milk stout

noun

plural milk stouts

: a slightly sweet stout typically brewed with lactose

Milk stout is sweet because ale yeast cannot digest lactose, which remains in the beer as a nonfermentable sugar.

—Christine P. Rhodes

It's a perfect milk stout: chocolatey and roasty, smooth and creamy, and topped with a velvety head that caresses your every sip.

—VinePair.com

Although it is originally a 19th-century beer style, milk stout did not gain peak popularity until after World War II.

—Jeff Mendel and Keith Villa

While a lot of milk stouts tend to get a little heavy-handed with sweetness, this one didn't follow the trend. It tasted like a very standard, tame porter.

—Mike Riedel

Examples of milk stout in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The previous one happened in 2017; for that event, Dry Ground Brewing Co. brewed a coffee milk stout called Umbra. —Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 3 Apr. 2024

The Spooky Pumpkins features real pumpkin and classic fall spices, while the milk stout pairs similar spices with vanilla and cacao in a smooth, dark brew. —Bradley Hohulin, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Oct. 2024

These beers are known as 2:00 PM, a coffee milk stout (brewed at Dry Ground in collaboration with Henderson Brewing) and 2:02 PM, a blonde stout with coffee and cacao nibs (collaboration brewed at Henderson Brewing). —Michele Herrmann, Forbes, 3 Apr. 2024

For those looking for a more sweet offering, the oatmeal milk stout offers a creamy, darker brew. —Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 10 May 2024

Oatmeal stouts have a silky smoothness from the oats used in making them, while sweet or milk stouts are brewed with malt sugars and even lactose. —Jay R. Brooks, The Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2024

The chocolate milk stout tastes like Girl Scout cookies' Thin Mint cookies crushed into a beer. —Kristine M. Kierzek, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1909, in the meaning defined above