3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
12 oz. bottle. Pours a dark brown with light tan head. Aroma of toasted bread, chocolate, and the smallest hint of vanilla.. Mouthfeel is smooth and creamy. Flavor is dominated by roasted malt notes. Some chocolate and a light bitter flavor at the end. Nice beer.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle shared with Tomthompson98. The aroma is very roasted coffee. Good head and lace. Sweetish, with lots of coffee and chocolate and an average mouthfeel.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
very much pitch black, nice tan head that dissapears quick, nose is coffee, and some vanilla. Flavor is semi sweet bakers choc, some hops and caremel, maybe a little burnt flavor too, decent beer
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours pitch black with a fully receding dark mocha head. Aroma of mild roast, chocolate, some restrained esters. Taste is vinous malt, dark chocolate sweetness, and a bit of charcoal. Mouthfeel is full bodied, smooth with soft carbonation. Mild aroma, but the taste and texture were certainly enjoyable.
2.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Meh, I have to stop taking my account so seriously. I need to rate the beers I drink, not just the good ones. That’s not to say that this is a bad beer, just very, very bland.
A rich, ashy aroma with creamy vanilla.
The taste is also a bit ashy, bitter, some thin grainy flavor, and that’s about it.
Finish is thin and bitter, mostly due to carbonation issues and bittering hops that add nothing besides some remnant of a stout-like finish.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Courtesy of Degarth. Pours deep darkness with nice mocha head. The aroma is dark roasted malts, burnt malts, licorice, chocolate malts and a hint of toffee. The taste is fairly rich albeit a bit thin with roasted and burnt malts mixed with chocolate and licorice. I also get a pulse of oatmeal twang. The taste becomes more and more roasty and burnt into the finish. It has a full flavor that has a dry oatmeal twang to it.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Ok, definitely better oatmeal stouts out there. I was little let down after having Barley Island’s Java stout which was amazing. Has a normal oatmeal stout flavor, but the aftertaste is rather metallic.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Courtesy of Degarth. Dark brown pour...tan head...low retention...some sheet lacing...felt like this one was more of a dry stout than a sweet stout...some sweetness in the aroma and flavor, but very drying on the palate and the finish...definitely better than their APA, which was almost undrinkable.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
12 oz bottle thanks to tytoanderso. Pours a brown black with a fizzy brown head. Really roasty nose at first. This mellows to more chocolate and sweet malts. Fizzy carbonation, watery body. Chocolate, roast, sweet oats in the flavor. Finishes with burnt roasted malts. The sweetness is counteracted nicely with the roast, but overall there’s nothing too special.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: FEB 28, 2008 Pretty good Oatmeal Stout. I would have this again for sure. Doesn’t rate up with Sam Smiths and Milk Stout, but would fall in the next group below the elite (not a bad place to be). Not terrible thick, but not watery. Aroma is nice, again not too strong but not weak. Flavor is better than I expected. Nice and multi-dimensional. Nice mix of malt, oats, and grains in this one. Creamy and smooth. Tasty!
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