Drakes Chocolate Milk Stout

Brewed by Drakes Brewing Company
Style: Sweet Stout
San Leandro, California USA

Huge tan-greige head, rather fast gone over black beer with a little red lining; Chocolate, coffee, capuccino, and a bit lactic sourness. Cacao, roasted grains, bit of coffee, which builds up and keeps haning around long, despite the sweet lactose. Quite full bodied, slick. A bit fit-into-the-mold, but certainly not bad.
Thanks to brewer Rodger D. for supplying me the series!

On tap at brewery. Pours a deep black color. Small sized white foamy head. Aroma is chocolate and coffee and slightly sweet. A medium bodied sweet stout. Malts are roasty, chocolate and coffee. Touch of vanilla. This stout is mostly roasty malts and semi sweet chocolate flavors. Mouthfeel is full. Finish is clean and crisp. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

Bottle. Black beer with a thin cocoa colored head. Chocolate roasty aroma - lots of chocolate with just a it of sweetness. Sweet malt and chocolate flavor with some underlying roastiness and lactic. Coffee as well. Thinner body than expected makes this really easy to drink. Lactic notes more present as you continue. Would like it more if it has just a bit more body, but it’s well done. Lingering lactic/chocolate. Thanks for the bottle, Mike.

(Nitro draft: O’Brien’s in San Diego, CA) Chocolate milk? Yeah, I guess, a little, but it’s certainly not Yoohoo! The nose is quite dry, roasty and chocolaty, less sweet than I was expecting. Moderate chocolate up front is in nice sync with the roastiness. Roast is most prevalent in the long-lasting and fairly bitter finish. The flavor is sweeter than the nose indicates, but still fairly mild compared to the other flavors. It has a rich, creamy, sikly palate, but body is only medium to me. The color is almost totally black, but with dark, ruddy edges. Lots of subsurface bubbles cling to the glass. A large, dense head is tan color of coffee ice cream, and a thick, dense blanket of head (too bulky to be called lace) lines the glass. I enjoyed this one enough to order a second! I’d have a third, but Drake’s Denogginizer is also on tap, so I can’t resist its call any longer.

Sample @ Ob’rien’s: Pours with a black body topped by a thin head with som lacing. The aroma and flavor are sweet and malty with a roasty note and chocolate and cream notes. Full bodied, smooth and a touch dry.

Nitro paints a nitro appearance and of course, at least when appearances are concerned, you cannot really complain...although, i must say that it was extra jiggly..seeming to be a little watery if I do say so my damn self. The head was reminscent of chocolate skim milk..the aroma, roasty with defined chocolate and coffee notes. Nitro-flat mouthfeel with chocolate milk flavors and roasty-ness. More dry than sweet, really..in fact, not much sweetness at all and adequately hopped which brings the bitterness out strong in the end. Its ok, but I certainly won’t be ordering it again.

This dark brown ale poured with a nice tan head. The flavor is seriously chocolate with a very malty finish. Recommended only for chocolate lovers.

Courtesy SoLan by way of aspidites. Pours dark brown/black with a monster, foamy light brown head. Good doses of chocolate syrup, with some dark fruit, and a little tartness in there as well. The flavor was very creamy, lots of chocolate cream and vanilla mixed together. A little tartness in the finish which might be a sign of age, but I think this has held up quite nicely. Very creamy nd smooth going down, with some nice flavor in there. A nice little treat.