Samuel Smiths Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Samuel Smith
Style: Stout
Tadcaster, England

Black with a foamy tan head. Stewed fruits, coffee and caramel nose. Has the usual luscious oat texture. Chocolate sweetness, with some roastiness and a finish that has just enough hops to avoid sickliness. I drank this with barely a chill on it and wished it were cooler. Half way down the bottle I fetched some Red Leicester to eat with it. That worked well, and I think the sweetness would have been too much for me without it. I really don’t understand how this is rated similarly to their Imperial Stout or to St Ambroise Oatmeal stout.

Pours a jet black with medium, foamy tan head. Lacing throughout. Aroma of sweet malts - toffee, coffee, dark caramel, chocolate.Smooth and silky on the tongue, very nice and well-balanced. Sweet? Yes but not overwhelming. Not too dry either - very nice beer but I agree with many others - this is not a session beer, but savoring a 550 ml bottle is very nice indeed!

One of my "first" favorite beers. Pours like a brown stout in color and is on the sweeter side like a sweet stout. There is a nice roast on the finish which is semi dry and slightly lactic. I haven’t had one in a while, but it is as nice as I remember.

Bottled. This was I think the first good beer I ever bought after finding Ratebeer and deciding I was going to start rating. It was also the last beer I drank before I began rating. And it has been 5 years and 2600 ratings before I have revisited it.

I remember thinking it was incredibly sweet at the time, and the flavor was very different to me. I see that sweetness now, but it is way more mellow than I perceived, with most of the character being chiefly lactic. There is a little bit of roast and grain in there, with a slightly carbonic, oaty note. I’m not sure how crazy I was about this at the time, and I know I’m not crazy about it now, although to me it is still one of the only truly sweet "sweet stouts" I’ve yet drank. Very few oatmeal stouts dare approach this level of sweetness that is not just a byproduct of underattenuation.

A terrific beer and a particularly interesting stout. I enjoyed the texture and flavours better when it was colder - as when it’s warming down the toasted notes and the coffee become a tad overwhelming.

A smooth, sweet stout and one of the better beers from Sam Smiths. Too sweet to be sessionable, IMO, but a bottle makes a nice dessert. A good-looking beer: coal-black with a lavish cappuccino head showing lace and length. Restrained aroma of cocoa powder, quince paste, raisins and tokay, spoiled in part by that a pasteurised boiled-lolly taint. Medium-bodied and creamy. Minimal bitterness and "roastiness". Chocolate pudding, blackcurrant jam and oodles of sugars. Nice balance for a sweet stout. Dry finish. (500ml bottle from Leura Cellars)

550 ml bottle from Keller’s IGA. Pours an opaque near-black with a half-inch tan head and some nice visible carbonation right after the pour. Aroma of roasted barley malts, chocolate, yeast, and hops- light aroma overall. Flavor of sweet roasted malts, chocolate, oats, yeast, molasses, and dust. Medium bodied, with carbonation that provides a bite. Not as smooth or creamy as advertised. Very dry. Not a bad beer, but overrated.

Dark black ruby hue off white creamy head sweet malt , roasted malt and chocolate aroma .... taste of roasted malt sweet caramel, chocolate, coffee and oats .... not too heavy smotth little bittersweet end ... a great brew and highly drinkable