Milk Stout
Portsmouth Brewery
- From:
- Portsmouth Brewery
- New Hampshire, United States
- Style:
- Sweet / Milk Stout
- ABV:
- 5.25%
- Score:
- 89
- Avg:
- 4 | pDev: 9.5%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 57
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 13, 2016
- Added:
- Feb 15, 2006
- Wants:
- 26
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
89
Very Good
89
Very Good
Medium-bodied and black in color, this unique stout is brewed with thirty pounds of lactose, an unfermentable milk sugar that imparts a very smooth, roasty character in this “sweet” stout.
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Ratings by Kaiser81:
Reviewed by Kaiser81 from California
3.73/5 rDev -6.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.73/5 rDev -6.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Generous extra by 6daysbottomocean
22 oz bomber poured into my snifter glass
A - Super dark brown with very minimal head. Nice lacing left on my glass.
S - Sweet smelling. Condensed milk, maybe, along with mlik chocolate, butter, toffee, maybe buttered popcorn. I'd be concerned with diacytel on this, but it's a milk stout...so I think it's correct. We'll see what happens in the taste.
T - Taste is of condensed milk, butter, toffee, and milk chocolate. There's some minimal roast from the malt, but not a whole lot. The milk qualities definitely dominate. it's kind of almost too sweet for a stout.
M - Fairly medium body with minimal carbonation. A sweet finish left after each sip.
D - It's good. I kind of wish I had a few others to split this with though.
Sep 05, 201022 oz bomber poured into my snifter glass
A - Super dark brown with very minimal head. Nice lacing left on my glass.
S - Sweet smelling. Condensed milk, maybe, along with mlik chocolate, butter, toffee, maybe buttered popcorn. I'd be concerned with diacytel on this, but it's a milk stout...so I think it's correct. We'll see what happens in the taste.
T - Taste is of condensed milk, butter, toffee, and milk chocolate. There's some minimal roast from the malt, but not a whole lot. The milk qualities definitely dominate. it's kind of almost too sweet for a stout.
M - Fairly medium body with minimal carbonation. A sweet finish left after each sip.
D - It's good. I kind of wish I had a few others to split this with though.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by brentk56 from North Carolina
3.75/5 rDev -6.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev -6.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Appearance: Pours a fudge brown color with ruby highlights; the modest cap leaves a few squiggles of lace
Smell: Milk chocolate and tart cherry
Taste: Milk chocolate, up front, with the tart cherry flavors taking over in the mid-palate; chocolate-covered tart cherries linger into the finish
Mouthfeel: Medium body with moderate carbonation
Overall: This bottle has a few years of age and the lactose has become lactic; I understand that was not the original intent but I kind of like it
Jan 02, 2014Smell: Milk chocolate and tart cherry
Taste: Milk chocolate, up front, with the tart cherry flavors taking over in the mid-palate; chocolate-covered tart cherries linger into the finish
Mouthfeel: Medium body with moderate carbonation
Overall: This bottle has a few years of age and the lactose has become lactic; I understand that was not the original intent but I kind of like it
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