Southern Tier Oat

Bottle courtesy Gillard. Pours black with a small tan head. Aroma of licorice, roasted malt, coffee, alcohol, and a hint of oats. Taste is the same as aroma with the oats being a little more prominent. Full creamy mouthfeel with a moderate amount of bitterness and very smooth alcohol. Very good.

Pours a dark inky black-brown with a lacy light brown head. Aromas of milk chocolate, espresso, and toasted oats. The flavor is quite powerful, starting with chocolate covered oats, caramelized sugar, and espresso and ending with a powerful bitter dry finish. This beer has a Smooth warming finish that does a respectable job of concealing the alcohol, making this beer dangerous. A fine stout with some real power behind it.

This is a well balanced, huge beer. Black pour. Dark chocolate liqueur aroma. Chocolaty flavor with the high alcohol content almost totally imperceivable, but enough hops on the finish to give it nice structure.

Thanks sliffy: Holy booze factory!! This is a potent beer. Pours wickedly dark, aroma of roasted chocolate malts, scalded milk, oatmeal, and booze. Flavor is much the same; the oats lend a dryness to this beer, but it is very full-bodied with a silky dark chocolate-ness to it. Very, very warm finish.

Pours a very dark black chocolate with a small, light brown head. Delicious chocolate, oatmeal aroma, very sweet and rich. Taste is similarly delicious with some dark fruits at first. Then all out rich, dark chocolate, with a very creamy oatmeal cookie body. The sweetness lingers with just a little alcohol on the long finish.

Pours black with a thin tan head. Aroma of malt, oats, and coffee. Good roasted malt and chocolate/coffee flavors. Great creamy mouthfeel, but the alcohol is a bit too noticeable.

(Bottle, thanks to Puddintane and MaxxDaddy) Pours dark brown to black with a small brown head. The aroma is heavily malty with a medium to heavily roasted profile. Tons of dark chocolate, cocoa, chocolate ice cream, brown sugar, dark caramel and molasses with smaller notes of oat cookies, stone, smoke, roasted nuts, vanilla, cold coffee, prunes, raisins, anise, sal ammoniac, metal, salt and shellfish. Light notes of hops with subtle hints of grass, mild resin, apricot and light citrus. Touch of subtle spices - maybe the faintest hints of ginger and coriander, very strange aromas for an Imp Stout. The flavour is medium to heavily sweet, medium to heavily roasted and light to medium bitter. A lot of dark caramel, dark syrup, chocolate, some coffee and some anise. Undertones of prunes, raisins, dark bread and oat cookies. Some of hops with hints of citrus and apricot. The mouthfeel is oily, sticky, soft and a bit syrupy. Some biting, numbing alcohol that dries out the finish. Aftertaste of molasses and chocolate syrup. Near full bodied. Very good, but on the edge of being too sweet.

Aroma is rich, roasty malts and alcohol. Flavor is rich and thick with a big malt and black chocolate. Thick, rich, heavy body with cloying mouthfeel and finish.