Last weekend, N and I went to a bar where they had about 3 million beers on tap. Well, maybe more like 54. But either way, at most bars, if you ask for a dark beer other than Guinness on tap, they may have Newcastle, or suggest Killian’s. Right.

So, needless to say, we were impressed at the North River Tavern in Sandy Springs, where they have at least half a dozen dark beers on tap. They even had a few of our favorite bottled beers. So between us, we sampled five dark beers on tap. We’d had four of them in bottles before. The differences were interesting. N discusses our experience in detail here.

I’ll be rating the beers on tap as their own entities. The four we’d had already were quite different from their bottled brothers. Today’s focus: Left Hand Milk Stout on tap. Sound familiar? It should; we rated it here.
Since I gave the bottled version a 10, I can’t rate this any higher… but I want to. It’s just as tasty as the bottle, with no bitterness at all. It’s smooth, sweet, and delicious. It’s hard to beat the freshness of a beer that’s just been drawn, and I like this one more than the bottle because of that. It also seems a bit smoother.

I’d drive the 45 minutes in a heartbeat for this beer. It’s gooood.

M: 10+ (10 bottle)
N: 9.5 (9 bottle)