Arbor Oatmeal Java Breakfast Stout

Brewed by Arbor Brewing Company Pub & Eatery
Style: Stout
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA

Deep chocolate and coffee aroma, fresh and wonderful. Head is completely dead after a moment. Hefty and still in the glass. Totally opaque. Creamy, coffee and chocolatey milk components, chalky, long bitter finish (the finish has weird multiple interweaving levels) - good but only so-so.

Good coffee color, with a little white/beige head. Seemed a bit to prone to being watery and had an interesting cofee spice that complemented the roasted malt. Wasnt very sweet, not at least what i was expecting for an oatmeal stout. Carbonation gave it a bad texture. Nothing special here, but has potential. Mildly sweet/ roasty aroma of bitters and coffee.

Really nice smooth, silky-sweet action balanced with a healthy, hearty roastiness that is edged with coffee, but not overtly so. It’s a really fine effort by ABC and better in its current incarnartion than it was in the last batch (9/13/01). They only serve it in little half pint mugs due to the high ABV, but it’s really more of a desserty, after eating kind of brew, so that seems fine.