Anderson Valley Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout

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

This could make a great baseline or starter beer for someone looking to explore sweet stouts. Not a bad session beer either it is pretty easy drinking. Thin body, slight head. Smells of raosted malts, coffee & oates. Flavors are similar with some sweetness and chocolatey malts. Overall it’s a tasty, easy to find above average stout.

(Bottle) Aroma sweet, not particularly strong, like mildly roasted oats. Flavour, sweet, too much so. Fairly heavy and thick, and very flat. I do not notice the "dry finish" that other reviewers mention--to me, this lacks the dry bitterness that is essential in this type of beer. Although there weren’t many strongly objectionable qualities, overall I thought that this was a weak, bland beer was far from impressive.

Bomber - Smooth pour into a goblet, dark mohogany and maroon colors around the edges, with a near-black center. Disappointing head that remained as a thin film on the edges for most of sipping. Aroma of smokey malts, light roastiness, gingerbread and chocolates. Its says oatmeal stout, I got the rolled oats in the flavor, but to me it was pretty subtle. Pretty sweet and dry finish with low alcohol. Not bad at all, worth a try, but I prefer the Imperials

12 oz Bottle-Poured black w/a moderate off white head. Roasted malt aroma. Kind of a standard Stout-roasted malt, coffee, licorice, some chocolate, did have a little bit of a smoked overtone to it but nothing major. Kind of light & thin, Had some carbination; Dry finish. Nothing special, solid brew.

Bottle. Poured black with a thick tan head. Aroma of oats and barley. Medium body with malt, chocolate but not much oats. Light finish. with mild oatmeal notes.

I may have gotten a different bottle of this than most people, as I wasn’t very impressed. Poured to a dark brown with thin tan head that dissipated fairly quickly and left oaky lacing. I had to work to get much aroma, which was faintly malty chocolate-toffee. The taste was also a fairly sweet, but faint, chocolate, and was undone by the watery mouthfeel of this thin-bodied beer. The finish was also hgihly influenced by the thin body, and was short, watery and a little stale. Not as good of a beer as I expected.

Bottle. A very easy drinking stout. Maybe, too easy, a lttle thin but the flavors were all there, chocolate, coffee, roasted flavor. I enjoyed this one.

Decent flavor to this one, lots of roasted flavor, with a bit of sweet chocolate, hops, bitter on the aftertaste, easy drinking brew.