Wynkoop Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout

Brewed by Wynkoop Brewing Company
Style: Foreign Stout
Denver, Colorado USA

Serve in English pint, Snifter, Tulip

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12 oz can (from 2 pack, of course). Pours dark brown black with a smallish fizzy dark brown head that goes to a thin film that leaves a little lacing.

The aroma is sweet fudgy bakers chocolate and some roast with maybe a hint of salt.

The flavor is sweet fudgy chocolate with some acidic roast and a bit of saltiness. The mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with low carbonation.

Overall, chocolate salty balls! Surprisingly good, but a bit too sweet.

Ahhhh you crazy Denver fuckheads. This is actually pretty tasty. Pour from a can. Roasted malt, nice mouthfeel, and very well done. I would like to have this next to a non balls version to see if I could pick out the umami.

12 oz can from Wilbur’s. Pours black with a light brown head. Roasted malty aroma, dark chocolate, coffee and salted nuts. Similar flavor, interesting and unique, kind of hard to pinpoint the subtleties. Medium body with a soft and slick feel. Light smoky, salty, dry finish. Pretty tasty! Kind of awesome it’s sold in a "2-pack"

can, black oily pour, roasted malts heavy aroma 7 flavor, chocolate, coffee notes, slight touch of licorice. Oily mouthfeel, medium bodied. Much better than expected

Thanks to match1112. An odd want of mine. 12 oz can into a tulip glass. I’ll refrain from using ball puns in my review. A - Pours a jet black body. Mocha foam forms initially but fizzles away in a soda like fashion. Sits very still and a swirl does nothing to get the foam going again. S - Roasted malts, chocolate, coffee and some salt. It smells pretty good. Can’t say I detect any hints of testicles. T - Again with the roasted malts and char, chocolate and some coffee notes, and then a salty finish. Pretty similar to any legit oyster stout that I’ve had. Medium bodied and lightly syrupy. O - Not bad I suppose. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this one. Beyond the novelty factor its a lightly salted and roasty stout.

thanks to wchesser for this can. poured into a tulip at 55 degrees. thin brown head forms but doesnt stick around for long. smell is kinda cola and black licorice which i dont really enjoy. taste and mouthfeel is pretty good though. not very creamy but still nice with a good roasty flavor. nothing really special about this beer but its decent.

Jet black with reddish tan head. Not any profoundly unique aroma other than roast malt. Thick chewy palate. Flavors of port, tobacco and coffee with a chalky finish. I’m not really tasting any bull testicles but then again I"ve never eaten bull testicles before. But I’m not tasting any meatiness.

On tap at Wynkoop. Pour is deep brown, almost black with a huge brown head and great lacing. Big roast, dark cocoa, graham crackers, light vanilla, somewhat earthy, bready, and grassy aroma. Taste is cocoa nibs, espresso, briney, rich lacto flavor, earthy hops, somewhat dirty, caramel, and brown sugar with a slightly bitter/acidic bitter finish. Creamy mouthfeel with sod carbonation. This is some seriously tasty stuff.

Can from Aaron. The balls on that guy...Black in color with a khaki head. Roasted malt, dark chocolate, coffee, and a bit of dark fruit on the nose. Light sweetness of burnt sugar. A bit earthy. The flavor is roasted malt, coffee, and dark chocolate. A little bit bitter and acidic. Some dark fruit and burnt sugar sweetness. Maybe a hint of smoke.

Can. Head is initially small, frothy, brown, mostly diminishing. Body is opaque black (flashlight tested). Aroma is moderately malty (roasted/burnt grain/coffee, dark chocolate/fudge, scorched sugar), lightly hoppy (flowers), with notes of ink, shoe polish, blackberry, vanilla, alcohol, light note of smoke. Flavor is moderately to heavily sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly to moderately sweet, lightly acidic, moderately bitter. Medium to full body, creamy/oily texture, lively carbonation, moderately alcoholic. Well I’ll be...this is actually good, despite the dumb gimmick. Wynkoop made this?! Bizarre. Quite complex and enticing in the nose...roasty, chocolaty, smoky, fruity...it’s got more depth than most stouts (the ink and shoe polish effects are positives for me...phenolic but not in an unpleasant way). It’s quite sweet but not syrupy/cloying...it could definitely use more bitterness to help balance it, though. Totally opaque, too, a pretty rare thing. I don’t have a lot of confidence that Wynkoop is finally honing their skills across the board, but this is a surprisingly cool beer that I would probably buy again.