SKA Steel Toe Stout (Milk Stout)

Brewed by SKA Brewing
Style: Sweet Stout
Durango, Colorado USA

Pours black with a small tan head. Smells like milked coffee with a bit of sugar. Taste is much the same, minus the sugar. A little smoky as well. Finish is a coffee bitterness. Not the best sweet stout, but could be much worse.

Bottle from cbkschubert! Nose is roasty with coffee and chocolate; very dark but transparent brown with a small tan head; flavor was of slightly carbonized caramel with some coffee mixed in giving it a rather smoky tone in a nice medium body.

12 oz bottle-pours a fizzy foamy tan head and black in color. Aroma is milky, chocolate-dark malt with acidic notes. Taste follows aroma. Medium/full body. OK carbonation.

Pours black w/ a shallow semi creamy froth. Aroma of roasted nuts, coffee, and charcoal caramel. Medium nectar w/ mellow residual effers. Flavors are strong as expected but with a predominate burnt sugar/charcoal goin’s on. Aged malt, tobacco, coffee, smoke, leather. Tastes like a steel toed boot. Finish has a moderate bitterness. Overall: I am not fond of this. brew. Every aspect seems to have a burnt this or that.

Pours jet black with a thin off-white head. Hints of soy in the aroma, with smoky malts. In the mouth, it’s sweet up front then slightly smoky with some sourness and hints of cardboard. Maybe I got a bad bottle. It’s pretty watery.

Pours an oily black with just a tiny ring of tan head. Extremely strong roasted malt aroma reminds of an overdone french roast. Thin bodied and incredibly strong in the coffee flavors. Lacking some of the usual sweetness I find in milk stouts. Not what I expected and not what I wanted.

Pours a blackish brown with a thin reddish tan head. The head vanishes rather quickly. Nose is bold roasty malts with a hint of canned seet peas. Flavor is a very basic stout with no pronounced swetness. By far the best beer I’ve had from theese guys, but that’s not saying much.

Pours with a frothy, initially two-finger thick, light brown colored head that is just a tad creamy in consistency. The beer is a rich, almost black, deep brown color that shows quite clear as I pour this beer into the glass. The aroma is nice an roasty; a mix of chocolate and sharp, roasted coffee notes. The aroma really has a roasted, grainy huskiness to it that is more pronounced than I have had in a beer in a while. Typical American exuberance, but it is actually in some ways appealing. A solid biscuit/ toasted malt note accompanies this husky notes, and softens it a bit.

The taste I lightly sweet, but quickly moves to a roasted grain tartness and it finishes with a note that is dominated by the husky grain not found in the nose. Notes of toasted, biscuit-like malt is quite prominent as well. Ample notes of chocolate help to round out the acidity and husky grain astringency. This beer is quite light on the palate, it makes for an easy quaffer and even the husky note does not linger for all that long. This is an enjoyable brew, an easy sipper that is good for a couple pints. While it is a bit out of balance, like most of the other breweries products, It is one of the better beers from them that I have had. For some reason the flavors just work here.

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