Southern Tier Imperial Oat

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

Serve in Snifter

Pours black with a brown head. The aroma is chocolaty with raisins, coffee, and lactose. The flavor is beautiful. Raisins, plums up front with chocolate and coffee coming through next and caramel/toffee like smoothness on the palate. It also has a great roasted bitter finish. Really well balanced with all the great imperial stout flavors.

Pours black opaque from the 22oz. bottle with a tan head that matches the color of the bottle’s label exactly: Amplified flavors of roasted malts, oatmeal, molasses, dark chocolate and vanilla. Mild alcohol in the finish. Short, sweet, and to the point. A signature Southern Tier brew. Drinkability: Bomber. Rebuy: Yes. #210 on 22112009, DG.

2007 bottle. Pour is black with a very thin off-white head. Aroma is deep roasted malt, molasses, chocolate, dark fruits, and tobacco. It smells wonderful. Flavor is rich chocolate malt with a nice round dark fruit flavor. Finish is sweet with light coffee. Did not know how this would hold up over time, but it is still a beautiful beer with very little if any oxidation.

30th August 2008. Opaque black beer with a tan head. Silky smooth stout. Sweet with a fruity note just after the middle. Ends with an almost whiskeyish sour spirit. Very well joined up. Sumptuos, delicious!

Pours a very dark brown with basically no head. Not a lot of aroma, but some dark malts, hops and coffee. Taste is thick with medium dark malt, coffee, cocoa and some hops on the finish. Thick and syrupy and sweet, but that seems to be Southern Tier’s thing. Not as sweet as the Chocolate stout from Southern Tier. Very good for a sweet style stout.

Bomber - Black pour with small but dense tan foam head. Dark brewed and robust aroma. Thick malt texture with harvest grains and slight bitter sweet hop notes. Somewhat boozy, this steeped stout has some weight!

22 oz. bottle. Pours a jet black oil with creamy light brown head. Rich aroma of roasted malt, alcohol present, licorice, sweet coffee. Taste of roast, smoke, coffee, caramel, blackberry. True this beer is thick, but it is not as syrupy as it looks. Long finish where bitterness of the hops becomes present.

BREWED Fall 2008 Super dense black colored liquid. Bright light does not penetrate. One-finger head of coffee cream colored foam. Retention is slight. Lacing is good, but spotty. Huge dark roasted malts come out first. Nice notes of dark chocolate. Roasted oat sweetness. Nothing really overdominant in the nose. Just a nice, smooth, easy roasted smell. Super big roasted malt flavor. This could be hugely rough and harsh if not for the oatmeal presence. It totally smooths it out and makes it easy drinking bliss. Nice hints of dark chocolate. Very, very slight hint of coffee notes. Slight hints of dark fruits. Very mild vanilla notes. Super mild hops kiss. Medium bodied and super smooth. Nicely oily. Goes down so easy. Nothing harsh about it at all. The 11%ABV is so totally hidden. This is an extremely drinkable brew. So super smooth and easy to drink. Highly recommended, if you’ve not had it, yet.