Bristol Winter Warlock Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Bristol Brewing Company
Style: Sweet Stout
Colorado Springs, Colorado USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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12oz bottle, served in a tulip. Nearly black with red tints. Roast & cream aroma and to a lesser extent, dark fruits and pine? Taste is milk chocolate, roast, and mocha. Sweet flavor, but the finish is nicely dry from the alcohol, roast, and hops. A sweet stout to be sure.

On tap at Backcountry with Nathan. Poursa deep brown with tan foam. Smells like coffee. Tastes roasty, like coffe, with come chocolate notes and some bitting from hops. Smooth with plenty of body.

Draught. Brown/black thin tan head. Typical oatmeal. To thin in texture for my likings. Aroma is oat, chocolate and light coffee. Flavor is mild and kind of sweet with oatmeal, chocolate, grapefruit, and coffee.

Black in body, but easily penetrable by light. Buoyant bubbles quickly rise to form a thin layer of beige cream. Hoppy aroma yields consists of resin, wood, orange pith, and anise. Oats and roasted malt are virtually undetectable. Slightly phenolic, as well. Fuzzy carbonation tingles the palate. Acidity assaults the palate, immediately lessening the potentially weighty impact of the malts as a dry edge of roast lends firmness to the body and amplifies the hop-derived acidity. Chocolate malt softens the body by contributing much-needed layers of velvety cocoa, but there’s a quickly developing graininess which soon becomes overbearing. Sweetness never quite arrives to help negate the acidity. Oats generate a snippet of pleasant toastiness, but no oiliness is apparent due to the resounding graininess. Finishes oaty and chocolaty, but the hearty malts become a distant memory. Hops continue to destroy the malt nuances by exerting grapefruit well beyond the finish. Not much to enjoy about this as it’s excessively filtered, not nearly malty enough/highly grainy, and unpleasantly (overly acidic) hoppy. Hops also destroy the aromatic malt nuances.

Enjoyable beer. Spicy and malty but lacks aroma. Good carbonation. Goes down really easy with a nice subtle sweet finish.

Thanks to BeerandBlues2 for this bottle. Pour was typical for the style, a bit light on the head. Aroma was mostly milky chocolate, some light roast. The flavor was milky, even a touch of lactic, chocolate, faint roast, oatmeal all lost in the flavor, body more slick (only just shy of sticky) than firm, like other nice oatmeal stouts. Either way, thanks again Brad, always a fun experience drinking a new one.

Bottle from my Bristol connection--BeerandBlues2. Pours black with a thin head. The aroma is of roasted coffee and yeast. The palate is medium. Flavor is mostly a tangy yeast with some roasted malt--but there isn’t a lot of flavor to speak of. This tastes a heck of alot like my first homebrewed stout--which is either good news for me, or bad news for the Winter Warlock...

well this is a great stout! pours a dark black body with red hues and a camel color head.aroma carmel and roast nuts.starts off with a mild to strong hop flavor then moves on to a choco taste finshs with a smokey carmel flavor.o and it was brewed just one week ago great you should try it

Bottle. Hints of oatmeal and burnt toast. A dry aftertaste, mild body with oak finish. Not too bad for a winter stout.

Bottle. Pours near black with a light beige head. Sweet and lightly roasted malts, some light notes of almost rotten fruits, and a hint of chocolate. Not bad.