3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
A: The pour is a dark brown color with ruby red highlights when held up to the light. A finger’s worth of off-white head.
S: The nose is on the sweet side with chocolate, oatmeal, and caramel malts. A bit of roast and coffee to go along with it.
T: A pretty decent flavor, but not overly impressive. Chocolate, mild coffee, mild roast, and a hint of bitterness. Like most of the other beers Taps has, very sweet.
M: The body is medium with a smooth carbonation. Not quite as silky as oatmeal beers tend to be.
D: This is a good beer, but it’s not mind blowing. I wish it was a little more interesting and had more intense flavors.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
On tap at the brewpub. I rated this as a brown ale, because it fits better as a brown ale in my mind than a stout. Pours a really light colored brown for a stout (about 18 SRM!), with a small tan head. Aroma is oats, grainy, woodsy, earthy, brown sugar and very light roast. Taste is a typical brown ale (not stout), brown sugar, grainy, earthy, caramel, and VERY light roast. Medium to high carbonation.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Sampled on tap at Taps on 7/10/2010 from a 2 oz sampler. This oatmeal stout pours a dark amber color from the tap. Small sized white foamy head. The aroma is chocolate, roasty malt and a touch of vanilla. A medium to light bodied Oatmeal Stout. The malts are chocolate and nutty. The hops are herbal and earthy. Nice balance. There is just a hint of chocolate throughout the beer, kind of a nice effect. I was kind of expecting an oatmeal stout to be a little thicker bodied. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 14/20
On tap at TAPS fish house and brewery. Comes out ice cold...pours a deep black with a thin head. Nose is strong of soy sauce, licorice, malts, oats, and sewer. Taste is soy sauce, roasted malt, oatmeal. Mouth is very dry and thin...not bad, not great...however, I won’t be ordering this again.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
Reddish brown with a creamy tan head. Sweet malty aroma with mild chocolate and lactos notes.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Tap at the Corona location. Deep dark mahogony, almost black with a tan head. Very mild aroma, clean and roasty. Very smooth, creamy mouthfeel, light roastiness, very drinkable. Good stuff.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
ON cask at Taps; I am surprised all these beers don’t have more ratings. Color was pretty nice; a darkish, red tinted brown. Aroma of caramel, oats, vanilla, lactic sweetness, wood and cocoa. Flavor had a good amount of sweetness, oats, caramel, cocoa and vanilla. Not too strong of roasted presnce. Good for the style.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Date: 12/03/2006
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
clear dark red, wispy tan head, creamy body, roasted and chocolate aroma, rich chocolate flavor, light bitterness,
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.4/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **+/4
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