Well toasted stout. Can't find the oysters, but silty enough. Smooth, nice and light, with plenty of flavors and a tiny bit of hoppyness.

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Bottle at home. Current label reads "Chesapeake Stout" instead of "Oyster Stout". Black with light tan head. Dry roasted malts, barley, charcoal and ash, light salmiak. Light sweet and bitter with a hint of salt. About medium body, malty and silky, light chalky, low carbonation. Dry. Soft sweet roasty finish. There’s a bit of a watery and thin part in the aroma. Otherwise a pretty nice stout.

0.33 l bottle from Pivoteka, Zagreb. Shared with Višnja 666 and Goran. Thanks! Very dark brown to black, small beige head. Roasty, dark malts, brown sugar, wood, some licorice. Very dry and roasty. Creamy texture, medium body, medium carbonation, roasty finish. It was ok, but really nothing special.

Oyster stout, from a bottle at Amsterdam’s BeerTemple. Loosely structured, pale greyish beige, nicely lacing head with moussy, irregular edges over a very dark bronze beer with blackish appearance. Aroma of salmiak, salted dried plums, bitter chocolate, walnut, minerals, leather, dried porcini, liquorish candy, cigar ashes, dried seaweed, vague smoked herring, dust, dried sage. Dried fruitiness in the onset, hints of fig and dried blue plum, vague baked banana and sourish blackcurrant, quickly followed by a salty, seaweed-like edge, fizzy carbo (a bit sharp for the style), deeply toasted malt bitterness with a softer nutty aspect, more bitter and dry than sweet, dry finish with still that subtle salty flavour, some bitter chocolate and coffeeish roastedness, tea-ish and spicy herbal hop bitter touch, dash of warming alcohol in the very end. Saltiness from the oysters is apparent - which should be the case in this particular dry stout variant - and in that very particular context, this is the best beer I’ve had so far. But then, I haven’t had a whole lot of oyster stouts yet...

2 month old bottle A: Clear tawny reddish black pour with a fast falling tan sudsy head. S: Coffee and bitter chocolate smell. Faint salty sweetness. T: Bitter and roasty with herbal hops, hints of chocolate and coffee. A faintly sweet earthy aftertaste. M: Medium body with prickly carbonation and fairly clean dry finish. O: Not bad but probably not something I'd buy again.

Bottle pour into tulip glass from Julio’s Liquors. Aroma is roasted malt, mild chocolate and sea water/oyster. Appearance is dark black, almost opaque, with dark red at edges and bottom of glass, mild sparkle at edges, 1/2 finger width tan head with poor retention and trace lacing. Taste is as aroma with sweet/bitter contribution of roasted malts even more forward than hints of chocolate and oyster than aroma; late smoke/ash. Palate is medium bodied with thick texture, average to lively carbonation, and mildly roasted bitter crisp finish. Overall, pretty true to style but the oysters don’t add much.

Pours black with an off-white head.Nose shows caramel, bready malt and soft roast. Fairly sweet-smelling.Similar flavours, a bit more emphasis on a liquorice and roast malt note. Some sweetness remains, balancing things nicely.