St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by McAuslan Brewing
Style: Stout
Montreal, Canada

341 ml bottle. Pours dark black with a mocha beige head. Strong notes espresso, coffee, chocolate . My favorite stout to date . Really good

Dark opaque brown with a thick creamy beige head and solid lacing. Aroma of cocoa powder and burnt coffee beans. Tastes of bitter chocolate and caramel, not much of a finish, which was the only thing preventing a 4.5 taste rating. Positively chewy, excellent body. Classic example of the style, well worth seeking out.

Bottle, poured a coffee black into a chalice. Small sudsy head which simmered to a ring around the glass. Aroma of light roasted malts, meal and liquorice. Taste is a slight roast, dark chocolate espresso with some light chalky bitterness. Espresso oatmeal body, a little thin which as it warms up is tasting pretty good.

Beautiful stout on draft in Toronto. Nice balance of coffee, hops, chocolate and malts. Extremely drinkable. Excellent.

Dark look, black in color, decent tan colored head. The smell is roasty, oats, coffee, chocolate, slight sweetness, and malts. The taste is slight bitterness, coffee, chocolate, roast, and malts.

Bottle, $2.75 at Wine Warehouse in Charlottesville. Pours black with a brown head. Aroma of sweet malts. Flaor is dark chocolate and flowers. Finishes bitter.

Pours jet-ink black into the glass, with a nice thick mocha-tan head that reduces to a cap, leaving sticky suds lacing. The nose is all about roasted bitter chocolate. Flavors of bitter chocolates, anise, roasted malt, licorice, cocoa, and some light, well-complementary bitters to finish the pull. The body is extremely smooth, with subtle carbonation that well suits. The mouthfeel is complex, yet goes down super easily. Superb stout from McAuslan!

Location: 11.5 oz bottle from State Line, 11/13/09

Aroma: It has a strong brandy/boozy feel to it, along with that is some coffee, bitter chocolate, smoke, and roasted malts
Appearance: It pours a deep black color with a brown head that leaves a thin remnant and spotty lace through the duration
Flavor: The taste of this beer is dominated by the roasted malts and coffee with some licorice and smoke in there too
Palate: A smooth beer, though it doesn’t have that much body to it, especially for this style, its slightly thin
Overall Impression: It says Oatmeal Stout on the bottle, but I didn’t get a lot of oats. Mostly, more of a coffee/roasted stout from what I could taste. Anyway, it was quite different from what I was expecting from the nose, but still pretty good. A nice, enjoyable, and flavorful beer, it isn’t quite as good as the reputation would have lead me to believe, but still very solid indeed.