Belching Beaver Brewery's Peanut Butter Milk Stout

I have to admit, several things drew me to this beer: first and foremost, the name. Belching Beaver? How can you not love that name? The other is milk stout. Milk stouts, sometimes called sweet stouts, are up there in my top 5 or so favorite styles. A milk stout is brewed using lactose, a sugar which doesn't completely ferment, leaving some behind to sweeten the finished product. Finally, peanut butter is one of the flavors that, in my opinion, is an appropriate addition to a stout or porter (not a lager, IPA or pale ale however).

Belching Beaver's Peanut Butter Milk Stout has all the subtlety of a kick to the head with steel-toed boots. If you're looking for "hints" and "notes" of various aromas and flavors, disabuse yourself of that thinking right now! There's some chocolate that the malt brings out, along with the peanut flavoring and you get a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup in beer form.

That's it.

Nothing fancy!