Boulder Beer Obovoid Oak-Aged Oatmeal 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. Left a nice chocolate aftertaste for me to savor.

pours a thick black brown with medium brown head and some spotting. lots of oak and earthy notes coming through in the aroma. taste is nice and charred, balanced bitter/sweet, and a hop tinge in the back. drinks smooth, well rounded stout.

bottle - Pours near black with a one finger tan head. It has a roast malt and chocolate aroma. The flavor is of course of those big roast malts along with chocolate and a hint of oak. It’s well hopped and has a medium body. I really enjoyed this one.

22 oz. bomber for $7.50 at Total Beverage. The color is black but not completely black with a thin-as-paper white head. The first smells are oatmeal, oaky, stouty goodness. Whoa, the taste is crazy..subtle woody vanilla flavors but I am disappointed by the thin mouthfeel. Interesting beer, good for a one-time purchase but its a little expensive, if it was a little thicker it would be perfect. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 12-20-2007 06:20:13

Bottle: IMO this is better out of the bottle. Pours a rich deep brown/black with a generous foamy head. Smells delicious, like roasted coffee, chocolate malts, and some scalded milk. Great mouthfeel, rich flavor of burnt coffee, dark chocolate, maybe some vanilla. A little sweet, but very tasty.

22oz bottle. Pours dark brown in color with light brown head. Aroma roasted malt and floral hops. Taste coffee, dark chocolate and roasted malt with dark chocolate bitter finish.

THOUGHTS: This could have almost passed as an imperial stout. I guess more like an impy’s little brother. Very smooth and easy to drink. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a clear, dark brown that was black in the glass with red highlights in the light and an average, light tan head that mostly diminished and left good lacing. The aroma was nice but fairly weak in comparison to the flavor. It was light to moderate roasted, burnt and mild coffee malts and lighter caramel malt; moderate hops; and oak, lactose and very light alcohol. The flavor was chocolate, oak, oatmeal, a little coffee and caramel, some hops, cream and burnt and roasted malts. The finish had a long duration. The medium to full body was oily with fizzy carbonation and a light astringent finish.

Poured from the tap at the brewery in Boulder just before the tour. Fun tour...better beer. Not as thick as Iike my stouts but this was certainly a tasty creation. Very good mouthfeel, midnight black color and a offwhite almost brown head. Great beer at a great brewery.