Oatmeal Stout

Bottle from Half Time. Pours black with a 4 finger fizzy/foamy dark tan head. Aroma is sweetish burnt malt with a chocolate lilt. Med body with fizzy carb. Flavor is not all that sweet. Theres a lot of dark malt flavor, with mere hints of chocolate and coffee. There’s a dryish/cereal aspect in the finish. Not bad, just nothing I can previously recall.

Deep rich brown coloured body with an almost fully-opaque glow. Nice thinnish (one centimetre) tan head tops the beer. Aroma of meat, mushrooms, caramel, raisins and a touch of concord grapes - interesting. Full-bodied; Effervescent mouthful with a sweet potent kick of grapes and sugars, not even caramelised, but strong hints of nuts and light malt at the tail end. Aftertaste is relatively mild with only sweetness and a touch of malt at the very end. Overall, not much of a ’typical’ oatmeal stout - more of a sweet stout as the style shows here on RateBeer, but a relatively mild and underwhelming beer, even for this style. Worth trying if you like stouts and want to try something new - it’s not bad at all, just a bit typical for the smallish brewery and actual style of beer (not what the label pretends). I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased from Oliver’s Beverage in Albany, New York on 04-September-2010, sampled at home in Washington on 14-September-2010.

Pours black with thin head. taste is of oates toffee some maltiness but body is pretty watery. slighty sweet with little finish. certainly not what the commercial description listed above boasts but fine enough effort from a brewery in NY no one knows of

Sampled at SAVOR 2010. Pours a watery, opaque black with some thin, off white head. Nice, sweet, malty aroma, oats, grains. Flavor is sweet, sugar, tasted like under attenuated wort. Finish is water.