Yukon Over The Moon Milk Stout

Yukon Over The Moon Milk Stout

Brewed by Yukon Brewing Company

Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada

Style:  Milk Stout

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While this should come as no surprise to anyone who follows our beers, our brewers love a good stout. Our Midnight Sun Espresso Stout has been an award winner for some time now, and we often brew up a batch of stout for our growler system. I guess it was just a matter of time before Over the Moon milk stout was added to the assortment. Now, there is no milk in a milk stout, although that was not always the case. A couple of hundred years ago, milk was routinely added to the lunchtime beer enjoyed by many labourers as a fortifier. After a time, brewers began to experiment with adding milk to fermentations. These milk stouts were touted as ‘restorative beverages’. Well, never let the government miss an opportunity to put the words ‘beer’ and ‘ban’ into the same sentence. In 1946, the British government banned the use of the term ‘milk stout’ in an effort to stem such innuendo that there might actually be a health benefit. The thing was, by the time the government acted, brewers were no longer using milk, but instead were using lactose, or milk sugar. Lactose is one of those sugars that is not fermentable by brewer’s yeast. Stout produced with lactose are therefore a bit sweeter and creamier, without bitter edge of roasted barley. Our Over The Moon milk stout uses a combination of black malt, chocolate malt, and roasted barley for that distinctive stout flavour, plus oats for body. However, the addition of lactose sugar sweetens it up and rounds it off, resulting in a rich and creamy treat, full of mouthfeel. Bring your growler to the brewery, and give it a try.