Trafalgar Smoked Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Trafalgar Brewing
Style: Stout
Oakville, Canada

Murky dark brown. Smells thin, with hints of char. Thin, slight roast and chocolate. Not much going on, certainly no smoke.

My Bottom Line:
There is a lot smokiness to cover up this Stout’s meager body and malt development, but the flaccid mouthfeel and inherent ash-like roastiness tend to crop up once in a while.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-There is barely a ring of foam to decorate the blackened dark brown.
-Some dark chocolate can be found within the smoke.
-Carbonation is nearly absent, which greatly detracts from the experience and exposes the beer’s flaws quite nicely.
-Some roasted malt bitterness is felt in the end.
-All in all, this is still one of Trafalgar’s most flavorful brews I’ve had...

Bottle.

660 ml bottle. Deep black beer with a thick white head. The aroma is quite roasty. Thin body, chocolatey malt and a light soft roastiness. A touch of sourness. Not much oatmeal or smoke, but it’s a decent dryish stout.

A dark brown stout with a light moka head. Aroma is sweet caramel and peat. In mouth, a sweet chocolate with peated notes, butterscotch, and toffee. Overall, rather light in mouth. But he, it ain’t infected! LCBO.

Strong roasted malt in the nose along with some raisin/plum fruitiness and some sulfur but I really can’t find even a hint of smoke. Clear deep garnet brown coloured body sports a very shy white head that recedes almost instantly to a slight collar. Strong cabbagey DMS in the flavour but no smoke. Roast is quite apparent as well. Thin, dry and astringent with watery texture and low carbonation that is short-lived. Bottle (LCBO at Summerhill, Nov-07).

Bottle. Sampled at BeerBistro, 2007 Golden Tap Awards. Opaque reddish-brown, with a tiny off-white head. Smells sweet and cheap, like root beer syrup, some green hops. Taste - like stale cola, dry stale hops and weeds - bleah. Syrupy and still with a bitter, slightly nasty aftertaste. Not very good - avoid.

A smokey, lighter bodied stout. Not reflective of a thicker oatmeal stout, but not bad, and certainly was drinkable over a long lunch.

Bottle 650ml
Appearance :Clear ruby brown with fine white contrasting top.3+
Nose :Chocolate, roasts with woody accents. Not as clean as some stouts go. 6-
Flavour/Palate:
Thin base , quiet harsh texture with remote hint of roasted malt. More body, better malt base is the right way to do it. Pretty label is only good for first buy.