New Holland Dragons Milk

Brewed by New Holland Brewing Company
Style: Stout
Holland, Michigan USA

Acquired in trade with iwantalambic. Poured a dark brownish color with an averaged sized off white head. Aromas of oak wood, smoke and coffee. Tastes of vanilla, light bourbon, and chocolate. Alcohol content well hidden. Call me a sucker for barrel aged beers, but I liked this one.

Dark brown body wears a light off-white ring. Bold cakey smell in which you’d have put a pinch too much salt. Original lactic chocolate maltiness, rather complex in the nose, hard to analyze and know what to do with it. Raw grainy dryness chases the potentially fatiguing sweetness. Somehow a powdery cocoa flavor lingers and evolves into a coffeeish highly roasty ending full of dark malts. Smooth round body with soft carbonation. Well contained oak flavors do not attenuate the flavors, not to speak of the totally dismissed alcohol. Worth seeking just because it’s so unique.

(Bottle) Pours a black body with burgundy edges and small beige head. Aroma of vinous, chocolate, light roastiness, milk , and licorice. Flavor of chocolate, lactos, and light roastiness.

Pours a nearly opaque rich brown with very little head. Sour molten chocolate aroma. Tart medium body saturated with bourbon oak and finishing with a puckering sourness and some milk chocolate. Good complexity and not much noticeable alcohol, but a little difficult to drink. Don't know if this sourness is supposed to be there, this could've gone bad.

Bottle... This beer rocks! Very dark ale with a small, creamy, khaki head. Minimal lacing. Milk chocolate, oak and red wine aromas. The high ABV is very well-masked by rich, malt flavors with traces of oak and vanilla. Nicely hopped. Full-bodied and astringent with lively carbonation. Lengthy, tangy, dry finish. This beer is world class and a bit underrated IMO.

on tap @Philly BeerFest III–pours a light brown head and mahogany color. Aroma is bourbon, sweet medium malt. Taste is bourbon, sweet medium malt-brown sugar. Again taste not up to aroma.

Yellow-brown head, shortlived, over black looking beer with a lot of reddish, Cola-like highlights. Chocolate, fresh green leaves, finishing in absolute moccha/coffee; with very clearly alcohol, brandy-like, and even some higher alcohols, giving a quite complex, pleasing nose. Sweet taste with sweet chocolate flavour; rather roasted than burnt notes, a touch of fruity acidity (very restrained), and going over in rich coffee (with some coffeecream). sweet, however dominates leaving very little bitterness, and that not particulary hoppy. Retronasal some tobacco. Well bodied, smooth, grist and unfermented sugars - which is very strange seen the beer came from 19°Plato to 9A% ABV. Pleasing sweet stout (enfin... IMO), thanks to my America travelling wife.

Bottled. Hazy dark brown coloured. Buttery cocoa aroma with cheesy notes. Sweet buttery cocoa and chocolate flavour. Notes of bourbon. Rather unclean. Light to medium body.