Bells Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Sweet Stout
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Serve in English pint

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I’m not sure how I missed this one last year, but it won’t happen again. Phenomenal build to this stout, it feels layered in the mouth with each layer a bold assertion of dark goodness, from the full oat sweets to the roasted edges, from the rich nut (cashew) tones to the swift hop bitters on close. Finishes dry like the effect of eating freshly shelled pecans. Admirable stuff.

Draft. Poured a black color with a large frothy light brown head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate to heavy roasted chocolate malt aroma. Medium to heavy smooth sweet chocolate flavor with a medium to heavy sweet finish of moderate to long duration. Full body with a smooth texture and flat carbonation. This is a very good beer.

On tap at a Bell’s tap takeover. Big frothy fast dissipating head. Aroma is roast with just a touch of oats and chocolate smell. Has a medium body. The taste is flavorful but mellow. A bit sweet and dry far from a heavy oatmeal taste. Nice smooth creamy finish. With I could get this in bottles regularly.

Bottle 12fl.oz.

[ Courtesy of Secret Summer Santa ]. Clear dark dark brown colour with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, dark chocolate, dusty, moderate oat, sod notes. Initial flavour is light heavy sweet, light light acidic and moderate bitter, finish flavor is moderate sweet, light light acidic and moderate to heavy bitter with a average to long duration, dry, light light berry acidic. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20120211]

Location/Date:Draft at Bell’s Beer Dinner @ RFD’s, January 10th, 2012.

Appearance: Pours black with light brown head.
Aroma: Aroma is of malt, coffee.
Taste: A lot of coffee, malt, faint oatmeal.
Palate:Light-medium body, light aftertaste.

Summary: This is one of my favorite non-imperial stouts.

I dug this one, big time....has a really pleasant chocolaty body without being too heavy, some decent hops on the backside, and an overall great taste. It’s not too heavy, but I wouldn’t call it a thin stout either. IT has surprising body for the low alcohol content.

On tap at Bell’s. Now this was a tasty little treat. Medium bodied, nice and sweet. Even alongside the bigger stouts, this one held up on its own. Easy drinking, but plenty of character. Nice.

Glass at the Bell’s tap takeover at 4th Street Patio on 10/12/11. Excited to try this one again because it’s been 3 and a half years since the first and only time I’ve had it. Pours black with a thick brown chocolate milk head. Aroma is chocolate, cream and coffee bitterness. Roasty malt flavor with chocolate and cream before a bitter coffee finish. Think of Kalamazoo stout a little sweeter or Double Cream Stout a little roastier. Tasty!

Tap at Maduro in Madison, WI. Dark brown pour with a creamy head. Aroma of chocolate and roasted oats. Smooth palate. Taste is creamy chocolate and light roast. Some milky sweetness. Awesome.

A real solid oatmeal stout, or stout that is, the oatmeal part is pretty trivial in most if not all oatmeal stouts.

Served on draft at Maduro in Madison, WI at the GTMW pre-party. Pours a very dark brown color with a large creamy tan head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma of big roasted malts, nuts, oats and smoke. The taste is rich roasted malts, coffee, oats, nuts and a bitter hop finish. Medium bodied. Damn good.