Left Hand Nitro Milk Stout Bottles Hit Shelves!

If you haven’t had a fortunate enough life to have tried Left Hand’s Milk Stout on Nitro, leave now. Find your nearest craft beer bar, and demand it. Let me know when you’re back.

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Now that we’re all on the same “Milk-Stout-on-nitro-is-fantastic-and-as-creamy-as-it-gets” page – something wonderful has happened! Left Hand has become the first American brewery to bottle a nitro beer. We’ve all seen it in cans with Guinness, but this is a fully legitimate US owned craft brew coming to your fridge full of that creamy, nitrogenated goodness. To give all of us uneducated American drinkers the full effect, they’ve been running a campaign teaching everyone how to properly pour a Nitro pint, since it is actually different than how you pour an average beer. In a gesture of true devotion to everyone properly enjoying this stout, Left Hand has even put a QR code on the bottle, linking to this video:

Equally as amazing as the reality of packaged nitro Milk Stout itself, is the fact that they’ve managed it without the use of a “widget” like what you find inside of the Guinness cans. It’s a pretty amazing technical feat, that apparently took them a few years and a few hundred thousand dollars (!!) to accomplish. Worth it, in my opinion. They even managed to keep it a secret until they announced it at GABF this past September, 2011.

This isn’t entire breaking news, but I just heard about it tonight, so I figure some other folks must have missed it, too! Starting this week, the bottles will be released in cities throughout the country. Chicago gets lucky first…but check out the rest of the release dates below!

When it hits Boston on February 9th, be sure to stop by the Craft Beer Cellar in Belmont, MA to join Chris Lennert of Left Hand Brewing for the East Coast kick off! I’ll definitely be there, probably picking up a whole case…