Black Pumpkin Oatmeal Stout
Buffalo Bills Brewery in Hayward, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Oatmeal Regular|
Score
7.35
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7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bomber from the Woodland CostCo. Pours brown with a tan head. Aroma of pumpkin cookies with a few chocolate chips tossed in. Med body or better. Flavor is smooth dark chocolatey malt with lots of pies spice. This really blends a lot of things together in a smooth, well integrated fashion. The "pumpkin" beer of the year perhaps. Finishes less than dry, spicy, but not really bitter.
Tried
on 05 Oct 2016
at 20:04
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
22 ounce bottle into tulip glass; no bottle dating, but is a recent seasonal release. Pours opaque dark brown/black color with a 1-2 finger dense khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings around the glass. Aromas of big pumpkin, gingerbread, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, graham cracker, toasted oats, and chocolate; with lighter notes of coffee, cocoa, molasses, herbal, pine, and roast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of dark/roast/bready malt, pumpkin/spices, and light-moderate earthy hop notes; with great strength. Taste of big pumpkin, gingerbread, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, graham cracker, toasted oats, and chocolate; with lighter notes of coffee, cocoa, molasses, herbal, pine, and roast/toasted earthiness. Light-moderate herbal/pine hop and roast bitterness on the finish; with lingering notes of pumpkin, gingerbread, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, graham cracker, toasted oats, chocolate, herbal, pine, and roast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Damn nice complexity, robustness, and balance dark/roast/bready malt, pumpkin/spices, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and no astringent flavors after the finish. Light dryness from bitterness, increasing through the glass. Medium carbonation and medium-plus body; with a very smooth, creamy, fairly silky, and lightly sticky/chalky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Minimal warming alcohol for 7.9%. Overall this is an excellent pumpkin stout. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance dark/roast/bready malt, pumpkin/spices, and light-moderate earthy hop flavors; very smooth and easy to drink for the ABV. A very enjoyable offering.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Oct 2016
at 21:30
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
Bottle pour from Friar Tuck. Appearance is opaque black with small dark brown at edges of glass, 2 finger-width light brown head with decent retention, fair lacing. Aroma is pumpkin spices along with chocolate and roasted malts. Taste is roasted malt with dark fruit, pumpkin spices, chocolate. Palate is medium bodied with creamy texture, soft-to-average carbonation, finish like the taste. Overall, a really nice pumpkin beer and a pretty good oatmeal stout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jul 2016
at 21:11
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
22 oz bomber from Country Club Liquors. Nose is light cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, and chocolate. Black with a big heavy lacing tan head. Flavor is lightly sweet, pumpkin spicy, and a malty chocolate backbone.
Tried
on 06 Apr 2016
at 18:24
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
22oz bomber. Deep brown black body, respectable beige head. Pretty Stout-forward, the pumpkin and spices are rather mellow and balance out well. Nothing particularly enthralling about it, but nothing off or subpar either. Solid enough offering, a little tame with the pumpkin.
Tried
on 29 Mar 2016
at 23:39
8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle, shared with my folks before Thanksgiving dinner, pours a deep brown color with a persistent tan head. One of the best pumpkin pie smells I can recall... Light spices, pumpkin, and faint cocoa. Taste is lightly sweet with a moderate amount of cinnamon and nutmeg. Soothing with the light roast and cocoa. Really quite nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Nov 2015
at 14:58
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
22 oz. bottle. It pours black with a tan head. The aroma has some strong cinnamon, ginger and allspice in that order. Maybe a hint of squash and a decent amount of hard roasted malt. The flavor is thankfully, less spiced and more roasted with some decent rich notes of caramel and cocoa. The finish is still hard roasted, but it falls short of being too ashy or dirty. The spices are pretty well balanced, but still a tad much for my palate. Overall, this was a solid pumpkin stout as they go... I think the oatmeal helped give it more body to support the roast and spice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2015
at 22:09
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Pour is a black with a huge overflowing tan head. Aroma is full on spice. Cinnamon and nutmeg are all over the place. Flavor is a nice rich and creamy roasted malt and the spice then come in to make this a super rich roasted oat and spiced beer. You get both the oatmeal stout aspect and also the pumpkin beer aspect. This was a solid beer. Plenty roasted and spiced.
Tried
on 19 Sep 2015
at 18:59