Saranac Oatmeal Stout

Bottle. Pours a brown body with a tan head. Sweet and thin. Sugar notes, lactose, sweet maltose, and some light bitterness and oats. Thin and simple, not to good.

Eh a fairly average Stout. Decent chocolate and cofee flavors with pretty much the same aroma. It was a bit too watery. LC

Pours dark brown with a tan head. Smells of sweet malt and roasty with some spicy hints and dark fruit. Tastes sweet and roasty with a decent depth and a nutty finish.

Initially i was relatively impressed with saranac for this offering... But after the initial rush of sweet roasted malt, i labored through the second half of the beer thinking that once my palate was coated there were no other flavors offered. It was quite thin and very very generic...

Nice dark pour with a tan head. Slight roast coffee/malt aromas. Kind of lighter bodied than expected. Roasted malt/mocha/coffee flavors in limited amounts. Dry on the finish. Not bad, kind of like their Russian Imperial, there are just some things missing. If you were just starting try darker brews, this could be one to try as a warm up.

Pours dark brown nearly black with small tan head. Watery mouthfeel for a stout with slight roasted flavor. A little bitter on the finish. Seems more like a porter than a stout to me.

Bottle - Poured a very dark black/brown with a small foamy light tan head. Some lacing on the glass. Aroma is full of darkly roasted malts with a small amount of coffee and chocolate. Flavor is indistinct and lacking (a Matt trademark)... some roasted malts and a small amount of hop bitterness. Truly unremarkable... definitely not worth repeating...

Bottle from the Saranac Winter mixpack. A good chocolate aroma, some hops taste along with the chocolate, some roasted malt taste. I can’t really taste any oatmeal but this is a decent stout that I would drink again but not buy.