Southern Tier Oat

Lots of coffee in the nose. Intense aroma. Bitter finish. Wow. A surprise. I expected something good, but this is one of those Southern Tier moments when the beer exceeds expectations. Very nice, dark, rich stout. Sweetness mixed in there. Thick. If it was on the menu at Alinea it would say: Dark. Coffee. Thick.

Pours black with a decent head and some lacing. Big aroma of chocolate, coffee, and licorice. Some bitterness. copyright grimreeser. Thanks grim!

Pours black with a decent head and some lacing. Big aroma of chocolate, coffee, and licorice. Some bitterness.

Lovely roasted coffee and chocolate aroma. Can almost smell the alcohol. Suprisingly minimal head for an oatmeal beer. Total darkness. Bitter chocolate, coffee and alcohol flavor. Almost viscous mouthfeel. Aftertaste is a little soy sauce.

Black color with a brown head. Rich, roasty black malt aroma. Medium to full body with a chewy mouthfeel. Has a dry bakers chocolate flavor with a rich, lingering blackened malt finish.

Bottle at home - thanks Sune - shared with Mette & Sune. Pitch black - small brown head. High high chocolate, coffee, licorice, high licorice, oat, smoothness, vinous, sweetness, tarmac, soya, syrup, lovely high hoppy, brown sugar, lovely. It is sune-aged for one year.

Bottle bonus received during recent trade (Thanks Steven!) Poured pitch black into a small snifter with no head. Aroma was malty, sweet and and slightly smoky. Iniitial flavors of brown sugar/molasses followed by an oak-y finish. Although a very good beer, I don’t if I would go out of the way to find it.

Bomber, 2007 vintage. Black with a thick brown head. Sweet malt and molasses nose, some coffee, a spicy note. Tarry booziness hits the palate immediately, followed by licorice and sweet molasses. Bitter chocolate bite late, the booziness lingers on the tongue and warm all the way to the gut. Take the alcohol edge off this and it would be awesome, but this is one where it detracts from a pretty nice beer.