Anderson Valley Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Anderson Valley Brewing Company
Style: Stout
Boonville, California USA

Black with a big and lasting, frothy, off-white head. Chocolate, biscuit in the aroma, not very complex. Grainy, roast flavour, thin initially, with a nice roast finish.

Bottle. Tasting @ thewolf. Pours pitch black with a big creamy light brown well lasting head. Aroma of roasted malt, bitter chocolate, coffee and oat. Very good mouthfeel. The flavour has plenty of roasted malt, and chocolate, some coffee, oat and some bitterness. Dry roasty chocolate finish with a slight bitterness.

Bottle @ tasting at my place.
[thank you, after4ever]
Pours deep deep - almost black with a great beige creamy head. Aroma is oats, dark chocolate. The oats are very apparent. Mouthfeel is initially quite lively, but turns much more creamy. Flavour has oats, chocolate, biscuit (a touch of metal), weak coffee. But the overall impression is a bit lacking and the oats are far too apparent.

12oa bottle. deep rich dark color, small thin head. nice roasty aroma, with a nice chocolate aftertaste. very tasty

Badgerben’s Cellar Reduction night. Nice black color with oatmeal on the nose. Roasted oatmeal flavor.

Almost black color. Medium head and body. Not as sweet as many sweet stouts. Roasted malt aroma and taste.

12 oz. bottle, no freshness date, blurb on the back label, sampled in a pint glass. Poured a nice looking blackish brown with frothy tan head that slowly settled into a thin lacing of creamy foam. Small amount of ringed laced sticking. Aromatic stout nose, sweet from the oatmeal, powdery cocoa and fresh light colored morning coffee, not bitter dark roasted coffee, but mildly roasted light coffee. The smooth mildly roasted coffee flavor continues in the taste with an accompanying dash of vanilla-like cream. Traces of bittersweet chocolate comes out in the middle. The hops are presence through out the taste, sort of an oily flowery citrus. Finishes mildly bitter, a citrus twang that meshes with the roasted malts. Creamy smooth full bodied feel, this stout goes down quite easily. A tasty and balanced oatmeal stout, well worth trying.

Bottle. Pours black with tan head. Nose was mild. Chewy. Lite sweet followed by bitter chocolate and coffee. NIce balance of bitterness and sweetness. However I would expect a sweet stout to lean more towards the sweet side. I caught a little licorice in the finish. A very good quality beer.