7.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

500ml bottle from LCB. Black pour with small beige to tanned head. Aroma is clean but not subdued with roasted malt, oat, cream, raisin, plum. Taste is the same with a dose of milk chocolate. Distinctive flavours running through. Nice balance. Smooth finish. Very good example of the style; tasty.

27/06/2014. BATH BREW HOUSE, 14 James Street West, BATH, Bath & North East Somerset, England (CITY PUBS)

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Cask at the Pup and Duckling, Solihull. Poured a clear dark brown colour with a lasting frothy tan head. The aroma is roasty malt, liqourice. The flavour is moderate liqourice bitter, with a smooth, rich, roasty, light caramel, chocolate, light dry ashtray, liqourice bitter palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

6.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

2/12/2020. Bottle sample courtesy of SHIG, cheers. Pours very dark brown with a bubbly pale beige head. Aroma of cooked meat, roasted malt, chocolate, ash, coffee. Moderate sweetness, light bitterness. Medium body, creamy slick texture, soft carbonation.

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Bottle: Poured a dark brown almost black with a hint of red, head is bubble beige head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, light coffee. Taste is roasted malts, chocolate, some coffee, smooth malty finish.

6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at the brewery tap (Beer Hall) in Staveley. Pours jet black with a beige head. Aroma: roasted malts, bitter coffee and a hint of chocolate. Taste: light sweet & moderate bitter, dry, light fruity, dark berries, light coffee, burnt toffee. Medium body, average carbonation, dry bitter finish

6.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

330ml bottle; BBE Jan 2021. Poured into a thistle shaped glass at home on 10th Apr 2020. Nice dark brown/black body, tanned topping, looked good in the glass. Roasted toasted maltiness in both the aroma and taste, typical Oatmeal Stout attributes and easy to drink.

6.2

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Thin spotty head left a cover on a near black still body. Coal, burnt & roasted aroma. Medium bodied, smooth on the palate with a clean back. Malt, smoke, tobacco, roasted, nutty & berry tastes. Nice one.

6.9

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Stout with a thin head, a bit of hop in the smell. More bitter hop than I'd expect from an oatmeal stout but there's still a smoothness there along with coffee and dark chocolate and a lasting toasty finish.