Boulder Beer Obovoid Empirical Stout

Bottle: Pours a black color with an off-white head and nice lacing. The nose is ripe and roasty with plenty of chocolate and cocoa notes, some oaky notes but I was hoping for more vanilla and less astringency, but that’s probably from bourbon aging I recon. The flavor is nice and roasty with a mild hop bite in the tail and subtle roast astringency. A creamy mouthfeel and flavor. Good oatmeal stout!

Definately not a summer beer. Nose was OK, color fine, balance present initially, but quick finish. Only major complaint, a bit thin iin the mouth.

Aroma was nice, a bit oaky, caramel. Pours dark, with a thin off-white head. Malty, sugary, but too thin - the taste is fleeting. Extremely earthy, doesn’t seem to balance very well with the other flavors. Overall, just OK.

This one held some promise upon initial sips, but eventually just fell a bit flat. Taste is focused on the roasted elements...low in carbonation, slight malty backbone, subtle smoked chocolate flavours, but the mouthfeel is a bit thin and the balance just wasn’t quite hitting all the right buttons for me. I would drink it again, preferrably on a crisp autumn night.

Dark brown with ruby edges. Long lasting, thin, very light tan head. Nose shows some oak chip character (in other words...fake, non-authentic wood, which shows only a touch of vanilla,) some herbal, citrus-like hops and a very light roast character. Flavor is very light in character and also light in body and palate. Flavor shows a light touch of vanilla from the oak chips. Not much malt character to speak of, maybe a touch of dark fruit and chocolate, but it’s such a stretch. Overall, this beer leaves a lot to be desired.

Pours dark brown with light brown head. Aromas of roasted malts and coffee. Slightly sweet and bitter with hints of chocolate and oak. Medium to full body with minimal carbonation and a dry, earthy finish. It was better than I was expecting which is always nice!

Black in colour, thin but initially large tan coloured head, good lacing. The aroma is very lightly roasty, lots of sugary sweetness, light coffee and some dark chocolate. The flavour was moderately sweet, coffee and chocolate, creamy, lightly burnt. Sweet mouthfeel, medium body, medium carbonation. Finishes lingering if a bit thin, some chocolate.

Seems to lack the body of some of the better oatmeal stouts, the sweetness became a distraction.

650ml bottle obtained in a trade with Beerlando, thanks Bryan.
Opened on January 7, 2008
No date.

This bottled brew from Indianapolis poured a medium sized head of foamy finely sized light brown colored long lasting bubbles that left behind a good lacing. The body was semi opaque with a dark ruby red brown color and soft carbonation. The aroma contained notes of caramel and chocolate. The palate was thick with a medium hop aftertaste ans was mildly tingly from start to finish. It had a chocolate dark malt brown malt hop flavor which I found to be very yummy.