Swamp Head Midnight Oil Stout

Brewed by Swamp Head Brewery
Style: Stout
Gainesville, Florida USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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Pours black with a medium tan head. Aroma is espresso! Taste is black coffee up front with a roasted malt finish. Not super complex, but a very agreeable coffee flavor. Interesting and easy.

pours a dark ruby black with a cream colored head. aroma is dark malts, a bit of smoke. flavor is dark grains, a bit of coffee and cocoa. a fairly dry finish. pretty darn good.

Not my favorite. Coffee ground flavor, thin for a stout, chalky, then a bland aftertaste. Boring.

Draft at Fermentation. Black pour with a big creamy brown head. Rich roasted and chocolatey aroma with coffee, vanilla and earthiness. Flavor follows pretty closely with more dry bitterness throughout the body and finish. Pretty tasty Stout.

On tap. Big black pour with a small khaki head. Fair amount of lacing. Heavy coffee aroma with some chocolate and malts. Flavor follows - much less sweet than a lot of oatmeals, just nicely bitter black coffee and a little hint of molasses in the back. Only complaint is that it’s pretty thin for a stout with "oil" in the title. Very good though.

black color, aroma of roasted malt, coffee, chocolate, same flavors, some oats, decent bitterness, nice mouth feel, good stout

Pours a jet black with a thin white head. Aroma of roasted malt, coffee and chocolate. Taste follows, nice roasty coffee stout. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Tap. Heavy malt notes of toasted cereal and strong coffee, light resin and dough for the hops and yeast, with a big dose of charcoal on the back end. Head is small, wispy, light brown with good lacing and is mostly diminishing. Color is very murky dark brown. Flavor starts lightly to moderately acidic and moderately bitter, then finishes moderately acidic and moderately to heavily bitter. Palate is light to medium, watery with a lively carbonation and a pretty dry finish This Stout smell pretty nice, there’s just not a lot of complexity in the flavor.

On tap at Satchel’s in Gainesville. Poured in a plastic cup...oh well. I tend to like roasty stouts a bit more than syrupy and sweet and this one hit it on the nose. Very strong roasted coffee aroma. More carbonated than other stouts. Mild sweetness balances with the roasted coffee. Goes down easy, which is expected given the 5% alcohol. A great stout in cold or warm weather. I’m beginning to really like Swamp Head, and will have to make a visit there soon.

Deep dark body and tan head. Chocolate and coffee, roasted malts and basement. Surprisingly bitter and toasted taste. Very nice. (On tap at Satchels on Florida trip)