SKA Steel Toe Stout (Milk Stout)

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

I’m not sure why this one is rated so low. Pours a dark brown with a bubbly quickly diminishing tan head. Smelled like milky, hot chocolate. Creamy palate with a malty chocolate taste. Nice smooth chocolate finish. This beer is grossly underrated.

Freakin’ Dr. Pep*er! Give it a year. Give it two years. I poured a bottle into a pint glass. *Slurp, slurp* Wiggley piggies. Syrupy milk stout with low, however crisp carbo. My bottle indicates October ’04. Thick enough to completely elude transparency, coffee thick with milk and honey. Might need a couple years.

Dark brown color. Roasted coffee and tobacco on the nose. Some bits of chocolate. Smooth taste. Nice dark chocolate and milk chocolate taste. Finish is lingering sweet chocolate that eases off. Probably the best SKA brew I’ve had yet.

Bottle thanks to Cavie. Pours a dark brown/black, red hues, short lived beige head. Aroma is great, strong coffee, chocolate, dark roast, malty. Flavor is nice, dark roast, faint cream, chocolate. Mouth feel is medium body, medium carbonation, silky feel. Overall, very nice!

The beer belches forth from the 22-ounce brown bottle a soot black with a moderate sized semi-creamy light chocolate head that erodes rather quickly leaving a thick and glutinous sheet of lace to circumnavigate the glass. Nose has a rich milk chocolate and nice roasted grain aroma, sweet and fresh, start is somewhat sweet with a delectable malt presence and the top moderate to full in its feel to the palate. Finish has a determined acidity and the hops purposeful in their spiciness, the aftertaste continues the milk chocolate taste and is quite dry, a decent stout and worthy of a sample.

poured into tulip. pours a dark almost clear ebony with a semi white head. milky vanilla aroma. very smooth and milky. light for a stout but still has the creamy full mouthfeel. cream front of milk with a real fresh coffee expresso finish. very good sessionable stout.

Poured a dark brown with a thin white head. Had strong hints of lactose, simple sugars, and roasted coffee. FInsihed with a slight sugary texture.

Appearance: Pours a deep, dark brown body with some reddish-hued edges and a creamy beige head. Smell: Roasted grains and rich, sweetish chocolate, though by and large, its the roasted malts. Taste: Fairly sweet milk chocolate flavor featuring some distinct Tootsie Roll notes and just the little amount of citrusy hops. Finishes sweet but with a persistent lactic acidity that builds up in the back of the mouth (like eating too many Milk Duds in one sitting). Mouthfeel: Soft, medium-bodied beer with a mild carbonation. Drinkability: Tootsie Rolls and Milk Duds together in an easy drinking beer - what’s not appealing about that?