Double Barrel Oatmeal Stout
Emmetts Brewing Co. in West Dundee, Illinois, United States 🇺🇸
Stout Regular|
Score
6.95
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sample at the Palatine brewpub. The beer pours a flat black color with a medium creamy khaki head that diminishes slowly. Rings of lacing on the glass. Aroma of roasted malt and cocoa. Medium, smooth body with flavors of malt, roasted coffee and bittersweet chocolate. The finish is sweet chocolate at first with a mildly bitter coffee aftertaste. Straightforward and an alright Stout overall.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Draft at Emmett’s, Downers Grove. Menu still shows this as an oatmeal stout, and it certainly seems like it to me. Nice nitro pour yields a black body, paler at first from a brief Guinness cascade. Cappuccino colored foam shows dark swirls. Nice mocha coffee smell presented in a proper English pint glass instead of a shaker. Sweet creamy taste and texture to start, thanks to oatmeal and nitro. Some roast coffee astringency at first, but it goes away. Thin nitro mouthfeel makes this go down nice and easy, keeping me from getting filled up. Maintains a milk chocolate impression all the way down. Yeah, I’m rating this higher than the first two. It just hit me at the right time of evening.