Green Room Shaka Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Green Room Brewing (FL)
Style: Stout
Jacksonville Beach, Florida USA

Serve in English pint

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Tap at the brewpub. Pour is quite dark for a style I’ve come to think of a castrated, watery stout. But here is quite a serious monster, nearly pitch black. Nose is roasty, chocolate heavy, no olive or salt. Taste is very dense and heavy with a pounding of waxy dark chocolate. Dry, clean palate. No sticky sweetness. No astringent coffee. No wateriness. No artificial cherry. Really, all the things I hate about stout and oatmeal stouts from breweries nowadays is absent here, thank the lord.

Malty but clean finish. Very dark. Originally balanced for a stout. Very nice flavor.

On tap a kickbacks. Pours pitch black with thin tan head. Aroma is oatmeal that has been sitting out. Taste is mild sweetness but very bitter on the back end. Palate is thick and smooth. Not a bad effort, but not something I’ll be going back to.

On draft at Green Room. Pours a medium/dark stout brown with a tan head. Nose is cocoa, chocolate, light roast, and hints of spice. Flavor is similar- cocoa and chocolate up front, some earth and dark chocolate mid, and a bit of earth and cocoa in the finish. Nice mouthfeel. At 6.2% alcohol, this one is really nice.