Schooners Oatmeal Stout

GABF 2009. Black in color with a nice creamy tan head. Aroma is roast, coffee, and chocolate. Flavor is more of the same, typical oatmeal stout profile, with chocolate and coffee mainly standing out. Mouthfeel fairly smooth, although maybe not as much so as you’d expect from an oatmeal stout, and body is medium. Pretty good overall. Maybe I’ll make it over to this brewery someday.

9/28/09 notes: 2009 GABF Friday session. Rich coffe in the aroma, a pleasant surprise. Body is a bit light, as I find most oatmeal stouts tend to be. Flavor has the typical chocolate-coffee-roasts, but everything is muted. Still not a bad beer by any means, just not all that interesting to me.

GABF 2009, Black pour, roasted malt aroma with hints of chocolate. Roasty, chocolate & sweet malts. fuller mouthfeel. Great flavor & great stout

Black with a creamy tan head. Chocolate and coffee aroma and a milk chocolate tAste. Decent.

From the Jug at the GABF, Colorado Convention Center 13/10/2007 Roast aroma. Small beige head. Black and strong in alcohol with a crisp roast finish.

(10/29/08) Bottle at Valley Brew brewery in Stockton (thanks a lot Mike!). Black with a brown head. Aroma of coffee. licorice notes and fruity notes. Sweet roasty flavor with some coffee, oatmeal notes and quite a bit of dark fruits. Finishes dry with some alcohol hints (?!). Full-bodied.

This dark brown ale poured with a rich fluffy tan head and a smoky aroma. There is an intense creamy chocolate flavor with notes of treacle, toffee and coffee. There is a little pleasant bitterness at the finish.

Draft at the brewpub. Black with a tan head. Smells like smooth toasted, burnt malt. Tastes that way. Not harsh. Perhaps a bit thin, but good flavor, perhaps even a trace of smoke.