Is it light or is it dark?!?!?

[Kealia]

Just heard from a local tap house that they are pouring a "white stout" tonight.

Apparently, it's Anomaly Milk Stout from Faction Brewing and it looks like a pale ale and tastes like a Milk Stout. It's a local brewery (about an hour away) so I may have to try this just for the 'wow' factor.

It is a milk stout, but there's a catch. Like all examples of the style, it's sweetened with unfermentable lactose sugar and bears many of the flavor hallmarks we come to expect from such a beer: a coffee-like roastiness, a licorice-like snap, and chocolatey aromatics.
But here's the thing: it looks like a pale ale. Faction calls it a white chocolate milk stout. They've accomplished this act of visual wizardry by omitting the dark barley that gives stouts their color and chocolatey, coffee-like, licoricey roastiness, and replacing it with ingredients that emulate the missing flavors. In this case, we're talking about TCHO cacao nibs, coffee from Roast Co., and star anise.
It's a little hard to comprehend. It's a true anomaly in this world of the unexpected.
A tasty, tasty anomaly.

Now available exclusively in nitrogenated kegs.
(must be poured with a nitrogen/CO2 gas mix through a nitro faucet)

#MindBlown

[Beer-lord]

So If I made my black IPA that you don't like, white, would you drink it?
Either way, color me curious.
I like chocolate milk better than plain milk!

[Kealia]

I didn't say I'd drink it, I said I'd try it.

I guess that makes me bi-curious?

[Beer-lord]

I didn't say I'd drink it, I said I'd try it.

I guess that makes me bi-curious?

Hmmm, I think you need to discuss this with Jeff. Not that he's bi, just that he's more worldly and might know more than me.

I can't find much at all online about this beer but I am curious. I say go for it and spill the milk telling us what you think.

[Inkleg]

Don't know if I'm more worldly, but defiantly open minded. Besides, it doesn't count if you're just "experimenting" right?

Plus, now that my reputations ruined I can live quite freely.

[Beer-lord]

This forum is the greatest stress reliever in the world. It's better than any therapy that any therapist could give.
I would think the only thing better would be Kate Uptown coming over with a keg of Stone Enjoy By.

[Inkleg]

You are so right about that. All Hail Leigh the great healer and stress reliever.
And I'd be more than willing to share Kate and a keg with you.

[Beer-lord]

I bet if you had a keg of Enjoy By, you'd share me with Kate.

But as a moderator, I think I might have to put the skids on this thread as it's getting kind of scary to read the words I write.

[Inkleg]

Yep, better than therapy.

[mashani]

So now pale beer is icky too. LOL.

[Inkleg]

So now pale beer is icky too. LOL.