Nimbus Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Nimbus Brewing Company
Style: Sweet Stout
Tucson, Arizona USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Appearance: Pours a dark brown, near black body with a scant, yellow-beige head. Smell: Light, stark notes of roasted grains, chocolate, fruit, and oats. All of it very, very light. All of it very, very forgettable. Taste: A faint sweetness overlaying a roasted barley scaffolding, a few meager hints of chocolate, and a dull, low fruitiness. Lightly earthy, faintly bitter English hops. Dry, kind of flavorless finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium-light carbonation. Overall: A mild, mild-tasting beer that’s just plain boring. I wasn’t asking for much, I wasn’t, but, come on, Nimbus, give me something to work with.

Opaque black with tan brown head that doesn’t retain well. Nose is on weaker side for an Oatmeal stout IMO. However, from what is there it is nice - Whoppers candy, nougat, chocolate, caramel icing on birthday cake. Palate is a nice chalky roasty chocolate flavor, with plent of roastiness to boot. Caramel again too. Finish is long and caramel sweet.

UPDATED: MAR 18, 2010 12 oz. bottle. Pours a translucent, dark, cola brown color with a small, creamy head of mocha colored foam. Wet flares hang on to the glass, but just barely, with a few trailing spots of lace. The aroma is a bit off, showing a slightly plasticy overtone amidst notes of dry, dark cocoa roast, coffee, and hints of lactic cream. There’s a decent amount of green, grassy hops on the nose as well, along with a faint wisp of spruce. Flavors follow suit, mainly dry and roasted, with a big cocoa powder presence and a touch of flaked oats, again showing some chemical or plastic notes. Grassy hops are again quite prominent on the finish. The palate is medium bodied at best, a little light for a stout actually, with a really dry, prickly sort of feel. It would be nice if the chemical notes weren’t there, but they are. Eh, not very good.

From Sparky27 via trade. Cola like pour with a decent tan head. Spotty lacing. Aroma of pencil shavings, pepper, lightly roasted malt and some coffee. The flavor is spicy and peppery where it should be roasty and chocolatey. A bit of coffee comes through, but it’s the sour, astringent kind. Disappointingly thin mouthfeel. Had higher hopes for this one.

UPDATED: AUG 27, 2011
Date: February 08, 2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting
Appearance: black, fine thin brown head, light lace
Aroma: huge smokey roasted malt aroma with an undercurrent of sweet carmel
Body: creamy body
Flavor: lots of roasted malt flavor, some oily character, touch of milky sweetness, big bitter burnt finish
Overall: some good pieces but they don’t gell

Date: August 20, 2011
Mode: bottle
Source: tasting
Score: 2.2 to 2.6
better but still very average

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: ** /4

Dark brown pour, light creamy colored head. Aroma is a bit metallic...infected? Behind that I get some molasses, coffee and a little chocolate. Metallic flavor a bit of sourmash. Coffee, roasty. Dry. Nah.

It’s that time of year when I really enjoy a good stout, so this is something that I’m looking forward to trying. Poured from a bottle into a tulip. Brown in color with a small khaki head. A bit lighter in color than I prefer for my stouts. Very fruity aroma with notes of raisins and dark cherries, and a solid roasted coffee scent, with a little bit of dark chocolate. So far the nose on this is great. Taste is pretty damn thin. Light chocolate, thin coffee, and a strange finish that has a beef jerky quality. Metallic in the finish as well. I’m really put off by how this tastes.

12 oz. bottle courtesy of a trade with Sparky27. Pours black with a massive sudsy tan head. Even pouring slowly down the side of the glass the head rushes to overflow the top of the glass. This is clearly abnormal and makes me wonder if this beer is infected. The aroma seems ok with some chocolate and mild roasted malt. The flavor, however, is another story with mild roasted malt, red wine vinegar, wet cardboard and a bit of a metallic twang. Dry, chalky finish. I ended up dumping almost half the glass - why waste the calories on crappy beer?!

Thanks to turdferguson for sharing. Pours a dark black that allows some light. No head, kind of inky and filmy. Nose is not good, papery, old, musty old hops and cardboard, dirty. Flavor is the same, dirty and musty, lots of off flavors. Didnt enjoy.

Beer pours very dark brown with a somewhat smallish, mostly diminishing tan colored head. Burnt aroma with some sweettart aromas. Flavor is tart to the point of being sour. I am not opposed to sour beers, but don’t look for sour when sampling sweet stouts. Don’t know, perhaps I got a bad bottle.