CBC Beer Description
The following beer description is from our archive. For currently available beers, please refer to our House Beers, Seasonal Beers on Tap, and Cask Special pages
Harvey Milk Stout
Sweet stout served via nitrogen faucet
Sweet stouts comprise only a small percentage of the many stouts commercially available. To make these sweet stouts, grains such as oats and flaked barley are added which provide a soft but full mouthfeel as well as residual sweetness. Additionally, Milk Stouts are brewed with lactose, an unfermentable milk sugar (with apologies to our vegan and lactose-intolerant friends!). In the late 19th and earlier 20th centuries, doctors often (erroneously) prescribed Milk Stouts to pregnant and lactating women to aid in the production of milk for breast feeding their babies - or perhaps just to sooth their frazzled nerves!
Served by the pint via a “nitro” (or Guinness-type) faucet, this beer pours smoothly with an exceptionally creamy head and very rich body. Flavors of roast, caramel malt, sweet cream, and espresso share the palate of this warming dark beer.
Harvey Milk Stout is named in honor of the San Francisco city supervisor who was infamously nicknamed “the Mayor of Castro Street,” and who was assassinated in 1978. The plaque covering Milk’s ashes reads, in part: [Harvey Milk’s] camera store and campaign headquarters at 575 Castro Street and his apartment upstairs were centers of community activism for a wide range of human rights, environmental, labor, and neighborhood issues. Harvey Milk’s hard work and accomplishments on behalf of all San Franciscans earned him widespread respect and support. His life is an inspiration to all people committed to equal opportunity and an end to bigotry.
Cheers!
OG: 1.060 FG: 1.016 ABV: 5.75%%