Beer # 123 The Tom Green Beer! Beau's All Natural Brewing Company

The Tom Green Beer! Milk Stout

Beau's All Natural Brewing Company

Vankleek Hill, Ontario, Canada
Independent
Milk Stout 5.0 % ABV Brown Glass Bottle 600 ml
$4.85 (Canadian) At LCBO 
Twitter: @Beausallnatural

Back to one of the hardest working breweries in all of Ontario. Beau's All Natural's brewing stable looks like a catalogue. They produce so many seasonals, one offs, and collaborations, I believe they must stay up nights trying to figure out how to stay up more nights so they can brew more beer. Tonight's beer is a type of collaboration, one that has gained a lot of popularity lately: The Celebrity Collab. Barrie's Flying Monkey's did it with the Bare Naked Ladies (Band) and City and Colour (Dallas Green's Band). Muskoka Brewery has an upcoming Collab with Dara Howell (Canadian Gold medal winning freestyle skier from Huntsville, Ontario) (P.S. it's called Snowy Howell and I will be tasting it as soon as I can get one in my hot little hands!! Stay tuned in June!) Anyway for my readers outside of Ontario who may be unfamiliar with Mr. Tom Green he is a stand up comedian, actor, director, and rap star most notable for his own TV show on MTV "the Tom Green Show," his short marriage to star Drew Barrymore, and a bout with testicular cancer which he had documented and shown on TV. He is also starring in the upcoming "Trailer Park Boys" movie sequel "Don't Legalize it." Which may or may not have something to do with Marijuana. For more information on his work go here.

Enough shock comedy already... onto the tasting:

Pours very dark brown with a slight hint of copper around the edges. The ample dark tan head is made up of small to large bubbles and is short lived. Aroma is is smoke, charcoal, wood, and chocolate malt.Initially sweet on the palate, notes of smoky chocolate rise up in the attack. Mouthfeel is creamy like chocolate milk. Sweetness gives way to smouldering chocolate, and dark malts with the tiniest hint of bitterness. Aeration is milky and sweet, finish is woody and slightly toasted.

Impressions: Fail, So-so, Pass, Exceptional 


Cost: 5/6 PASS
Colour: 5/6 PASS
Beer Style: 5/6 PASS
Re-Order:  5/6 PASS
Experience:  5/6 PASS


Final Thoughts:

I have never been a Tom Green fan, or a fan of the Shock-Comedy Genre that he helped to create. In fact, the only way Freddie got Fingered, would ever be slipped into my Blu-ray player is if Tom Green himself was holding me at gunpoint, and even then it would require serious thought. However, I am, now, a fan of his namesake beer. The milk stout is an underutilised style in North America. It is sweet, refreshing, sustaining, satiating, an all around delicious beer. And this beer delivers on all points. I may never watch his movies, but I will drink this beer again... and so should you.

CJT


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