Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout

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This Oatmeal Stout from one of my favorite breweries, Samuel Smith, is a Tadcaster, England product and runs Samuel Smith’s pubs throughout the United Kingdom. This brewery was founded way back in 1758 by Humphery Smith. This Stout is 5% ABV and is fermented on Yorkshire squares. This stout pours black with a slow and creamy two-finger beige. The aroma is oaty, sweet, and dark. The flavor has sweet and dark oatmeal notes and is creamy. This beer has a slightly full mouthfeel. Then, this dark stout finishes with a nice bittersweet oatmeal note. But that is more on the sweet side than the bitter. The aftertaste is creamy with a light sweetness that lingers till you take another sip. This is an A+ delicious beer. I highly recommend Samuel Smith’s oatmeal Stout. This has a smoothness that really adds to its overall deliciousness. It doesn’t have a strong alcohol presence like more craft versions of this beer style, which makes this beer more enjoyable. But this is just one very delicious beer in a great lineup of delicious Samuel Smith beer. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly. Cheers!

Burial Beer Co. Skillet Donut Stout

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Burial Beer Co., Skillet Donut Stout makes this beer in Asheville, North Carolina. This beer is 8% ABV. This is an oatmeal Stout with lactose, coffee, nine barley malts, a scoop of oats, molasses, and milk sugars. The coffee comes from Guatemala, Ethiopia, and Columbia. This stout pours a deep, black, thick, with a two-finger creamy beige head. The aroma is bittersweet, malty, roasted, and deep. The flavor is roasted coffee, and bittersweet malt, with a syrup flavor. There is a full feeling in the mouth. Then you get a bitterness with a rounded sweetness and coffee for a finish. The aftertaste is like coffee with cream that lingers just a little. This beer may sound like a big beer, but it drinks like it isn’t. This beer is good, I give this Skillet Donut Stout an A+. You should be drinking this beer. It would go well with a nice chocolate dessert, waffles, French toast, or pancakes. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Devils Logic #8 Oatmeal Coffee Stout

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This local Devil’s Logic Brewing (Charlotte, North Carolina) beer is #8 Oatmeal Coffee Stout. This stout is 5.4%. Devil’s Logic conditions this beer on Enderly Coffee Company’s Brazilian roast. This beer pours a black color with a steady two-finger tan head. The aroma is sweet with chocolate, malty, and a roasted coffee smell. The taste is sweet, roasted coffee, chocolate, malted, and oatmeal. This dark stout has a medium body. Then this beer finishes with a sweet roasted chocolate flavor. The aftertaste is roasted chocolate coffee. This beer is not as full on with the flavors but they are good. I give #8 Oatmeal Coffee Stout a B-. The flavors are medium and not as strong as other beers like this one. I’d still recommend it for the fact that it is good and not so big on the ABV. It is well-balanced in flavor. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Josephs Baur Brewing Company Stockyard Oatmeal Stout

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This Stockyard Oatmeal Stout is from Josephs Baur Brewing Company in San Jose, California. Josephs Baur Brewing Company Trader Joe’s beer brewing operation. This ber is 5.2% ABV. This is in the traditional Irish Stout style. This Stout pours black with a two-finger beige head that fizzes away quickly. The aroma is sweet, with coffee, roasted notes, and malts. The flavor is similar to the aroma. There are flavors of light coffee, sweetness, roasted malts, and a weird ash-like taste. Yes, I know what ash tastes like. This beer is medium on the mouth. Then it comes to a semi-sweet and light roasted finish. The aftertaste is okay. It is roasted malt there. I’ve had better Oatmeal Stouts than this Stockyard. Samual Smith Oatmeal Stout is way better than this. This Stockyard Oatmeal Stout is a D+. I did finish this beer but I didn’t think is was great. It’s a boring light on flavor type of oatmeal stout. I really didn’t feel much of the oats on this stout. I would not drink this. Please stay safe, be kind to each other, and remember to enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Royal Bliss Brewing Co. Royal Treatment Oatmeal Stout

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The last beer I had from Royal Bliss Brewing Co. was a complete was and a total drain poor. It had gone rank. This beer is Royal Treatment Oatmeal Stout, 5.8% ABV brewed in Dallas, North Carolina. It pours a deep dark black color with a thick beige head that sticks and fades slowly. The aroma is roasted chocolatey, and there is coffee and sweetness. The flavor does follow the nose. You taste a chocolate-covered coffee bean. Then it has a semi-sweet coffee and chocolate finish. The aftertaste is a bitter-sweet coffee cocoa flavor. This stout has a full body mouthfeel. Royal Bliss Brewing Co Royal Treatment is a good beer and makes up for the last beer from this brewery I had. I give it an A+. It is smooth and flavorful. I recommend it! Please be kind, stay safe and enjoy responsibly!

Throwback Thursday: Mother Earth Brewing Old Neighborhood Oatmeal Stout

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Originally post December, 29th 2013.

Over the years brewers have been putting different things into beer to make a new taste sensation and/or flavor profile. But one ingredient has been used for quite some time now. Oatmeal is one item that is widely used in porters and stouts for a nice touch of sweetness and texture. He is a local North Carolina example of an oatmeal porter, Mother Earth’s Old Neighborhood, 5.5% ABV. This is almost a sessionable oatmeal porter ABV 5.5% ABV. Old Neighborhood pours a deep black color with dark ruby red edges, with a nice big three finger beige head what sticks around quite nicely and forms good looking lacing. I saw no light coming through and I found there to be very little carbonation bubbles. The aroma is like a nice sweet bowl of oatmeal on a cold day with hints of roasted malts. The taste is at first slightly roasted then comes a hint of the sweetness from the oatmeal. I did find a tiny bitterness from the roasted right before the sweetness. The mouthfeel is smooth with a slight creaminess and has a semi-sweet finish with a hint of a roasted character. The after taste is slightly sweeter still with a nice roasted quality. Overall Old Neighborhood Oatmeal Porter is a solid B+ beer. It is easier to drink than others in this style and has a great balance of flavors, and isn’t overdone on one particular thing. I would like to have this one again. So go out and try Mother Earth’s Old Neighborhood Oatmeal Porter and see what you think of it. Cheers! Please enjoy responsibly!

Ninkasi Brewing Company Vanilla Oatis Oatmeal Stout

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Ninkasi Brewing Company Vanilla Oatis Oatmeal Stout, 7.0% ABV and 50 IBUs came a part of a Jet Gift Baskets, http://www.jetgiftbaskets.com. I will post a review of the basket or bouquet in its entirety soon. Vanilla Oatis is in Eugene Oregon with a blend of vanilla, coffee, chocolate, and roasted malts. Ninkasi uses whole vanilla beans which are added in the final stage of brewing much like dry-hopping a beer. Vanilla Oatis pours thick black with a three-finger tan head that never seems to dissipate leaving behind nice lacing, that gives off burnt sweet roasted notes with touches of chocolate and coffee with a bit of dryness. You get a nice sweet roasted vanilla flavor followed by ant oat flavor with a dry nuttiness that finishes with a semi-sweet roasted flavor and a sweet semi-dry oatmeal aftertaste with a thick full mouthfeel that coats the entirety of your mouth. This wasn’t as big a beer as I thought and was quite delicious getting an A-. Ninkasi Brewing Company Vanilla Oatis Oatmeal Stout really is a solid example of an oatmeal stout, one I recommend you try. Please enjoy responsibly! Cheers!

Throwback Thursday: Samuel Smith Brewery Organic Oatmeal Stout

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One of my top favorite breweries is, here again, it’s Samuel Smith and this is their celebrated Oatmeal Stout, 5.0% ABV. I’ve loved every beer I’ve had from Samuel Smith. This style of beer doesn’t really use actual oatmeal in the brewing process, but oats are used in the mash.  They give smoothness and a touch of sweetness to the beer. This Samuel Smith pours an opaque black color with a big three finger tan rocky head. The head stays for a while that leads into very wonderful lacing. This beer looks so great just sitting there. I did find a little amount of light coming through the pint glass with a small pack of carbonation bubbles. The aroma on Oatmeal Stout is sweet with the scent of oats and bittersweet chocolate. There is a nice roasted aroma too. The aroma reminds me of fresh and sweet homemade oatmeal. The taste is nice and you first get the lightly sweet oats hitting your tongue, followed by light chocolate that has a bit of a roasted noted around it. The taste on this makes every sip you want another. The mouthfeel is medium and a bit on the rich side. Samuel Smith Oatmeal Stout finishes nicely with oats and a hint of sweetness that makes for a nice semi-dry and sweet aftertaste. I have to find a Samuel Smiths beer is bad, their beer is never lower than a C+, and there is only one, their cider. But this, their Oatmeal Stout is getting A+ from me. I would have this over and over again. This is a very tasty beer, and does not go overboard with the oats or other ingredients; it’s all balanced well into a great beer. I highly recommend this beer! Please go out and try this and see just how great Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout really is, you might just love it! Cheers! Please enjoy responsibly!