Dominion Oak Barrel Stout

Brewed by Coastal Brewing Company
Style: Stout
Annapolis, Maryland USA

(Tap at Hop Devil, NY) Black body with a medium off-white head. Smells like a hot-chocolate. In mouth the body was very thin and a bit lactic. Not very tasty with milk-chocolate, some vanilla and some soy sauce. Even the roasted malts were barely noticeable. Very light. Slightly below average stout. I didn’t notice any of the flavours associated with oak barrels. Given its flavour spectrum you’d think it spent more time in pasteurization tanks rather than in oak barrels.

Bottle. A very nice dark pour with a thin head that stays. Good creamy taste too it with a well balanced malt vs. hop body. Good stout, very smooth.

Appears a pitch, opaque black with only a dark, caramel toned brown yielding any light at the very bottom of the glass. A small tan head fades into a scattered cap and collar. Spotty lacing is left around the glass but slides back into the brew. Smell is of dusty cocoa, caramel, vanilla, and oak. Perhaps there is a touch of creaminess as well. Taste is of the mentioned aromas that leads to a balanced stout that seems sweet and not really roasty like many other stouts. Mouthfeel is medium-full bodied with light oak tannins complimenting the cocoa, caramel, and vanilla flavors that run along the palate but don’t linger. Slightly sweet up front with a gentle, tannic, bitter end that is very soft, smooth, mildly slick, and semi-dry. Really nice IMO. A nice drinking stout. That 5.2 goes down like nothing.

12 OZ bottle from slob (Thanks!). I don’t get much from the nose on this one. Maybe some vanilla and a little chocolate. Not much in the way of flavor either. I am shocked...i thought this would be one of those oak/bourbon overkill beers. Instead it is a nice easy drinking stout, the chocolate/coffee/oak flavors are there but are all very balanced and subtle. VERY easy drinking. Medium body. Well carbonated. Nice session beer. Who’da thunk it?

Big thanks to Immy for this one! pours black with dark brown edges and a small tan head that disapears quickly. aroma toffee chocolate and a bit of smoke. flavor sweet rich chocolate and vanilla with a hint of roasted coffee and smoke. finish bitter mocha flavor with a nice dose of vanilla and smoke. medium body. good stout.

Bottle from Hopscotch; Bottling date 2/23/06 ;Nose is coffee, caramel, malt, and smoky woodiness! Very dark transparent brown with a small tan head; flavor of roasty coffee, caramel, a little vanilla, al in a medium body with a very tiny hop finish.

Thank you beerded_one. Pours a nice dark brown with creamy beige head(good retention) Aroma of chocolate and roasted malt. Flavor was Roasted, vanilla and OAK. Amazing. Incredible stout. Great body and great finish.

Bottle from trade with kmweaver. Thanks Ken! Pours a dark brown color with a medium off white head. Aroma of smoked wood, roasted coffee and vanilla. Taste of roasted malt, light caramel and coffee. Decent meduim bodied brew that finishes with slight hop bitterness.