12oz bottle picked up at Total Wine in Spokane
Pours cloudy ruby with a small pink head, good lacing. Aroma of chocolate, dark fruit, raisins and vanilla. Mouthfeel is silky, toasted malts, chocolate, nutty with a mild citrus bitterness
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Bottle from Total Wine in Sacramento, CA. Pours very ruddy copper with an arguably pink tinged otherwise white head. Aroma is sort of sugary chocolate. Med body or nearly. Flavor is sort of chocolate, not sure about beets. It’s kind of like weird cake frosting. Not dry, but not bitter. Except maybe chocolate bitter. It’s very different, and I wouldn’t want a sixer in an evening, but points for doing something very different. It is in the cake universe, flavorwise.

12 ounce nitro bottle into pint glass, bottled on 2/1/2017. Pours slightly hazy ruby red, light pinkish/orange color with a 2 finger dense and rocky light pink head with fantastic retention, that reduces to a large cap that lasts. Thick creamy lacing coats the glass as you drink. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of milk chocolate, cocoa, vanilla, cream, cake batter, bread dough, and candi sugar; with lighter notes of berries, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of bready malt, cocoa, vanilla, sugar, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with solid strength. Taste of big milk chocolate, cocoa, vanilla, cream, cake batter, bread dough, and candi sugar; with lighter notes of berries, herbal, floral, grass, and yeast/roasted earthiness. Light herbal/spicy hop and cocoa/roasted bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of milk chocolate, cocoa, vanilla, cream, cake batter, bread dough, candi sugar, herbal, and yeast/roasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of bready malt, cocoa, vanilla, sugar, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with a great malt/cocoa bitter/sweet balance, and zero cloying/astringent flavors after the finish. Light dryness from lingering hop/roast bitterness, increasing through the glass. Low carbonation and light-medium body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/grainy, and slightly silky/sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is nice. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.5%. Overall this is a very good golden oatmeal stout style. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of bready malt, cocoa, vanilla, sugar, and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth and easy to drink. Just a bit too increasingly bitter/drying; but it was still very enjoyable and had lot of nice well balanced cake-like flavors.

Draft nitro @ Ballast Point - Little Italy, San Diego, CA. Pours a deep red color with a small off-white head. Has a roasted malty chocolate and vanilla aroma. Roasted malty chocolate and vanilla flavor. Has a roasted malty chocolate vanilla finish.

Clear cranberry colored pour with a tiny white head and good retention. Minimal lacing. Smooth and creamy mouthfeel. Thin for the style. Chocolate flavor up front. It doesn’t look like a stout but the taste is there. The appearance plays mind games. Close your eyes, drink and enjoy.

Bottle from Albertsons. Pours out colored like CranberrySour juice, pinkish head. Sweet, cake smell. Taste is also a bit sweet, vanilla, frosting. Dry finish, taste fades fast. Interesting novelty, but not worth the hefty price tag.