This beer with a mouthful of a name came in a nitro-carbed bottle, which sounds like a cool effect for a beer, but after the poor it only kind of worked. There was no cascade per se, but it did produce a creamy thin head. It poured a very dark brown, but not quite black and had garnet hues around the edges. The head was very tan even bordering on brown. Definitely one of the darkest heads I've seen on a beer. As for the aroma it was fairly simple, cold espresso with a little bit of your classic roast and dark rich ganache character. The taste was a bit different. It was very smooth and roasty upfront, but being a milk stout has a very sweet backbone running from start to finish. It didn't have a huge body like I expected, but was more medium bodied. There was a hint of oat chewiness, but that component of the brew was not really detectable. It had a sweet long finish that coasts the mouth for quite a while. Absolutely a dessert beer, and quite enjoyable, but it would be hard to include this if wanting to have a few beers. The finish wasn't quite my favorite, but I tend to prefer dryer beers, so that is not surprising. Overall, the name probably suggests more than the beer can offer, but still a very enjoyable beer and always a pleasure to try a new style like a milk or sweet stout.
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