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What exactly is a double milk stout? I tried, vaguely, to figure that out. The fact is, I read the can. And no, it doesn't say. At 10.5% ABV, it's not double the 6.0% of the original milk stout. I may never know what has been doubled. I can tell you that I bought another multi-pack, and I bought it for this beer alone. There are three other beers I'll be reviewing, but they are incidental to this beer, so I hope this was worth it.
I would have thought this would look similar to the regular milk stout, but it has pretty much no head. A few meager bubbles make an attempt to produce some kind of head, but this produces bubbles at a rate similar to a barrel aged beer. The black beer holds bits. I am reliably told that these are motes of yeast, and they are coalescing at the bottom of the glass. The aroma is chocolate, vanilla, and some concerning coffee.
First sip is dry. It has a certainly something to it that reminds me of the Holy Mole Milk Stout with the peppers added to it, but this is without the peppers. The chocolate is here, but it's not running things, and without the peppers, I don't know who actually is. I took an uncustomary second sip, and it still gives me that odd sensation. This is a milk stout. They are often called sweet stouts, but there's nothing particularly sweet about this. The coffee seems to add to the bitterness, and the result is all washed out.
Tip-in is thin chocolate syrup with no carbonation and a fringe of vanilla. Coffee seeps in quickly as the middle picks up with shockingly smooth brown sugar and vanilla in a (now even thinner) chocolate. The finish is a little less coffee and a little more brown sugar before the coffee echoes a bit more in the trail off with the chocolate close at hand.
Bottom Line: Not better than the original, but a good enough cover band.
4.0/5
