Southern Tier Oat

A nice beer from Southern Tier (when do they not make good beer). A nice roasty aroma, with coffee, sweet malts and chocolate taking center stage. Flavor was dark chocolate, dark fruits, coffee and molasses. A smooth, velvety mouthfeel due in part to the oatmeal I’m sure. Not the best out there, but really tasty.

Bottled. Deep brown colour, close to black, not much head. Aroma is sweet malts, licorice, some mild roast as well as coffee and chocolate in a really nice balance. Flavour is the same along with some mildly stinging alcohol. Good stout, which is wellbalanced.

Strong roasty aromas, dark chocolate, creamy coffee. Pours black with a dense tan head. Thick oily mouthfeel, intense roasted malts, chocolate, coffee, very hoppy with some piney flavors, wow this is a thick beer. The alcohol is not very noticable. Great stout.

Blackwater is an appropriate name -- this beer is glassy and black. Aromas of smoke, chocolate, mocha and grains. Maybe black tea, too. Big and full on the palate with chocolate and apricot hops elevated by the colossal amount of alcohol. Light, sweet caramel. Oily and slick finish with a tingling of hops. Complicated stuff. Really good.

Bottled, thanks kmweaver! Almost black with minimal head. Loads of molasses and chocolate, followed by tar and licorice. Very sweet and thick with massive body, gets cloying and edgy with lots of alcohol coming through. An unbalanced mess.

Pours a dark black body beneath a thin tan head, some lacing. Aromas of cocao, plum, cherry, light roasted barley and malted milk balls. Flavor is semi-sweet cocoa, light coffee flavors and some restrained notes of roasted barley. Full body, creamy texture, soft carbonation. Finishes a nice long cocao sweet.

Bottle: Courtesy of renhed, this pours a dark mahogany with no head. This is the first "oat-based" beer that I’ve had that actually presents oat aspects at the forefront. The initial notes in the nose are of oat, brown sugar and maple. Some molasses, chocolate and dark roasted malt aspects come through as it warms. Nice, full-bodied mouth feel lends itself well to the fabulous taste of this. Dark malts, oats, and coffee flavors are pronounced throughout and lead to a wonderful, dry, mild alcohol kick of a finish.

Pretty Amazing Beer......hard to tell it is 11% abv. This is a lot like expedition in terms of thickness and the way it coats the palate. Bell’s expedition is 10.5 and the alcohol is rather apparent on the aftertaste. This one is 11 and I find it much more drinkable. The oats are also very apparent, more so than any oatmeal stout I can remember. Anyways, this is a good beer and easy to drink. It’ll get ya drunk.......no doubt.....