Black Isle Hibernator Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Black Isle
Style: Imperial Stout
Munlochy, Rosshire, Scotland

Serve in Snifter

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Bottled 0,33L. Dark brown color, very good head of long long persistance. Pleasant cocoa and cooffe aroma with notes of braced malt and ash. Very smooth taste, very bitter palate with an equilibrate alcoholic content and long final.

The head is robust, the body black. It smells robust, sweet, and a bit alcoholic-creamy. The taste is sweet, roasty, coffee, oat, darkmalty. Ok but could be a bit more intensive. 11/11/10/10/12/10

Bottle pour@4th Festival der Bierkulturen Köln 25/05/2013. Upfront in this unidirectionally satisfying basic stout: Butterscotch bourbon chocolat. Elegantly forward hop bitterness, complemented by some decent wood. Vanilla and raisin. No abv apparent, great rounded, full oatmeal stout, nothing too imperial though.

Bottle at a ChrisO tasting - London. Pours clear, black-red with a creamy, off-white foam head. A bit of chocolate and hard alcohol on the nose, some peat. Medium to big sweet flavor with dark and sugary chocolate, some toast, earthy bitterness. Medium to full bodied with fine carbonation. Sweet finish, moderately roasty, with rich chocolate, mild earthy bitterness, dark bread. Very smooth overall and very solid.

330 ml bottle. Black, with a thin brown head. Aroma of sweetish roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, notes of fruits. The flavour is roasted malty, with milk chocolate, coffee and a roasted hoppy finish. Very nice.

Bottle from Beers of Europe cons 2013-03-31 Uddingston AR: roasted malt, heavy dried fruitiness, citric AP: dark brown, stouthy lively creme beige head F: heavy roasted malt, coffey beans, chocolate nibbles, wee salt licorice, perhaps a hint of raisins,

# 3253 ersma: mit haferflocken gebraut. also eigentlich müsli. tiefschwarz, rubinschimmer im gegenlicht. schaum könnte stabiler sein. der geruch ist säuerlich und röstmalzig. süßlich-getreidiger antrunk.schnell gesellt sich eine bittere note hinzu. röstmalz ist natürlich auch dabei mit etwas schoko und karamell. die mitte wird herber, leicht kräuterige aromen. der abgang ist hopfenbetont und abnehmend malzig. fazit: den geschmack des hafers kann ich nicht direkt feststellen. aber gut trinkbar ist es. 9,9,10,10,11,10 - 9,80 - 29/3/13

330ml bottle (Alko Arkadia, Helsinki)
RIch burnt liquoricey and marmitey aroma. Quite light in the mouth, refreshing carbonation, no heaviness at all for something with so much roast and 7% alcohol. Basically black, and a brief beige head. which settles to a ring. BUt that’s not light as in lacking flavour, in fact it’s a very pleasant full roast, and marvelously melly - a soft comforting pillow of roasted malts, I love what the oatmeal bringe to bears like this. Great burntness, it’s definitely heavily roasted but is utterly devoid of all sharpness, acidity, or astringency. Drinkability high, no sign of any alcohol at all. Not saying big at all - great balance, great poise.

Mild malty and coffeyish nose. Pale brown head. Dark black reddish color. Slightly sweet malty bitter taste with some coffee notes. At the end hops bite. Good well balanced Stout.

31.12.12. Bottle. Light brown, medium sized foam. Black. Aroma is chocolate and coffee, very pleasant. Taste is great; creamy coffee and chocolate. Smooth mouthfeel. Aftertaste bitter and roasted. Nice beer that I would have again. (don’t know exactly why RB calls this an imperial stout, I did not expect that)