Bristol Winter Warlock Oatmeal Stout

Picth black pour, producing a smallish light brown head. Obviously chocolatey nose, sweet and milky. A nice malty fruit base (grapes, berries) gets shied by the impressive hoppy citrus bite. Quite dry for an oatmeal stout, rich enough that I can see why most people enjoy it a lot, but it remains a bit too hoppy and sour/citric for my stout preferences. Round mouthfeel, medium-full bodied, slightly astringent, quite intense carbonation.

(draft) Black body with small beige head. Aroma is medium sweet, chocolate, light cherry, roast. Taste is medium sweet, chocolate, cherry, grapefruit, some coffee. Roasty and coffee in the finish. Smooth full body, some alcohol. Big beer, sipping not chugging.

Big roastiness and chocolate in the aroma. Light brown with a decent size bubbly head. Almost german scwarzbier maltiness in the fore followed by a very muted touch of roastiness and finishing with creamy milk chocolate.

on tap- pours a tan head. Color is dark brown/black. Taste is rich, coffee/chocolate. Not my style but nicely done.

Bottle into tulip glass. Sometime in 2004. Smells like a musty doilie, and yet not totally bad. Black in the glass with a small head that dissipates mostly, shows lacing with small tight bubbles. Oatmeal is very evident in the flavor and the grainy texture. There might actually be oatmeal floating in here. This is perhaps the oatmeal stout that is truest to the name in my experience. For some reason, this beer reminds me of Iowa. I like Iowa better, though.

12oz bottle bottled in the 5th week of October. (That would make this a Halloween Winter Warlock as the only day in the 5th week of Oct. last year was the 31st). Pours to a brown head with spotted lacing. The body is really dark brown and is opaque, however, I can make out whitish specs of particles in the body. The aroma is coffee, raisins, and peppermint and/or spearmint. It kinda has that numbing aroma like when you smell peppermint oil. The flavor initially hits with a smooth milk chocolate that finishes out with an oatmeal, light coffee, and minty flavor. The palate has a lively carbonation to it but comes of like thick water more than creamy milk. This is good, but there are many better sweet stouts I like better.

12oz bottle seemingly bottled in the 5th week of October. Smooth milk chocolate base in the aroma with sooty coffee on top. Tons of milk chocolate in the flavor - it has some oily black malt on the edges and some molasses cookie but yeah mostly tasty chocolate. Appropriate mouthfeel for the flavors (i.e. thickish and low carbonation). This comes pretty close to what I’d like a sweet stout to taste like, lots of sweet chocolate flavors. It has sort of an oilyness about it that detracts, but that’s about it.

pours a dark color w/ a very thin tan head. smells strongly of coffe, roasted malts & raisens. palate is rich and a little creamy w/ a hint of carbonation. Flavor is syruppy w/ hints of raisens, semisweet chocolate, and light coffee. Overall a pretty solid beer but didn’t contain the creamy oatmeal element I expected from an oatmeal stout.. but a good beer anyway... Thanks to JPDipso for this one.