My Bottom Line:
Dark fruit run through the molasses’ sweetness as dark chocolate rises to segue into roasted malt dryness. This is yet another good quencher from Jasper Murdock’s.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A slice of foam covers the blackness.
-Some hop bitterness accompanies the roasted malts in the finale.
-The body is healthy and presents just a few love handles to hang on to.
-This isn’t nitroed and doesn’t suffer from it at all.

On tap at the brewpub.

Tap at the brewpub. Dark brown/black beer with a thin tan head. Sweet chocolatey aroma, some herbal hop aroma as well. Sweet chocolate and a dry coffeeish flavour as well. Well hopped with a woody/earthy (Fuggles) type of hop. Light resin and spice. Earthy flavour through the middle Bitter, roasty finish. No real oatmeal character at all, but as a dryish stout, it’s a pretty tasty pint.

(22oz bottle) Purchased at the Inn. Pours a thin, beige, dissipating head with an opaque body. Nose is somewhat hoppy and so is the flavour. Oatmeal? No detection of oatmeal? Somewhat bland and tood hoppy for an Oatmeal stout in my experience.

Draft at the brewpub - Poured a very dark black/brown with a healthy tan head. Aroma was of dark roasted malts, coffee and sharp hops. Flavor was quite bitter and heavy on the dark roasted malts and coffee with hints of chocolate. Not quite as thick and chewy as I would have liked, but the body was decent (love that oatmeal). Finish was clean and again quite bitter. A good effort...

Pours very dark with a small head. A little bitter for a stout, but with strong hints of chocolate and cocoa. A very good stout from a very unique brewpub.