Milk Stouts

Stone Xocoveza Mocha Stout returns

Stone Xocoveza Mocha Stout started as a collaboration with AHA Homebrewer Competition Winner, Chris Banker, and Mexican craft brewery Cerveceria Insurgente. Now the instant hit from the Escondido, California based brewery’s collaboration series returns.

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Posted in Highland Brewing, Seasonal Return

Highland Black Watch Double Chocolate Milk Stout is back

Highland Black Watch Double Chocolate Milk Stout, part of the brewery’s Warrior Series celebrating “big beers in small batches,” releases for the second time this November.

Highland Black Watch is a 8% alcohol by volume milk stout, brewed with cacao nibs. The recipe is originally designed by brewery bartender J Unger.

The name pays tribute to Scotland’s historic military regiment known as The Black Watch. With their dark tartan and mission to keep watch over the Highlands, Highland salutes these warriors with a dark mahogany colored brew that pours silky smooth. Black Watch Double Chocolate Milk Stout combines more than 100 pounds of cacao nibs with five malts, roasted barley, and flaked oats to create a rich, high-gravity ale reminiscent of brownie batter and marshmallows with an aromatic nose and a lingering dark chocolate finish.

Highland Black Watch re-launces on draft and in 4-packs at the brewery tasting room on Black Friday, November 25th. Shortly after, a limited release of 4-packs will hit shelves within the brewery’s distribution area.

Taste: If you love milk stouts (and chocolate), this beer is for you. It’s smooth, creamy, and hard to put down. 12 ounces of dessert at a time.

The first release in the Warrior series series was Highland King Macalpin Double IPA.

Style: Milk Stout (w/ Cacao Nibs, Lactose.)
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft.
Release: Late November, 2016

8% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Dogfish Head, Don't Miss This

Dogfish Head Beer For Breakfast (Brewed with pork scrapple) debuts

Dogfish Head Beer for Breakfast, the brewery’s essential breakfast beer, has been released in bottles.

You’ve heard of breakfast beers before. Typically it’s a stout brewed with coffee. Perhaps oats. Maybe even a little milk sugar (lactose). Yeah, Dogfish Head could do that too, but hey- that’s not very off-centered is it? This beer needs that little something extra. Bacon? Orange Juice? Nope. Scrapple.

If you aren’t from the northeast, strap in. Let us explain scrapple. It’s breakfast meat, akin to sausage. Scrapple is pork scraps seasoned with spices and held together with corn meal. The brewery uses Rapa Scrapple. Some of the best you can get. This is just the beginning of what this stout looks like.

Dogfish Head Beer For Breakfast has a long list of ingredients. The most important meal of the day looks like this:

  • Maple syrup from the trees at Northfield Mount Hermon High School (Sam Calagione met his wife there)
  • Barley smoked over applewood
  • Roasted Chicory
  • Lactose (milk sugar)
  • Guatemalan Antigua cold press coffee
  • Scrapple from Rapa’s Scrapple.

Dogfish Head Beer for Breakfast is now available in 12 ounce bottles starting November 7th.

Style: Milk Stout (w/ Coffee, Brown Sugar, Lactose, Maple Syrup, Scrapple)
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft.
Debut (Bottles): November, 2016

7.4% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in The Bruery, Don't Miss This

The Bruery 9 Ladies Dancing, inspired by tiramisu debuts

The Bruery 9 Ladies Dancing is officially the 9th edition of the brewery’s on-going 12 Beers of Christmas.

Back in 2008, the Placentia, California based brewery launched the series with Partridge in a Pear Tree, a Belgian-style strong dark ale. If you try to buy that now, you might spend nearly $1,000 dollars trying to obtain it.

The idea is not only to celebrate Christmas, but also for the beers to be cellared until the completion of the series. Don’t let that stop you from drinking any of them now, though. Life is short.

The Bruery 9 Ladies Dancing is inspired by tiramisu dessert. The base imperial milk stout is brewed with cacao nibs, vanilla and coffee.

Here’s a pick me up for the latest verse in our “Twelve Days of Christmas” series. Inspired by flavors and ingredients found in tiramisu, including ladyfingers, 9 Ladies Dancing mimics the Italian dessert by whipping together flavor combinations and layers of its own. This includes notes of vanilla, chocolate and coffee – clearly the leading ladies in this rich, dessert-like beer.

The Bruery 9 Ladies Dancing will be a 750 milliliter bottle release staring in November, 2016.

Style: Imperial Milk Stout (w/ Vanilla Beans, Cacao Nibs, Coffee.)
Availability: 750ml Bottles, Draft. One-time Release.
Debut: November, 2016

11.3% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Stone Brewing Co., Seasonal Return

Stone Xocoveza Mocha Stout returns

Stone Xocoveza Mocha Stout started as a collaboration with AHA Homebrewer Competition Winner, Chris Banker, and Mexican craft brewery Cerveceria Insurgente. Now the instant hit from the Escondido, California based brewery’s collaboration series returns.

Stone Xocoveza Mocha Stout is built from a milk stout recipe, brewed with chocolate (from ChocoVivo), cinnamon, nutmeg, coffee (from Mostra Coffee) and chilies.

Harmoniously layered with cocoa, Mostra coffee, pasilla peppers, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg and milk sugar, this beer is an insanely delicious take on Mexican hot chocolate. Thanks entirely to you and fan demand, it has gone from being a one-time offering to a yearly tradition too special to skip.

The brewery is now bringing it back as a limited winter seasonal release, with a slightly different moniker – Stone Xocoveza for the Holidays & the New Year. Officially shipping in 12 ounce bottles, and draft.

Style: Milk Stout (w/ Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Coffee, Chocolate, Chilies, Lactose)
Hops: English Challenger, English East Kent Golding

National Distribution: AK, AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA and Puerto Rico
International Distribution: Australia; Alberta and British Columbia, Canada; Hong Kong; Japan; Singapore; Korea; Sweden; and United Kingdom

Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft
Latest Return: October, 2016

6% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Boulevard Brewing, New Releases

Boulevard Tasting Room Milk Stout joins fall pack

Boulevard Tasting Room Milk Stout is a part of the brewery’s Sample Twelve mixed pack this fall.

The series is named for beers found only in Boulevard’s Kansas City Tasting Room. That was, until the brewery started taking a few hand select winners and putting them into the Sample Twelve pack. The mixed box changes seasonally.

Boulevard Tasting Room Milk Stout is brewed with Cara 100, 120 and 300 malt, plus Patagonia Black Pearl. Those malts give the beer strong flavors of chocolate and caramel that compliment the creaminess of the lactose milk sugar addition.

Tasting Room – Milk Stout opens with aromas of bittersweet chocolate, espresso and toffee that transition to flavors of the same. The addition of lactose, a non-fermentable sugar, works with the rolled oats to deliver a creamy, lingering finish.

Boulevard Tasting Room Milk Stout is a 12 ounce bottle offering in the fall Sample Twelve Pack (alongside Rosemary IPA) and in the brewery’s Tasting Room.

Style: Milk Stout
Hops: Bravo, Cascade
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft. Limited.

Debut: August, 2016

5.5% ABV, 12 IBUs

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Triple C Brewing Co

Triple C The Dude Imbibes returns March 5th

Triple C The Dude Imbibes will make a return on March 5th, 2016. if you are a fan of the movie The Big Lebowski, you’ll probably be needing this beer.

A beer suitable for The Dude, The Dude Imbibes is an imperial milk stout, aged in rum barrels and coffee beans.

Man that rug really tied the room together. We call thls Imperial Milk Stout, The Dude or Hls Dudeness, and maybe sometimes. Butler. Its entirely aged in Rum Barrels for 6 months, and then aged on whole coffee beans, you could even call It El Duderino, if you’re not into the whole brevity thing. Shut up Donny.

Triple C The Dude Imbibes will be available in 22oz bottles.

Style: Imperial Milk Stout (w/ Coffee. Barrel Aged. Rum)
Availability: 22oz Bottles
Return: 3/5/16

9.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Bronx Brewery, New Releases

Bronx Uptown Milk Stout joins B-Sides Series

Bronx Uptown Milk Stout joins the brewery’s B-Sides lineup this month. Interestingly, this is the first time the brewery has released a stout.

The Bronx, New York based brewery makes their living on Bronx Pale Ale, an English pale ale meets American hops hybrid. Since it is finally cold this winter, it’s time for the brewery to go dark.

Bronx Uptown Milk Stout features small-batch roasted Ethiopian coffee from the brewery’s next door neighbor, Uptown Coffee Roasters. In additional to the lactose milk sugar for creaminess, the brewery adds caramel and chocolate malt. Bronx tells Beer Street Journal the finish is “a rich, full bodied stout that delivers a dark roasted and chocolate taste that would make any coffee drinker smile.”

Bronx Uptown Milk Stout is available on draft only, where Bronx is sold.

Style: Milk Stout (w/ Lactose, Coffee)
Hops: Willamette
Malts: Briess 2-row malt , Briess 2-row chocolate malt, Briess BlackPrinz malt, Briess Roasted Barley, Briess 80L Caramel

Availability: Draft only
Release: Mid-January, 2016

6.8% ABV, 36 IBUs

Image provided to Beer Street Journal by Bronx Brewery

by Reid Ramsay