be, I want to taste the malt!

m: Smooth for a porter, not as velvety as a really good stout can be. I'm thinking of my local brewer just down the road, who makes a great milk stout that is my personal gold - er dark brown standard.

o: Similar in taste to the Avery Out of Bounds Stout I had and reviewed recently, but a little more stoutly. And more carbonation. I'd take this one over Avery's, although at least in my area Avery's price point deserves the A it gives itself on their labeling. $1.25 is always better than $2 if you are the buyer, especially if you are part Scottish.

Serving type: bottle

06-19-2013 06:18:40 | More by scotorum