Dark Isle Barilla Oyster Stout

Formerly brewed at Dark Isle Brewery
Style: Stout
Hobart, Australia

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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Hate to place a bad review on this, but as i have paid money for this, i have no choice! As Mullet said, the look is where it all ends. Sour infected flavour and has nothing in the flavour that reminds me of a stout. Dissapointing, but this should never have made it out of quality control. Oyster Stout? More like Rancid Scallop.

Pours jet black with a big coffee coloured head. Intense liquorice and medicinal aroma which is difficult for me to describe adequately. Lightly roasted coffee and a mineral salt flavour (must be the oysters). Strong carbonation makes the taste drier than it otherwise would be. Very short and dry, almost non-existant finish. Just taking a look at the other reviews, I must have got one of the good bottles.

Bottled, found in Lygon Street Melbourne.
Crazy foaming mess of beer, exploding from the bottle. What remained to actually drink had an aniseed and cardboard aroma. Tasted pretty crap and wasn’t worth the mess.

Sweet fruit aroma with malt. Dark brown colour with creamy head and lacing. Bitter burnt malt flavour. Smooth palate.

Isn’t it exciting to be the 10th rater so I can create the percentile. What power! First up most stouts look so good in the glass. Deep black with a firm caramel head, and in this case a very rocky one. Perhaps the oysters have caused this to stay frim and robust (?) The nose is disconcrting in that it is a melange of bananas and bubblegum, clearly estery but does the strength of the stout hide a number of mischiefs? There is a slight saltiness which is presumaby imparted by the oysters but a residual sweetness remains. Overall a passable beer but there are too many deep seated deficinecies that may be masking a beer of better potential quality.

Aroma: funky with the stench of carbon. Appearance: black with a huge tan lasting head. Flavour: funky and nasty with some standard stout background flavour. Palate: thin and low carbonation. Overall: this reminds me of Orval. This is not vego friendly.

Pours deep black with a nice fluffy brown head. Slight fishy aroma, but more metallic than anything, not too bad. Unfortunately, the flavour is a little like licking the inside of a dirty fish bucket, very rough texture. I think I got a bad bottle (not the first from this brewer). Perhaps they should reconsider sending their beers across the Bass straight if they dont hold up, because thats the last Dark isle beer I’ll be buying. Drinkable, but only just

I like it when the beer pours a good head without having to try. Dark brown/red body and a large light tan head. Liquorice, salty and milky coffee on the aroma. Smooth malt flavours in the taste, not quite bitter enough for me, still it slips down easily like oysters should, creamy texture and medium body.

27 Aug 2005 (Hunnshof) - Funky metallic Orval like aroma. Dark brown-red colour, big head and suds lacing. Metallic flavours and roasted malt. lingering roasty metallic taste and a bit thin. Overall - I’m not a fan of metallic aroma/flavour/palate and I may have given this beer, better than is due.

Great looking beer - rocky head, clear black-red. That’s where the good stuff finishes I’m afraid. Same old infected aroma - apple cores, plastic and other chemicals. Severely overcarbonated, with a nice chocolatey, ashy stout character but it’s still an infected mess. Some rotten peaches and a little tart. Not impressed (again.) They’re lucky they’ve got an infection that tastes alright, otherwise they’d have a whole lot of 0.somethings from me.