Saranac Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Matt Brewing Company
Style: Sweet Stout
Utica, New York USA

This was one of the better beers in the Winter 12 pack but still not the best oatmeal stout I have ever tried.

(12oz bottle) Cola-black body topped by a medium beige head. Aroma is medium sweet, cocoa, some roast, light lactose. Taste is medium sweet, coffee, some cocoa. Medium roast bitterness mellowed by the oats. Smooth light-medium body.

Give this a reasonable rating considering it was part of a 12 bottle sampler. And as Saranac goes this is about the best of box. Which doesn’ really set it high, just higher than some of the other crap they try to slip in the box.

Dark brown with a tiny brown head. Roasted coffee aroma. Bitter coffee flavor. Kind of watery.

From the winter sampler pack. The body is black, but shows plenty of ruby when held to light. The very thin head is light tan colored. The aroma is roasted walnut along with some light coffee and mocha cream. The taste is nasty cheap milk chocolate with some light burnt toast crust. There is a strange finish of day old coffee.Not a very good oatmeal, but not bad either.

deep brown. tiny head lived less than a second. looks dead. smells nice and chocolatey and like roasted coffee beans. where saranacs sually fail is in my mouth... let’s see...well! actually this kinda hits the spot, it has a fuller body than most of their beers (even in styles that should be fuller). And it does have a nice roasted flavor. I consider this closer to average, I think their other beers are below "average" (average for what I usually want to drink). This is decent, I’m gonna go enjoy it. Ok, it is a bit watery but that roast barley is just hitting the spot now, I can’t knock this too hard.

chocolate aroma, bitter chocolate/then a bit sweet, small lacing, thinner than expected, one was enough

12 oz bottle Pours a dark murky brown alm0st black.Has a strong aroma of chocolate with hints of coffee. Has a tender sweet chocolate toffee flavor. Full body and syrupy, with a touch of metal finish. A rather polite stout, not super heavy and subtle flavors. An enjoyable stout.