Cranky Reviews

Who Kissed the Cow?

Chocolate Milk Stout

Beer Type

15 to 20

15 to 20

Super Suds

Rating

Who Kissed the Cow?

Midnight Kissed My Cow

Big Rig Brewery

5.6% Alcohol

Full disclosure, I have never milked, rode, tipped or kissed a cow*. I don’t know if Farmer Steve ever got to first base with a cow, but there is a good chance he has kissed his Kubota. He loves that tractor.

Over in Europe they have been dealing with a cow kissing challenge that has random online adventurers wandering into farm fields and paddocks and  videoing themselves kissing cows (tongue or not) for charity. Cow kissing and telling, and not tongue tied about it for sure if they are posting videos of it. I have one piece of advice for these cow kissers. Get a job.

Big Rig has accused Midnight** of kissing their cow. This is a pretty serious accusation and the cow on the can certainly

The Cow in Question

doesn’t look too happy about it, and that’s no bull. Enough bovine ramblings, I’ve milked the cow theme pretty good by now.

This brew poured thick and slow and black like a new can of motor oil; thick, slow and deliberate.  Traditional chocy stout aroma with some coffee but mellowed by moo cow milk. A dark serious pour with a nice tan yoke, encouraging me to take a pull. First taste is chocolate coffee body in balance with a sweet roast coffee finish. A mellow slightly sweet middle and a roast coffee finish for your wake-up call, no rooster required. The mouth feel was not as substantial as I expected after that oozing pour but suited the brew nicely. The sweet settled down a bit and what we end up with is a nice traditional well balanced smooth full flavoured milk chocolate stout.

I don’t know who kissed who, but I drank this beer and enjoyed it.

 

*Editor’s Comment: The term “to kiss the cow” in urban slang means to confront one’s own issues and embrace hardships that may be unpleasant, or just plain gross.

**Editor’s Comment: You may not be surprised to know that “Midnight” is a DC superhero. He is a masked detective and was first seen in Quality Comics during the 1930s to 1940s. The timing seems to be coincidental to when Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler were making popular the detective noir genre with their characters Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon) and Phillip Marlowe (The Big Sleep). Fiction imitating fiction. More recently a female supervillain alien version of Midnight appeared in the fifth season of the TV series Supergirl.

Final Rating: Kissing and Telling at 15 out of 20

Chocolate Milk Stout

Beer Type

15 to 20

15 to 20

Super Suds

Rating

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