St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by McAuslan Brewing
Style: Stout
Montreal, Canada

Bottle as shown. Pours a large frothy light tan head that lasts awhile and leaves good sticky lacing along the glass. The aroma is a roasted malt with chocolate and smoke. The taste is a bitter malt with chocolate and burnt molasses. A very good stout from McAuslan.

Sweet aroma- malt, chocolate, caramel, and coffee. Deep black pour with a brown head that dissapated. The aroma of this beer actually made my mouth water. First sip-Wow. Smooth, dry tasting, all of the flavors that I smelled came through in the drink. I believe that I found a new favorite oatmeal stout. The aftertaste begs you to take another sip. I obliged, then I wished I bought more.

12oz bottle from Orland Park Binny’s single rack. Pours dark clear brown with tan head. Aroma is roasted malt and oat. Flavor is mostly roasted malt and oat with some dark fruits. Decent stout but not as good as rating.

Rich, thick and black as coal. The kind of stout with enough complex chocolaty flavours to make you feel sophisticated, and a bitter enough coffee aftertaste to reassure you you could win a fight with anyone else in the bar. Goes great with Hemmingway novels.

Top shelf stout, this acts and feels much bigger than it really is. Opaque black/brown pour with a 1/2" brown head and moderate lacing. Filling aroma of boozy bourbon, hearty oatmeal and plenty of burnt malts. A smokey wood scent helps round out a wonderful aroma. Thick and creamy, big malty feel coupled by a brash bitterness that sticks with you. Tons of toast and burnt malt flavor. Earth, wood, chocolate and coffee assault the taste buds. A hint of rum and/or whiskey is present in the aftertaste. Great stout.

Pours jet balck with a huge choc orange coloured head. Aromas of dry coffee roast and dark bitter chocolate with some hinting honeycombe. Palate is almost a mirror image. Some nice, slightly sweet malt coming through the mid palate before dark roast drives a long finish. Has a slight oatmeal tang on the finish. Really well balanced.

Pours pitch black with a thick, creamy tan head. Nose of light roasted malt. Flavor is malt and roasted oat. Everything is balanced very nicely. The coffee bitterness isn’t overpowering either. Aftertaste sits very well. Flavor grows on you. Some of the best lacing I’ve seen. Superb!

I was slightly disapointed with this beer, based on how high it ranked. but overall it was still a very good beer. the body was a rich and dark with a full creamy dark brown head, that sustained throughout the enitre beer. its aroma was typical of what you would find in a oatmeal stout, but a little faint, it had a roasted almond flavor with coffee overtones kicking in about midway through the beer, but was much more thin in flavor than the oatmeal stouts i’m used to. Some may find that as a good thing, but i like my beers rich in flavor. and it went down smooth (again on the thin side). overall this was a good beer, but would still have to say i have had much better.