Mule Kick Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Anheuser-Busch InBev
Style: Sweet Stout
St. Louis, Missouri USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Draft 6 oz glass at the A-B tour in St Louis. Black like a stout but little to no head and little body. My wife’s simple assessment: "Dark water." Mother-in-law: "No flavor." I think I might’ve picked up a bit of licorice, but otherwise this doesn’t break out of the Anheuser mold of bland beers. (#3023, 7/15/2007)

Draft at the Bier Stube in Moline, IL. Opaque, dark brown with orange highlights. Head was thick, tan, and left a curtain of lace. So far so good. Not much in the way of aroma other than minimal chocolate. Things have started to fall apart. Dry on the tongue with a dominant cardboard-like flavor accented by a hint of roasty malt. Medium bodied, but not a very good oatmeal stout. Too dry, too cardboardy.

Stl microfest. Pour is a dark red with a small tan head. Aroma is super faint with some roasted malts and a hint of chocolate. Flavor is super watery and flavorless. About as good as a pale lager. Nothing going on with this one. Way to crap on our state mascot.

Nice attempt from a beer company I do not like. They are however striving for a better beer and I can totally respect that. Not Bad

UPDATED: MAR 17, 2008 Had this beer at the Howard Johnsons in the bar thought this was a very good draft. Smelled of choclate not bitter after taste. A very good beer from the tap.

Pours dark brown with a beige head. Aroma of roasted malt and light chocolate. Flavor is sweet and fairly smooth. Not bad for AB.

Sessionable and inoffensive stout that won’t blow anyone’s mind. The waiter at the restaurant told me this was a new dark lager from a microbrewery in St. Louis. Those people are going to hear a few words from me, if I ever go back there. Interestingly, it does taste like a reasonable dark lager. The fact that it’s actually a stout is funny. I’ll do my best to forget the style and the megabrewery and rate it based on my impressions at the time. It was served too cold, which I mention because the kind of places that serve this to you are likely to do the same. Looks fairly nice, though... pours black with a frothy and reasonably lasting tan head. Aroma, even when warm, was a faint, roasty malt. Flavor brings a very light bitterness with roasted coffee notes. Not much aftertaste of which to speak. Thin MF with average carbonation. Goes down extremely easy. A dark, inoffensive quencher from A-B. Not bad, just boring.

Tap. Pours a dark brown color with a decent sized head. Aroma is roasted malts and chocolate. Flavor is a bit on the weak side. A decent beer for missouri!

UPDATED: JAN 9, 2008 As good as anything AB does...of course that is a qualified statement. Mild chocolate aroma-roasted malt and paper and watery body. Like Gr8tefulTed, I too had this at Johnny’s Tavern in Overland Park, KS. Not impressed.

Draft at Tanners. Poured a blackish dark color with a tan white head. Aroma of malt and hops with a hint of chocolate. Taste is thin but smooth with alcohol notes very present.