SKA Steel Toe Stout (Milk Stout)

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

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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12 oz bottle-pours a fizzy foamy tan head and black in color. Aroma is milky, chocolate-dark malt with acidic notes. Taste follows aroma. Medium/full body. OK carbonation.

UPDATED: MAY 18, 2007 Pours black w/ a shallow semi creamy froth. Aroma of roasted nuts, coffee, and charcoal caramel. Medium nectar w/ mellow residual effers. Flavors are strong as expected but with a predominate burnt sugar/charcoal goin’s on. Aged malt, tobacco, coffee, smoke, leather. Tastes like a steel toed boot. Finish has a moderate bitterness. Overall: I am not fond of this. brew. Every aspect seems to have a burnt this or that.

Pours jet black with a thin off-white head. Hints of soy in the aroma, with smoky malts. In the mouth, it’s sweet up front then slightly smoky with some sourness and hints of cardboard. Maybe I got a bad bottle. It’s pretty watery.

Pours an oily black with just a tiny ring of tan head. Extremely strong roasted malt aroma reminds of an overdone french roast. Thin bodied and incredibly strong in the coffee flavors. Lacking some of the usual sweetness I find in milk stouts. Not what I expected and not what I wanted.

Pours a blackish brown with a thin reddish tan head. The head vanishes rather quickly. Nose is bold roasty malts with a hint of canned seet peas. Flavor is a very basic stout with no pronounced swetness. By far the best beer I’ve had from theese guys, but that’s not saying much.

UPDATED: MAY 22, 2006 Pours with a frothy, initially two-finger thick, light brown colored head that is just a tad creamy in consistency. The beer is a rich, almost black, deep brown color that shows quite clear as I pour this beer into the glass. The aroma is nice an roasty; a mix of chocolate and sharp, roasted coffee notes. The aroma really has a roasted, grainy huskiness to it that is more pronounced than I have had in a beer in a while. Typical American exuberance, but it is actually in some ways appealing. A solid biscuit/ toasted malt note accompanies this husky notes, and softens it a bit.

The taste I lightly sweet, but quickly moves to a roasted grain tartness and it finishes with a note that is dominated by the husky grain not found in the nose. Notes of toasted, biscuit-like malt is quite prominent as well. Ample notes of chocolate help to round out the acidity and husky grain astringency. This beer is quite light on the palate, it makes for an easy quaffer and even the husky note does not linger for all that long. This is an enjoyable brew, an easy sipper that is good for a couple pints. While it is a bit out of balance, like most of the other breweries products, It is one of the better beers from them that I have had. For some reason the flavors just work here.

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UPDATED: AUG 19, 2006 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.

Bottle. Aroma’s of coffee roasted, sweet malt and slight creamy milk. Black body with small tan head, head disipated and by the middle looked like drain oil in my glass. Flavor has the makings of a good beer but the body is thin. Just malty sweet flavor that you can get from an Amber Ale. Disappointed with this one.

i liked the bomber label with a big cow with udders hanging out. made me think i was in for a real treat of chocolate milk delight. poured almost opaque black-brown with a disapointing thin tan head that fizzled away quickly. dominant nose of espresso bean and sweetness. mouth pushed same characters not as sweet as i thought it would be choc, coffee, roasted barley flavors. a very one dimensional beer....roasted barley and probably a bit thin on the palate then the standard. thank you and goodnight!

Bottle poured black with a very little head and lacing. Light aroma of sweet roasty malt. Flavor is weak roasty malts and chocolate. Body is thin and a bit watery with a light roasty finish.
Earlier Rating: 1/31/2005 Total Score: 2.5
Bottle poured black with no head and a light roaty aroma. flavor of roasty malt with a bit of a metalic finish.