Ipswich Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Ipswich Ale Brewery
Style: Stout
Ipswich, Massachusetts USA

Serve in English pint

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UPDATED: JUN 17, 2007 Updated rating: Dark brown, airy and big head over a dark brown body. Nice, mellow roasted vanilla aroma, with honey and oatmeal. Some pleasant coffee-filled flavor. It is sweet and full of oatmeal flavor. A hint of honey-sweetenss in the flavor as well. Some molasses, but not too sweet at all. It is nicely balanced, and easy to drink. This is much better from the bottle than the last time I had it on draft. Maybe there was something wrong with the keg. Good overall.

Pours black with a finger or two of tan head. Smell is grainy oatmeal, roasty. Taste is roasty and tart on the back end. Decent.

Pours a very dark brown with a dark tan head. Aroma is mostly made of chocolate and coffee, and is a bit woody as well. To me, the aroma is more on the lighter side, though. Taste is deep in chocolate while drinking, with a long lasting coffee aftertaste following. I detect a touch of licorice in the flavor. Overall leaves a roasted impression. Very creamy and smooth while drinking. Pretty good stout.

12oz bottle in an English pint. Pours black with a thick, lacy, light tan head. Aroma of roasted malts, coffee, a little bit of chocolate, plus a decent amount of bitter hops. Flavor the same with lots of oats and malts. Average texture, sort of smooth. A pretty good beer.

Draft pint - fantastic oatmeal stout with bold malty oats scent right off the bat. Great blend of flavors from roasted malts and coffee to cocoa. Very smooth, highly recommend! ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Nice little stout. A little dry, but spirited. Thin, dirty tan head that retains sparkly bubbles around the edge.

This is a really tasty strong stout from Ipswitch. It is a plain black beer w/ but a scant ring of brownish head but it a strong coffee flavor permeates it to an extent where appearance hardly matters. It is fairly dry despite being on the higher end of the alcohol equation w/ a very strong herbal hop bitterness in the finish I have not tried a huge number of ipswitch brews but this is far and away the best so far.

22 ounce bottle - $4.99 at Total Wine & More in Kennesaw, Georgia.

Appearance: Pours out a black body with a foamy, tan-hued head.

Smell: Heavily toasted, charred bread crumbs with chocolate chips, slight espresso, oven-toasted oats, and a vague fruitiness.

Taste: Toast and roast and plenty of oats with bittersweet chocolate morsels. Medium-light sweetness. Faint dark fruitiness. Pinch of average-priced espresso powder. Underlying hops providing ample bitterness along with the roast tones of the malts. Roasty, lightly chocolaty finish.

Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium carbonation. It’s smooth enough.

Overall: It’s fine. Would’ve preferred a skosh less in the IBU department and just a bit more silkiness in the mouthfeel. Still, it’s fine. Fine, fine.

Dark chocolate aromas. Pours black with a tan head. Bitter dark chocolate and espresso flavors. Overall a pretty decent stout.

Bottle. Smoky chocolate malt aroma. Black with a foamy brown head. Chocolate, coffee, wood, toasty malt, with a very light bitter finish. Smooth creamy mouthfeel. Wow! LOVE this stuff!

tasty and wheat wine like with cocoa and coffee. thick enough with dissapating foam. good malted barley with a finish nice and bitter that lingers some.