Boulder Beer Obovoid Empirical Stout

Brewed by Boulder Beer Company
Style: Stout
Boulder, Colorado USA

Aroma is coffee, alcohol, and leathery tobacco. Taste is pretty yummy. The oatmeal stands out, rounding out the hoppy coffee and chocolate. Finish is somewhat thin and citrusy, but the oatmeal really shines in this beer. Decent.

Black with an ok tan head. A little alcohol is in there. Lighter in taste for an imperial stout. Some oak in there. Somewhat dry.

(22oz. bottle) Pours a dark brown (near black) body with a small tan head. Aroma of roastiness, chocolate, coffee, grapefruit, and toasted cereal. Flavor of chocolate, lactose, marshmallow, and roasted malt with a semi-dry oak finish.

Bottle pours a very dark brown with a thick, foamy, off-white head. Aroma of oak. roasted malt, chocolate, and coffee. Flavor of roasted malt, coffee and chocolate with some bitterness.

Bomber, shared by NachlamSie. Pours very dark brown with decent beige head. The aroma is pretty strong oak at first, but once I get past that, it has plenty of chocolate, vanilla, and roasted malt notes. The flavor is mostly oak and sweet chocolate. There are a few vanilla tones once in a while, too, as well as a rather subtle bitterness. The aftertaste is very oaky again, with just a slight hint of alcohol. Not superior, but quite a drinkable stout.

Bomber split with Tronraner. Pours a dark red/brown which looks near black in dim light. The head is a tan ring after just a minute. Serious straight-up oak is noted in the aroma. I get brown rice, oats, earth, and baking chocolate as well. The mouthfeel is medium. Strong oaky presence in the flavor as well, but it works very well with the ashy, oaty body. A little chocolate comes out in the finish to round out things. This is a grainy, earthy, and woody beer. I like it.

Deep chestnut body beneath a frothy tan head. Aroma of dark chocolate, roasted coffee beans, citrus, wood. Flavor is dark chocolate and coffee with a slight hoppy finish. The medium body could use some heft. Otherwise, a pleasant stout.

22 oz. bottle on 3/8/2008. Deep ruby/brown pour that is transparent when held up to strong light. The tan head is large and creamy, and leaves very good lace. The oak is quite subtle, with coffee being dominant, and hints of dark chocolate,vanilla, and pine coming through. Medium/full body with some sharpness and bite on the palate. Not at all sweet with only some burnt caramel character initially, and roasted malt bitterness taking center stage.