Red Brick Double Chocolate Oatmeal Porter

Brewed by Red Brick Company
Style: Porter
Atlanta, Georgia USA

Serve in English pint, Stem glass

Bottle pours a deep ruby red with a fluffy tan head. Scent is malty and sweet chocolate. Taste is roasted malt, coffee and chocolate.

Sampled from a bottle at a tasting. Pours a dark brown almost black color with a frothy beige head. The aroma is roast dark malts with additional notes of dark chocolate, oats, and spice. The flavor is heavy on the dark roasted malts and the bitterness that follows. Additional flavors of dark chocolate and mild oatmeal. Medium bodied.

12oz bottle thanks to ben4321. Pours very dark brown with a one finger tan head and average retention. Big chocolatey aroma along with roast and caramel, fairly standard other than the heavy chocolate. The flavor is also very chocolatey, although a bigger than expected roasty flavor comes through here, ashy almost. There’s also some hop bitterness and some substantial malty sweetness. This is a sweeter beer. Full-bodied and a bit heavy with a slick, smooth mouthfeel to it. A pretty nice porter that borders on imperial, although it’s a little toward the sweet side.

(12oz bottle thanks to Mora2000) clear medium brown, creamy tan bubbles. Nose of cream, milk chocolate, oats and dry grain. Taste of chocolate malt, oats, cream, a bit spicy. Nicely carbonated, creamy body that is medium thick.

bottle thanks to mora2000. brown pour with a cream head. nose is chocolate, oatmeal, and slight caramel. decent palate, chocolate, faint oatmeal, could’ve been a little better.

A: The pour is a dark brown color with some notes of red in the right light. The head fills up about 90% of the glass and takes several minutes to die down before I can drink the beer. I should have taken this as a warning, but I guess I’m not quite that intelligent. S: The aroma of this beer is simply repulsive. Vinegar, ammonia, acetone, wood stain, rotten fruit, and garbage are among the descriptors I have decided are appropriate. T: You’d think the appearance and aroma would have been enough to keep me from drinking any of this, but no...Again, I question my decision making skills. Alcohol, rotten cherries, spoiled chocolate, vinegar, and fruit punch (of all things) make up the flavor profile. Mmmmm. M: The body, well, let’s call it light to medium. The carbonation was simply excessive and if nothing else, did a good job of scouring my tongue. D: Simply dreadful. Obviously infected, but this is easily one of the worst instances of a beer becoming infected that I’ve come across. Step your game up, Red Brick.

Bottled as Red Brick Porter, matched by 7.7% ABV label. Dark reddish brown with a thick creamy head. Nose is light chocolate and caramel. Aroma was chocolatey, a touch of roast with a thin dry ashy finish. Liked the rounded creamy body.

Dark brown with a khaki head that sticks like glue to the sides of my glass, he fades in big blotchy splotches as I gaze through his clear depths. Yes Virginia, beer can be dark and see-through at the same time. Wafting my way is a nose of licorice root, black fruit juice with a tart nip through&through (prunes especially), black plums, and grapes of all varieties. Underneath I find brittle baker’s chocolate along with fig bread and graham crackers. Intriguing, though not quite what I was expecting. My first quaff is quite interestingly tart. Remember the prune juice that was quite prominent in the nose; well, so too in his palate. Massive black fruits all end with a tart twang. Weaving in and out of the tart dark fruits are black licorice root while brittle baker’s chocolate offers a solid ground upon which the Red Brick Double Chocolate Oatmeal Porter stands. Right about now I am struggling with what my expectations were based on the beer style description and what in reality I taste. I rather enjoy his palate, but it is nowhere near double chocolaty nor smooth and creamy with oats. The dark fruits make sense seeing as he is a porter in origin, but with a far more pervasive tart dark fruitiness than one typically expects. Fig filled breads come round in the finish, and the rest is simply quaff and repeat.

Not bad, not great, and especially different. For my first foray into Red Brick Brewing territory, I’m not quite sure what to think. I’d say give the Double Chocolate Oatmeal Porter a whirl around the ol’ tastebuds and decide for yourself whether you like it or not.