Dominion Oak Barrel Stout

Brewed by Old Dominion Brewing Company (Coastal Brewing Co.)
Style: Stout
Dover, Delaware USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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Roasty malt aroma with caramel notes, slight woodiness and vanilla with tinges of bitter chocolate and coffee. Faint cotton candy sweetness lurking in the background. Deep brown-black color, largely opaque, with a lasting, creamy tan head. Flavor is comprised of roasty grain and coffeeish bitterness, lightly smoky malt tones and finishing with further suggestions of oak and vanilla, very dry and lightly acidic. Medium bodied, palate is very effervescent and thin. Flavorful and roasty stout. Thanks, Jeff!

UPDATED: JUL 5, 2004 Pours as a stout should, very dark with a good head. Strong vanilla and malt aroma. Bourbon, vanilla, coffee flavors with a fair amount of oak toward the end. A good stout. Not too expensive, either. Highly recommended.

Beer #26 at Spiesy’s. Now, if you put oak chips into wine to impart an oaky flavour, you would be pilloried in serious circles, but this beer comes off reasonably well. Not the most complex stout - full on coffee and cocoa throughout, with a touch of vanilla (no doubt from the oak chips) - but very palatable. Bottled.

Bottled. Black with a full tan head. Dark brown with a juicy head. Dark chocolate stout. Lovely beer that gets bigger and better the more you drink it. Big chocolate flavour. Very morish. [London gathering: Spiesy, Duff, chris_o, Marty-D and SilkTork]

This beer is damn good. Smooth vanilla and bourbon flavor, roasted coffee, nuts, and chocolate all wrapped in one bottle. Nice dark black color with a tan head. Sweet aroma of vanilla and bourbon. Get some if you can.

Coffee, vanilla, mocha, milk chocolate aromas. Opaque dark brown with shy tan head that recedes to cover. Oak and roasted notes dominate the sweet choclate cocoa flavour. Smotth, medium-full body with decent carbonation. Bottle (enjoyed with MartinT and Rastacouere). Thanks Guzzler67.

Almost opaque black hue with a light brown film that lasts. Intense aroma where vanilla comes strong marrying the spongy oak. Chocolate pillows, a few cream cups, a coffee sipper and a toffee eater sitting by a smoky campfire. Well blended and rich flavors to say the least. Palate is a bit less interesting, but still delicate, smooth and satisfying, which is no surprise from Dominion. Medium body and carbonation enhance the high drinkability. Wood flavors complement the big sweet chocolate while the light hoppy acidity takes care of the could-be-overpowering vanilla by leading us into a dry finish. Great stout, cheers Larry!

Bottle @ Spiesy’s gaff. Nice black with a chocolate foam head. Vanilla and freshly cut oak aroma with green coffee beans and a few chocolate scrapings. Nice. Vanilla and creamy soft chocolate flavour. Nicely done. Even toward the end of a massive session this stands out as something tasty.
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Dark cola-brown black body with an easy-forming light tan head that fades quickly. Smells like a chocolate milkshake with chocolate malt and vanilla. The oak lurks just underneath in the aroma, but comes out more in the flavor. There’s a very slight coffee in the back of the chocolate. Sweet. A little thin.

Pours opaque ebony with a thin tan head. Sweet aroma of malts, vanilla, coffee, and nuts. Feels good in your mouth and leaves a creamy film on the inside of your cheeks. Sweet, roasted, malty flavor with an aftertaste of oak and mocha. Overall, definitely met my expectations.