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Milk Stout
Lake Louie Brewery Company
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- From:
- Lake Louie Brewery Company
- Wisconsin, United States
- Style:
- Sweet / Milk Stout
Ranked #469 - ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 86
Ranked #19,017 - Avg:
- 3.82 | pDev: 11.26%
- Reviews:
- 78
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 19, 2023
- Added:
- Jan 02, 2003
- Wants:
- 10
- Gots:
- 8
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Reviewed by jwc215 from Arizona
3.81/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.81/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours pitch black with a tan head. Plenty of lacing sticks.
The smell is of chocolate with a hint of milk and roast.
The taste is of bittersweet chocolate, lactose/milk with a subtle hint of coffee in the finish.
It is creamy smooth.
A nice, easy-drinking smooth milk stout.
Mar 01, 2015The smell is of chocolate with a hint of milk and roast.
The taste is of bittersweet chocolate, lactose/milk with a subtle hint of coffee in the finish.
It is creamy smooth.
A nice, easy-drinking smooth milk stout.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Colorado
2.6/5 rDev -31.9%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
2.6/5 rDev -31.9%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
BOTTLE: 12 fl oz brown glass. Unbranded pry-off pressure cap. Generally appealing label art. Huge thanks to Duff27 for sending this in a trade.
Served cold into a goblet and allowed to warm over the course of consumption. Expectations are above average.
No bubble show forms as it's poured.
HEAD: Half finger wide. Retention is quite poor - maybe 10 seconds. Leaves no lacing as it recedes.
BODY: It's an inappropriate cola black - very schwarzbier-esque. Not the opaque solid black it should be.
It doesn't look very good for a milk stout, but I'm optimistic. Appears adequately carbonated.
AROMA: Dark malts, chocolate malts, lactose sugar, schwarz malts.
No yeast character, alcohol, or off-notes are detectable.
Overall, it lacks the robust malt backbone it should have, and could do with some vanilla or something to set off the chocolate.
It's a pleasant aroma of average strength, but doesn't impress as a milk stout aroma.
TASTE: Has a schwarz malt backbone - not the dark malt and chocolate malt backbone it should. Generic notes of lactose sugar lend little of interest, and it's not quite cream-forward enough. There's no roasted barley, and it's just not robust enough. Balanced enough, I suppose. There's not much here in terms of intricacy/complexity or subtlety, but I do like it for what it is. Average depth, duration, and intensity of flavour.
TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, weak, a bit thin, and medium-bodied. Well-carbonated. More heft and weight on the plate would better accentuate the milk sugar. This texture fails to elevate the beer, but it suits the taste decently I suppose.
Not oily, gushed, hot, boozy, astringent, harsh, gushed, or rough.
OVERALL: Drinkable but ultimately quite generically built and dull for a milk stout. I can't say I'd buy it again myself, and the weak texture really holds it back. A middle-of-the-road milk stout that can't compete with superior and more widely available offerings in the style like Left Hand Milk Stout. I wouldn't recommend it to friends.
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Feb 21, 2015Served cold into a goblet and allowed to warm over the course of consumption. Expectations are above average.
No bubble show forms as it's poured.
HEAD: Half finger wide. Retention is quite poor - maybe 10 seconds. Leaves no lacing as it recedes.
BODY: It's an inappropriate cola black - very schwarzbier-esque. Not the opaque solid black it should be.
It doesn't look very good for a milk stout, but I'm optimistic. Appears adequately carbonated.
AROMA: Dark malts, chocolate malts, lactose sugar, schwarz malts.
No yeast character, alcohol, or off-notes are detectable.
Overall, it lacks the robust malt backbone it should have, and could do with some vanilla or something to set off the chocolate.
It's a pleasant aroma of average strength, but doesn't impress as a milk stout aroma.
TASTE: Has a schwarz malt backbone - not the dark malt and chocolate malt backbone it should. Generic notes of lactose sugar lend little of interest, and it's not quite cream-forward enough. There's no roasted barley, and it's just not robust enough. Balanced enough, I suppose. There's not much here in terms of intricacy/complexity or subtlety, but I do like it for what it is. Average depth, duration, and intensity of flavour.
TEXTURE: Smooth, wet, weak, a bit thin, and medium-bodied. Well-carbonated. More heft and weight on the plate would better accentuate the milk sugar. This texture fails to elevate the beer, but it suits the taste decently I suppose.
Not oily, gushed, hot, boozy, astringent, harsh, gushed, or rough.
OVERALL: Drinkable but ultimately quite generically built and dull for a milk stout. I can't say I'd buy it again myself, and the weak texture really holds it back. A middle-of-the-road milk stout that can't compete with superior and more widely available offerings in the style like Left Hand Milk Stout. I wouldn't recommend it to friends.
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Reviewed by TheSSG from Illinois
3.41/5 rDev -10.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.41/5 rDev -10.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours a soapy, tan head that collapses into a soft puff of head. Really excellent head retention. Toasted malt aroma. Black. Starts with a REALLY robust toasted malt flavor. Notes of citrus hop bitterness come through. There is an underlying sweetness throughout here, just off in the back.
This isn't too bad. Pretty much a solid stout with a creamy mouthfeel and a touch of sweetness way in the back.
Feb 18, 2015This isn't too bad. Pretty much a solid stout with a creamy mouthfeel and a touch of sweetness way in the back.
Milk Stout from Lake Louie Brewery Company
Beer rating:
86 out of
100 with
129 ratings
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