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Southern Tier Oat

Southern Tier Oat - Imperial Stout

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 Percentile 
99
overall
Brewed by Southern Tier Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout

Lakewood, New York USA

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
6174.02/5.04.01/5.0Special11%89.9Snifter
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Commercial Description:
“brewed for the harvest” This beer begins in spring when oat seeds are sown as soon as the soil can be worked. Meanwhile, select types of barley are planted with hopes that Mother Nature will be kind. Our brewers wait patiently until the legumes are mature and ready for the scythe. Upon delivery to the brewery, these ingredients are mixed together in the mash tun where they steep, creating a rich molasses-like liquid. Spicy hops are boiled with the thick brew, giving balance and complexity. Brewers yeast feasts upon the rich sugars, concluding its transformation into oatmeal stout. Pour Oat into a snifter, allow its thick tan head to slowly rise, releasing unbridled aromas. The color of Oat is as dark as a moonless night. The first sip reveals Oat’s thick and nourishing taste. Like a haversack to a horse, a bottle of this stout is a meal in itself. Enjoy responsibly. 11.0% abv • 238º L
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 heemer77 (4294), Savannah, Missouri, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/516/20
Jun 30, 2008  
Thanks to iowaherkeye for the bottle. The body is perfectly black with a light tan and orange head. The aroma has sweet cocoa and some walnuts. There is also some rich caramel. The taste has rich cocoa and some toasted peanuts. This has a very thick body that is sticky. The chocolate is the main character, but it also gets complemented with some light spicy hops in the finish. Another good one from the kings of big brews.


 Pwn3d (1040), Manhattan, New York, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/516/20
Jun 30, 2008  
Great stout, but prefer Jah-va. Pours a pitch brownish/black body with dark brown head. The aroma is molasses, chocolate, and roasty malts. The flavor is roasty, chocolate malts. Some alcohol in the finish.


 thedm (3833), Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/105/57/104/515/20
Jun 25, 2008  
This bottled brew from JSquire at a rating party poured a small sized head of foamy fine to medium sized brown colored mostly lasting bubbles that left behind an opaque dark black brown colored body with no visible carbonation. Its aroma was of mild roasted dark brown malts. The mouth feel was thich chewey smooth at ths start and mild ly tingly in its finish. The flavor contained notes of dark malts mild roasted malt with a slight coffee aftertatse.


 Snojerk321 (1917), San Diego, California, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/104/516/20
Jun 23, 2008  
22oz bottle. Pours deep brown almost black, virtually no head to speak of. Nose carried big aromas of black fruits with molasses and coffee. Finish was creamy and very complex. Different than most Imperial Stouts, which makes it a winner in my book.


 doubleo (1096), San Diego, California, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/517/20
Jun 19, 2008  
22oz bottle. Pours black with a thin, crisp brown head. Smells very toasty and malty sweet, dark of course. Tastes very dark and roasty toasty, slightly sweet, slight coffee, slight chocolate, slight alcohol flavors. Full bodied, good carbonation.


 lamas (709), Adams Morgan, Washington DC, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/105/516/20
Jun 19, 2008  
22 oz. bottle. A jet-black pour with a smallish chestnut head. Aroma of dark chocolate, vanilla beans, caramel and some light citrusy hoppiness. Goes down very smooth. Almost oily mouthfeel. Very sweet upfront with loads of caramel and chocolate. Finishes with a roasty bitterness. Some alcohol is present throughout. Solid stout.


hiphop (84), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
4.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/510/105/519/20
Jun 18, 2008  
Bomber pours thick and black into a snifter like motor oil. Opaque as beer can get. Had to pour aggressively to get a small head - dark tan in colour. Wow, what a stout. Aroma of all the best stouts - chocolate, roasted malt, coffee, molasses, hops as always from southern tier, but not so much alcohol. Considering it’s 11%abv, I don’t hint the insinuation of such in the aroma. The same applies to the taste. All roasted chocolate on the tongue - absolutely delicious. Leaves a creamy, oily layer of smoothness on the palate with a taste that lingers until the next sip. Again, wow, what a stout.


 Haslinger (640), Syracuse, New York, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/104/517/20
Jun 18, 2008  
22 ounce bottle. Pours black with a dark brown head. The aroma is malt with a strong alcohol finish, The taste is malt, chocolate and coffee. There is also some molasses and the oat taste is definitely there. There is surprisingly little alcohol taste for how much there was in the smell. Very good beer would buy again



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