Italian Oasis Black Bear Stout

Brewed by Italian Oasis Restaurant & Brewery
Style: Stout
Littleton, New Hampshire USA

on tap-pours a brown head and black color. Aroma is dark malt-licorice, secondary earthy/spice hops. Taste is dark malt-anise, secondary earthy/acidic hops. Full body.

In short: A standard highly roasted pub stout. Sessionnable but forgettable.
How: Tap at brewpub
The look: Almost black body topped by a little tan ring of foam
In long: A standard roasted nose. Taste is very roasted with a light cacao and light coffee flavours in the background. Malts had a cake-like flavour, an over-baked (burnt) cake. A light vegetable sensation but not enough to be really bothersome. Hops take the form of some green grass. Finish is rather bitter but most of it seems to come from the high roastiness. Not bad, but this is exactly the type of stout that most below-average make. Italian Oasis, a place where everybody is a cousin and nobody complains about your personal hygiene.

My Bottom Line:
Roasted malts develop coffee connotations and bitterness, as light esters roam beneath this approachable yet unpolished Stout.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-There is no head at all atop the brown-hued blackness.
-Lax carbonation and high dextrins make for a disappointing mouthfeel (for drinkability’s sake, anyway).
-Powdery chocolate is tasted sometimes.
-The finish is reasonably bitter, but there’s not much else going on there.

On tap at the brewpub.

Pours dark brown with a tan head. Smells of roasted malt, pepper, tarte. Tastes tarte and rich with a roasty finish.

Aroma:light coffe nose.... Appearance:Dark,no head... Flavor:light coffe flavor,watery...

Dark brown color with a thin light brown head. Mild aroma of chocolate and roasted malt. Decent flavor of chocolate and roasted malt, the trouble is that the dominant flavor is cardboard. Yuck.

On tap at the brewpub: Dark brown/black with a thin off-white head, roasted aroma, medium bodied, starts and ends lightly sweet, best beer that they had on tap while I was there.

Chocolately/brown in color with a thin off-white head.Aroma of fruit,roasted malt. Flavor is of roasted/chocolate malt with a touch of nuttiness and fruit.Thin bodied,yeasty,starts sweet finishes dry.