Beard and Brau Golden Paw

Back to those cheerful schnauzers from Adelaide. But oh dear.

Pretty bad smell to this, earthy, metallic, garbage, massive aeration and carbonation both when opened and when poured. Sour notes dominate the taste, artificial lager notes, not a lot that's golden. Bit puzzled how it won a silver medal somewhere?

I want to like these guys. But this is a 1.0 for sure.

Beard and Brau Black Snout Milk Stout

I'm clearly a sucker for bottles with animals on them it seems. Particularly if they also say interesting things like "milk stout" and the like. And if the animals are schnauzers.

750ml beauty this, and a big thick heavy bottle too.

Bit too aerated I must say (becoming a bit of an unfortunate trend with these porters?) - had to basically leave it a while to let it settle and improve. While doing so you sort of notice that while this pours deep opaque black it's actually bubbling away merrily within. Hmm.

You also note the aroma - dark chocolate, coffee mocha sort of style. Nice mocha colour to the head also.

This does indeed have a sort of waxen quality to it that I suppose can be attributed to the 'milk stout' lactose injection. It's still a bit sort of empty in places though. Would like to see it bulked up a bit.
6.5