Holy Cow Batman! Red Brick Sacred Cow Chai Tea Milk Stout is now Divine Bovine Chai Tea Milk Stout. What's in a name though, as long as the beer remains just as good as this one has? Not much, really.

Red Brick Divine Bovine Chai Tea Milk Stout is a milk stout in style brewed with real tea and spices to give it an authentic chai-like flavor. Are tea leaves all that different from hops as a spice? Perhaps, but there’s no reason why you can’t season a stout with tea, and after a few sips of this delightful brew I was convinced it was a great idea.

When Red Brick launched Sacred Cow Chai Tea Milk Stout I was concerned it was a one-off, but I'm glad to see it as a November-February seasonal under the new name. Here's what Red Brick says about the beer on their website:

Appease your divine nature and drink in the mysteries of this milk stout brewed with organic chai spices. Dark chocolate notes combine with an exotic blend of ginger, cardamom, black pepper, clove, and cinnamon, which is softened by the milky sweetness of lactose. Meant to be revered, this handcrafted stout may produce spontaneous moonlight mooing, awaken your chakras, or set you sailing on your own passage to India.

I paid $8.99 for a six-pack of Sacred Cow at Kroger and assume this beer will run the same.  The beer has an alcohol content of 6% by volume with 26 IBUs, and I paid $6 for a mug at Taco Mac. It's hopped with Willamettes. Interestingly, Red Brick proved a point for me with this beer. Taco Mac had 35K Stout from Against the Grain brewery of Kentucky, and never having tried their beer, I was about to order up a mug, until I saw the price-a whopping $10. Seriously? $10 for a mug of average strength stout? I passed and ordered a local beer, the Divine Bovine, for a much more reasonable price. Craft beer drinkers, you don't have to get ripped off, and you should not support breweries that gouge their customers.

Red Brick Divine Bovine Chai Tea Milk Stout pours to a jet black color with a thick creamy tan head and a spicy chai nose of cardamom and cinnamon. Taking a sip, I get a medium bodied beer with light roast and licorice and lots of chai spice: cardamom, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, allspice. Finishes with roast and very dry spice. I love this beer, it’s like a collision between coffee and chai, exceedingly delicious and pleasant to sip.

This noble experiment works well, and this really tastes like chai. Thanks for bringing it back Red Brick!

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