Anstey Ales Milk Stout Review

Appropriately enough as Anstey Ales is a Leicester based microbrewery I tried Anstey Ales Milk Stout in The Ale Wagon in Leicester. It's a good pub. While Milk Stout may not be particularly inventively named I very much hoped it would do what it says on the beer clip as I love a good milk stout. The beer pours very close to black, but with a slight purple twinge and small, but fairly stable, cream head. I actually think it's quite a good looking beer. At 4.4% it's not likely to cause you too many problems, and as it was my first of quite a long session I'm grateful for that.

Milk Stout doesn't have a particularly strong aroma, but it's clearly a stout, yes I know that's stating the obvious, but if you've smelt a stout you'll know they do have a unique smell. The texture is pretty much perfect, it's thick and creamy, just as a milk stout should be. The taste is actually really nice too. There's nothing over powering, but there shouldn't be with this kind of drink, there's just a really nice little liquorice flavour that compliments the lactose nicely. Sure Milk Stout from Anstey Ale Brewery isn't going to knock your socks off, but it's a really good solid milk stout that deserves a very good 7.5 out of 10 score.