One4Ethanol & Ethanol4One

Left Hand Brewing's Nitro Milk Stout pours dark and frothy out of the tap in front of me at Chicago's Skylark on Cermack, where scenes from the unromantic comedy "The Breakup" were shot, starring go Google it. But there is nothing unromantic, unvarnished or unsweetened about this stout, just like it's sibling sans "Nitro". For those unaccustomed to sweet ales, unfermented and unfermentable milky lactic sugars, it may take a few tugs of the mug getting used to, or as some clever woman who tasted my 2am Nitro pointed out: "the left hand probably just takes longer".

Skylark can be like that too, lot's of great craft beers (it had three, 3 Floyds on tap last night) and lots of cut ups too, just waiting for a punchline.