Angry Minnow Oakys Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Angry Minnow
Style: Sweet Stout
Hayward, Wisconsin USA

On tap at the GTMW. Opaque brown with a thin tan head that moderately laces my glass. Aroma of roasted malt and mild chocolate. Taste of mild roasted malt, light chocolate and very mild oatmeal. A bit thin, kind of reminded me a bit of guinness.

On tap at the Wisconsin Micro-Brewer’s Beer Fest. Poured deep brown with a short-lived cap of beige head. The aroma opened with an odd sourness and vegetal notes over toasted chocolate and a pinch of vanilla.. it lost the weirdness as it breathed, but it still wasn’t all that good. The flavor had mostly black patent maltage at the core joined by some baker’s chocolate.. vanilla and a pinch of caramel came through on the finish. Medium-bodied with some sourness on the palate that definitely didn’t help.. otherwise smooth feel. This seemed slightly off.

GTMW 2008: Basically opaque with a tan creamy head and left good lace. The aroma has notes of lactic acid, oatmeal, chocolate and roasted malts, some charred malt, prune and coffee esters as well. At first there was a sour like twang but that soon went away leading towards a solid sweet malt profile supported on the finish with some smoke and coffee tones, grassy hops too. The mouth feel is not has creamy has the head let on but it was not thin either. A very nice oatmeal stout all told.

Beerfest in Chilton. This was a nice sweet stout. Aroma is almost smoky. Tastes sweet with some oatmeal-like qualities in the flavor. Nice.

Pours a thick, black colour with a huge, forever rising tan head. Aroma is of dark chocolate, toffee and heavily roasted coffee beans. Taste is full, very creamy with plenty of dark fruits, chocolate, smoke and subtle oak. Named after Oaky the dog. It was a pleasure meeting him this past weekend.

Very dark beer with a thick tannish head. Strong aroma of oats and caramel malt, toffee and chocolate. Sweet malt, caramel and bready flavor. Finishes more dry. One of the better Stouts I have had in a while.

Nice dark color with a dark tan head. Fairly think body, with not much in the way of flavor. Somwhat similar to Gunniess. I didnt detect much coffee or malt. Easy drinking, not bad.

On tap
Pours a sunlight-blocking brown-black with a thick poofy tan head that never, ever ever goes away. The glass will probably have to be washed twice to get the remanats of the head out of the bottom of the glass. Rich aroma of dark, dry grains, rich toffee, roasty bitterness and perhaps a bit of butterscotch that might come across as a flaw in about any other beer but actually seems to work with this one. Flavor is rich and grainy, creamy, nutty, roasty, with bits of coffee and toffee. For a beer this big, the mouthfeel is surprisingly thin and watery. Still, this is easily the best of the tap lineup that was available during my visit.