S1P24 - Beer Review - Milk Stout Nitro

These are the beer notes from the S3E07 Two Old Guys Drinking Beer podcast

Left Hand Brewery

• Longmont, CO - about 25 miles NE of Boulder
• Incorporated September 1993
• Daily brewery tours 
• Tasting room - open 7 days a week 11:00am-9:00pm
• Food truck 7 days a week. Rotates vendors
• First batch of Milk Stout - 1999
• 2011 - Nitro bottles
• 2016 - begins canning
• 2017 - Nitro cans
• Other beers:
• Milk Stout - regular stout
• Good Juju - Light ale with ginger
• Fade to Black Vol. 1 - Stout
• Polestar Pilsner
• Wake Up Dead - Imperial Stout - Regular & Nitro
• Oktoberfest Marzen
• Sawtooth Ale - Regular & Nitro
• Hard Wired Nitro - Porter with coffee
• A Blessing and A Curse - Double IPA 9% ABV
• Let’s Flamingo - No discription
• Flamingo Dreams Nitro - Super smooth & refreshing subtle zing from berry notes with a striking pink color
• Death Before Disco - Porter
• Pixen Pepper Porter
• and others

Milk Stout Nitro

• Style: Sweet Stout
• Color: Black, 47 SRM
• Body: full
• ABV: 6%
• IBU's: 25
• PLATO: 15.5° -  is an empirically derived hydrometer scale to measure density of beer wort
• PKG: 4-pack Cans, 6-pack Bottles, Nitro Keg
• Malt: Pale 2-row, Crystal, Munich, Roasted Barley, Flaked Oats, Flaked Barley and Chocolate
• Hops: Magnum and US Goldings
• Other ingredients: Lactose

SUPER SMOOTH WITH SOFT ROASTINESS AND MOCHA FLAVORS.Taking America Back. Dark & delicious, America’s great milk stout will change your perception about what a stout can be. Pouring hard out of the bottle, Milk Stout Nitro cascades beautifully, building a tight, thick head like hard whipped cream. Milk Stout Nitro is also good to go from the can with widget inside technology, or like a pro in a glass. The aroma is of brown sugar and vanilla cream, with hints of roasted coffee. The pillowy head coats your upper lip and its creaminess entices your palate. Initial roasty, mocha flavors rise up, with slight hop & roast bitterness in the finish. The rest is pure bliss of milk chocolate fullness.

• Their best selling beer
• $11.49 six-pack bottles at Kroger
• Click this link to see a video of the technology behind the nitro can.

The Rating

Well gang, we really liked this beer. I was a little concerned with the "milk" part of the name and the "sweet stout" description. I shouldn't have been. There is no milk taste or sweetness. It is a creamy smooth beer though. The rather long and flowery marketing description is pretty accurate. After a couple of average to bad beers to review, the Two Old Guys are back on track and have a smile on our faces. Dennis and I both rated Milk Stout Nitro a solid four bottle caps out of five. Pour a glass, relax and enjoy this very good beer.

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