Goose Island Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Goose Island Beer Company
Style: Sweet Stout
Chicago, Illinois USA

Bottle 12fl.oz. @ home.
Clear dark brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, bread, oat, roasted, cold coffww, vanilla notes. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and moderate bitter with a long to average duration, burnt bitter, vanilla. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20100227]

Great velvety, almost milky, med/full mouthfeel on this one with a sharpness at the end. The flavor and aroma were a bit muted with the choco coffeeness. Overall, kind of a ordinary drinker with the palate a standout feature.

Bottle. Pitch black beer with a strong light brown head. The aroma is light roasted oatmeal, and the flavour is roasted and smooth with a nice gentle bitter finish. Overall a nice smooth and lightly roasted oatmeal stout.

355ml bottle from BeersofEurope. A mild, flavoursome, smooth and tasty dark beer. Chocolate and coffee and burnt toast notes. Gentle. Some ash in the finish. Hints of raspberry fruit in the middle. Enjoyable. Has a slightly indulgent feel. Minus points are that it doesn’t have a wow factor - there’s a sense of familiarity about it, and it doesn’t do the familiar with any outstanding quality. It tends to to a buttery greasiness, so it’s a not a beer I could drink lots of. So it’s nice, and enjoyable, but also just a bit ordinary and unexciting, and lacking in remarkable quality.

An accessible stout. Could down a few of these after a hard day’s manual labour. Unpretentious, not trying to be the silliest, richest, strongest brew. I’d say modest, were it not for the bottle’s claim that it "will make you forget every stout you’ve ever tasted." It’s damn good, for sure.

Bottle, Deveney’s, Dublin. Poured a very dark, brown colour with a thin tan head. Roasty aroma; coffee and dark chocolate predominating. The flavour a similar story with burnt toast notes. Palate a wee bit thin. Alright but slightly disappointing. Won’t be rushing back to this.

tap @ Blind Tiger for GI event. Very drinkable is right. dark, thick murky with foamy off-white head. Creamy, arouma is oaty and roasty, chocolate. thick body, sweet molasses and dark fruits and brown sugar. solid sweet stout. Also have a bottle of this at home that I want to compare to the nitro tap.

bottle. Dark brown colour with beige head. Aroma is fruit, malt, coffee, chocolate. Flavour is fruit, roasted, malt, coffee, alcohol, hop, chocolate. Nice easy drinkable beer.