Breckenridge Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Breckenridge Brewery
Style: Stout
Denver, Colorado USA

Bottle - Black pour with brown/mahogany highlights and a compact tan head that quickly dissipates to leave just a skimming of bubbles. The aroma is roasted malt, coffee and a slightly sour note. The flavor is roast/burnt grainy malts with a dry finish that has a sour/acidic tinge. Palate is a bit thin for the style.

Bottle: Nearly black, thin frothy beige head, few rings of lacing.   Roasted malt nose, slight milk sugar.   This beer is all up front, quick milky sweet roastiness but it thins out at the end.   Moderate body.   Clean, certainly finishes easy but on the lighter side.   I wouldn’t say its watered down just that its all up front.   Needs some umph in the malt department to thicken it up.

pretty good brew, has an okay bit of a coffee aroma, nice black colour, tan creamy head that disipates quickly, looked a lot like acoke after that, has a bit of a chocolate flavor to it maybe a hint of toffee. overall not too bad.

was initially scared to taste because it literally smelled like vomit. it had a real metallic and acrid aroma. initial flavor is decent...dark almost burnt molasses and a dry bitter finish. has a lingering metal flavor that makes me feel like i have to spit.

Very thin stout, black in color, no head whatsoever, minimal lacing around the glass, aroma of sour liqour & slightly toasted grains, watery thin body, sour mouthfeel, thin flavors with only a slight notes of roasted grains & malts with a touch of hops, finish was average with a bit more hops included but with a very sour & watery mouthfeel, slight black licorice flavor, sour finish, not a very good stout at all

Bottle from Capone’s. Deep brownish pour with 1-finger tan head. Aroma of dark malt, chocoff, brown sugar, some nuts. Tastes dark malty, roasty, with chocoff and subdued finishing hops. Gets more roasty, and I dare say a little rauchy, as it warms.

Pours a deep brown color with a brown head. Aroma is malty, slightly spicy, with some brown sugar. Flavor is malty with roasted malts, and chocolate.

Bottle Date appears to be January 2007, Sampled March 2007
Pours an almost black, it sits quite opaquely in my glass. It is topped by an initially two-finger thick, light chocolate brown colored head that disappears fairly quickly. The aroma is driven by the roast malt character. Lots of toasty malt notes evoke thoughts of chocolate and powdered toasted soda-crackers. Despite the large dark malt character, the aroma really does not seem to pick up any dark, coffee-type roasted notes.

The flavor has a soft sweetness to it up front, though it has quite a light body to it. It immediately pix up toasted malt / almost roasted biscuit flavors; these flavors linger on in to a long dry finish. In the finish is also a touch of roasted acidity (think a hint of black coffee acidity) as well as more traditional roasted grain notes of roast coffee beans and deeply caramelized (to the point of being burnt) malt sugars.

This is a nice drinking porter, while the burnt acidity is kept low here (definitely a good thing in a beer of this gravity), it could certainly be improved if it was even a bit less. I really like the toasted malt notes in the aroma and flavors though; it makes me think of dry oatmeal that has been left to toast in the oven. I could easily quaff a couple pints of this brew.

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