Southern Tier Imperial Oat

Brewed by Southern Tier Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Lakewood, New York USA

Serve in Snifter

Pours very dark and only a hint of light can be seen, head faded quickly. Nose is a faint roasty aroma. Very full mouthfeel, roasted malts, burnt. Flavor is muddled not crisp and a ’green’ flavor lingers. This just didn’t finish well.

Bottle - Looks black, thick, and inviting in the glass, with a small tan head. Smells of caramel, whiskey-soaked bread, and some nuttiness. Taste is sweet and grainy with some whiskey bite, bourbon sweetness, and some bitter roast on the finish. Real smooth and velvety in the mouth -- just ridiculously decadent.

Pours a cola brown. Nose is roasted malts, toast, oats, smoke, molasses. Flavor is heavy roast, smooth oatmeal, nuttiness, toasted grain, hints of coffee and cocoa. Smooth drinker, nice full body.

Thanks 17thfloor for sharing! Pours very dark nearly black with a slight red hue and a thick tan foamy head. Aroma of heavy molasses and candy chocolate cocoa. Bits of roasted coffee. Some woody and earthy malts. Definitely some maple in there too. Flavor starts super sweet, cocoa and chocolate, very dessert candy syrupy. Picks up some woody oak and maple. Dark raisin and plum fruitiness appears towards the finish. Finishes bitter coffee and roasted nuts. Medium to full sticky body and minimal carbonation. Nicely complex imperial stout, could use a bit thicker body and more of a meshing of the flavors but still a nice dessert beer.

Bottle, with a great many thanks to bitbucket! Nose is huge, choco/coffee, roast, oats, everything in perfect harmony. That is the secret to this beer, the utterly perfect balance. The palate is much the same as the nose, broad, spreading, mouthcoating, everchanging, just stunning. I haven’t been blown away by a stout since Old Rasputin, and this truly took my breath away! Magnificent.

pitch black. smells sweet and oaty. tastes sweet and oaty. excellent sweet/oatmeal/imperial stout.

UPDATED: JUN 28, 2010 Smells of oats and alcohol. Resembles motor oil. Tastes like coffee, oats, and a hint of alcohol. Good stout.

I need to chill out and give Southern Tier the props they deserve.

Based largely on the dismal failures that I consider their IPAs and strong ales to be, this one of those breweries that I love to hate.

But darn it, Southern Tier Oat was one heck of an imperial stout if you like your stouts sweet and oatmealy. I like oatmealy -- and while I don’t like uber-sweet so much, this beer comes through in spades when it comes to an ice cream float. Yep, Southern Tier Oat and Southern Tier Chocolate are my new #1 and #2 ice cream float beers. This one: coffee and chocolate, of course, some heat but not bad at all one year in, black cherry, and when you take a scoop of the ice cream out with a spoon, all coated with stout, you get the most amazing toasted marshmellow you can imagine. Huge props for that alone, additional for brewing a what I imagine to be nothing short of a great imperial stout for those sweet-tooths out there.