It’s National Milk Chocolate Day! Oh, what a day! What a day! What a day! Milk chocolate, you see, is the way chocolate should be consumed. Dark (or real) chocolate is disgusting and bitter and gross on the tongue. It is also pretentious and stupid. People who enjoy high-percentage cocoas are the most annoying people you will ever have the displeasure of meeting. They flock to dark chocolate the same way they do to bacon, pirates, and condescending prattle about how vegetables should always be crisp and barely cooked. The only cure for dark chocolate is, you guessed it, delicious milk. To celebrate National Milk Chocolate Day, Peaks and Pints aims our daily in-house beer flight, the best we can, at milk chocolate. We present Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Chocolate Milk.
Peaks and Pints Beer Flight: Chocolate Milk
Samuel Smith’s Organic Chocolate Stout
5% ABV, can
Samuel Smith’s has always brewed the old-fashioned way and the British operation still pulls water from its original well dug in 1758. Its Organic Chocolate Stout pours dark brown with a thin, khaki head. Light oatmeal and bready aromas lift to the nose, reminiscent of rising dough. On the tongue, this brew’s complex and, with its oatmeal character, has a decidedly cookie quality to it: It’s silky-smooth across the tongue, but also deep and grainy in the flavor. It’s velvety and delicious, with creamy chocolate milk, chocolate syrup and cocoa powder dancing on the tongue. The brew sinks into the mouth and finishes sweet and full. Bonus: It’s now in a can!
Bizarre Talking Teeth
5.2% ABV, can
In early October 2022, Two Seattle beer scene veterans opened Bizarre Brewing with the goal of brewing lower ABV beers in a bona fide community space. Derek Brown and Colette Boilini met working at Fremont Brewing in 2014. Boilini has also served at Holy Mountain and both Cloudburst locations. Brown was the first outside brewing hire at Holy Mountain where he went on to lead their respected barrel-aged beer program. Bizarre’s Talking Teeth stout is brewed with English pale, chocolate, roast, caramel, and oat malts, then hopped lightly with Styrian Golding and Talus hops. The star ingredients are Onda Origins Neo Noir coffee and Peruvian cacao nibs for get notes of baker’s chocolate, toffee, fresh brewed coffee, sticky caramel, vanilla, and a touch of coconut.
Rogue Chocolate Stout Nitro
5.8% ABV, draft — can in the cooler
Rogue Ales’ award-winning Chocolate Stout is brewed with 10 ingredients: Northwest Harrington and Klages, Crystal 135-165 and Beeston Chocolate malts, Cascade hops, rolled oats and roasted barley, natural chocolate flavor, free range coastal waters, and PacMan yeast. The mellow flavor of oats, chocolate malts, and real chocolate are balanced perfectly with the right number of hops for a bittersweet finish. The addition of a nitro charge to this Rogue classic blends up chocolate and malt flavors into a smooth creamy chocolate experience.
Threshold BA Jack Knife
6.7% ABV, can
Collaboration with Montavilla’s Sebastiano’s Sicilian Deli, Threshold Brewing‘s Jack Knife milk stout is brewed with a bit of lactose then aged 9 months in Westward Whiskey barrels for whiskey and oak notes on the first sip with a boozy but mellow dark chocolatey finish.
Pelican The Brewed Abides
7% ABV, bottle
Pelican Brewing’s The Brewed Abides takes its inspiration from the classic White Russian cocktail, as well as The Dude imbibing it in the movie that made it famous, The Big Lebowski. This milk stout is brewed with Costa Rican coffee beans, cacao nibs, vanilla beans, pure coastal water, and pure ale yeast abiding in harmony to create intense, rich flavors with dark chocolate, vanilla, hints of coffee, caramel maltiness and a velvety mouthfeel.
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