Brewers Alley Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Brewers Alley Restaurant & Brewery
Style: Sweet Stout
Frederick, Maryland USA

A red-brown beer with a thin brown head. The aroma is sweet with primary notes of oatmeal, but also a light roasted note. The flavor is sweet malty combined with notes of oatmeal, and again a lighter note of roasted malt.

Name: Oatmeal Stout
Date: 07/15/2006
Mode: Growler
Source: Tasting, RBSG, 2006

black, thin fine beige head, roasted chocolate aroma, oily chocolate flavor, light bitterness,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.8/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4

Dark ruby with nice mocha head. Light roasty aroma. Flavor is coffee, chocolate, roasty bitter, with decent hoppiness as support. Quite rich, nice beer.

on tap-pours a disappearing tan head and dark mahogany color. Aroma is dark malt-roasty/some molasses. Taste is dark malt-coffee/roasty/some molasses, earthy hops. Dry. After taste is coffee and dry. Occasional.

Sampled on 7/15/06 at the RBSG ’06 Grand Tasting out of a growler: Pours a barely transparent dark mahogany with a thin-lacing wispy tan head. Aroma of dry earthy doughy dark malts and some milk chocolate. Body starts sweet, toasty and earthy with some chocolate chip cookie dough and a smoother toasty finish with some lingering coffee. A decent oatmeal stout.

I had to adjust the score a little for this season’s batch. This beer rocks. The aroma is of dark roast coffee with a touch of chocolate. Though very dark, this beer is not black. Hold it up to the Sun and you see a lovely crimson hue. The flavor is of darkly roasted coffee and cocoa. Perfectly balanced. Not sweet as some oatmeal stouts can be. A dry, crisp finish.

A fine stout. Good amount of roast and oatmeal in the nose, pretty much what it should be... some light smoke as well, perhaps some cream scents. Body is light, roast is heavy in the flavor, almost a creamy oatmeal quality at times. Solid beer.

RBSG 2006 - DC Grand Tasting Lineup Black, brownish with light head and lacing. Nose of vegetal roast, light asparagus and coffee. The flavor is creamy, light vanilla, some chocolate. The finish is a tough thin, decent. Needs more body and oat flavor. Nose was probably better yesterday (growler).