100 Barrel Series #01 - Oatmeal Stout
Harpoon Brewery in Boston, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Milk / Sweet Regular|
Score
6.69
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Black pour in glass. Pleasant aroma of Quaker Oats, chocolates, breads and dough. Taste is smooth, albeit average for the genre. Rated 10/6/03
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12 oz bottle. Another harpoon, hah. taste like a watered down imp Stout. Pours really black with a bit of lacing. Aroma is very present - sweet coffe, caramel sweetness, and a bit of soury sweetness. Taste is very watered down with a thin body. It better than most of their offerings.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Nose of a little chocolate with a samll vanilla hint to go with the roasty malts; transparent very dark brown, with virtually no head; watery body with a little coffee and chocolate.
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Pours deep brown into a pint glass. Sweet chocolate and clean earth aromas. Very little head. Upfront chocolate. Thin with a lasting, tingly light hop finish.
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2006 bottle. This particular bottle I had on 5/20/06, though I’ve had a number of other bottles thus far. Dark, heavily filtered black body has some magenta highlights. Head races for the edges and barely stays at ring. Light roast, coffee and chocolate in the nose are all reserved, backed by a hefty amount of water. Just no oomph or depth of sweetness in the nose. Not that it has to be a heavily sweet beer, but the heavy filtration just removes all substance and leaves it so lean. Old coffee stays dry on the finish, with lightly crunchy vanilla-flavored coffee beans. The flavor is just washed out. Heavily watery coffee, more vanilla-coffee beans, dry, crunchy and showing no malt sweetness. Nothing to sink your teeth in to, and even if approached as a session, the flavor dosent go that deep. Like usual, fairly flawless brewing that goes nowhere thanks to the filtration and pasteurization. Lightly dry, oaty-wheaty-like dryness and a hint of buttercream sweetness, but it’s fleeting at best. Lower than usual carbonation out of the bottle, but after having the witbier, keller and saison, I don’t know why they continue to filter any of these 100 barrel series beers. No alcohol apparency. Didn’t finish the bottle. Was significantly better when the bottles just hit the shelves, obviously, but this bottle even sat in the cooler since getting to the liquor store, so there’s no excuse why it can’t have a 2 or 3 month refrigerator-life.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
100 Barrel Series: Pours a very dark brown color that shows just a bit of ruby light. Thick and somewaht foamy light tan head that lasted pretty well. Thin rings of lacing throughout the glass. The aroma is very roasty with sweet malt in the background. Smooth, rich body but a little on the thin side for a Stout, it almost seemed to be leaning toward a Porter at times. The flavor is toasted malt, coffee and a hint of chocolate. The finish is dry with the same roasted character and a touch of hops. Overall a very smooth Stout that would be top-tier if it were just a bit more robust.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Very dark burgundy-brown colour. Big rocky head. Aroma is roasty, with some toffeeish, chewy maltiness. Roasty body, coffeeish and nutty. Like St. Ambroise on one of its "bad" days.