Danny McGovern's Oatmeal Stout
Marshall Wharf Brewing Company in Belfast, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Milk / Sweet Regular|
Score
6.87
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Tap at Novare Res just chosen quickly to get my bearings. Fine rich brown pour fluffy beige head. Nose is light oats and chocolate. Tastes of un assertive flavors chocolate, root beer, earth, lactose. Creamy palate easy drinker
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draught (carb and nitro) at 3 Tides since debut.
Inky black body with a large, moderately well-retained tan-grey head.
Bright, poignant coffee-like roasted notes in the nose mix with softer cream and chocolate malt notes with light minerality and a dry end to it. As with most oatmeal stouts, especially the nitro version, not a huge amount of aroma, but certainly no alcohol or flaws, either.
The flavor is, like many of their stouts, quite challengingly acidic/very heavily roasty. Certainly there’s plentiful malt depth and a soft, creamy texture, but it’s got a lot of the flavor that I associate with heavy melanoidin-rich doppelbocks (a strong fruity-acidity). Just intensely dark malt driven here. I guess this is a heavy addition of unmalted, roasted barley. Dark berries, plumskins, green coffee beans...that sort of thing. Light chocolate sweetness emerging, with warming. A sipper for sure, and very assertive. Very well-made stuff, despite my preference for lighter beers.