Truffle Shuffle 5.0%, Wicklow Wolf Brewing, Ireland
1 ratings
Truffle Shuffle
5.0% Milk Stout / Sweet Stout
Chocolate truffle stout Collab with Butlers chocolate

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Post author: Mark S
Mark S
2 months ago
Truffle Shuffle, Ireland
2.9
I don't have high hopes for this but here it goes. Pour was decent, had a nice picturesque body of bubbly black stout with one finger of bubbly, chocolate colour foam on top. Scent of sickly sweet, artifical chocolate the second I opened the can. Thankfully this calmed a bit after the pour, with the chocolate becoming a little less articifial and mellowing into a regular sweetness, as opposed to a sickly sweetness, accompanied by the other scents on offer of mild vanilla and Tonka bean. Mouthfeel is silky smooth but surprisingly thin, kind of medium bodied leaning into light. I think the loss of carbonation makes it seem worse than it is but I guess it is needed to keep the silky texture. Taste starts as a wall of sweet chocolate and vanilla. The tonka bean note has all but dissappeared and she lacks all and any coffee notes that one would usually find in a stout. Unfortunately, our friend lactose is also present in spades but this doesn't have to be a bad thing because as a milk stout this works really well. Silky smooth, sweet and full on with the flavour that's been promised. It's a good chocolate milk stout but if it was a collaboration with Cadburys, I don't think there would be much of a difference.