Can via Beer 52 sub. Pours black with a tan head. Aroma: roast malts, chocolate, cocoa. Taste: light to moderate sweet & bitter, roast, oats, chocolate, little burnt note. Light to medium body with frothy carbonation.

On tap at Man in the Moon. Black with a medium tan head. Mild with roasted malt, coffee, some chocolate and notes of fruit. Quite thin body.

12 ounce can into pint glass, canned on 1/5/2018. Pours nearly opaque dark brown/black color with a 2 finger fairly dense and rocky khaki head with awesome retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Nice dense soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a fair amount of streaming carbonation. Fantastic appearance. Aromas of dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, nuttiness, toasted oats, and dark/brown bread; with lighter notes of dark fruit, smoke, char, herbal, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. A bit fruity/yeasty aromas, but not overwhelming. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with solid strength. Taste of big dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, nuttiness, toasted oats, and dark/brown bread; with lighter notes of dark fruit, smoke, char, herbal, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/spicy hop and roast/char bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of dark chocolate, cocoa, coffee, caramel, brown sugar, toasted oats, dark/brown bread, light smoke/char, herbal, pepper, and yeast/roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a great roast/hop bitter/sweet balance; and no acrid/astringent flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from lingering hop/char bitterness. Medium carbonation and medium-plus body; with a very smooth, creamy/silky/bready, and lightly sticky/chalky mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 5.4%. Overall this is a delicious oatmeal stout. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/roast/bready malt and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the mellowly bitter/charred finish. Very flavorful for the ABV. Nicely rich English malt complexity, balancing earthy hops, and restrained English yeast fruitiness. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.

Bottle. Pours black with thick tan head. Nose and taste of roast chocolate malt, vanilla, burnt oatmeal, burnt coffee, chalky malt and burnt barley/grain. Medium body.