Emersons Oatmeal Stout

Formerly brewed at Emersons Brewing Company
Style: Sweet Stout
Dunedin, New Zealand

nice up-front sweetness and roast. Finishes a bit short, but a pleasant lingering toastiness.

Bottle at Minibar, Queenstown. Pours a beautiful dark brown with a medium tanned head. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, dark fruit and honey. The flavour is roasted malt, chocolate, coffee, dark fruit and honey. Good lingering bitterness and smooth finish. Unfortunately was served too cold and I don’t think I got the best out of this beer.

...tasted at the Purvis brewfest. Nice dark broen with a tan head. I didn’t really get any oatmeal in this one. Very malty, with roasted flavors, dark fruits, some chocolate and a touch of coffee. Slight bittnerness with a coating consistancy. Pretty good, but not what I expected.

Pours with a tall, dark tan head. Beer is black and dense. Aroma of cherries, dark chocolate and roasted malt. Flavours are dominated by malt. There is some fruit, like black cherry, plum and hints of raisin. Hints of coffee at the end of each mouthful. Strong flavours of dark chocolate and coffee. A very well-crafted stout, full bodied and sweet. Very nice.

Pours dark ruby, almost black. Brown fluffy head. Chocolate, caramel and slight spice aroma. Smooth dark chocolate flavour, bringing bitterness with it. Very smooth throughout. A lack of sweetness and boldness of flavour. Good stout, just nothing stands out.

500ml bottle, BB Jun 09 Served lightly chilled in chalice. Pours a sizeable tan foam, dying into a small collar atop a near-opaque black body. Grainy nose, particularly deep roastiness without being all that potent; black coffee, brown sugar/toffee wood, bread, bit of smoke and liquorice, dark fruits particularly plum. Good full chewy body, oily texture, soft carbonation, silky smoothness takes the astrigent edge off the roasted malts. Nice flavour, once again smooth; brown sugar, bitter chocolate, plenty of liquorice, toffee, milky coffee, grainy malt with some subtle hops and plum esters. Finish is...once again...smooth, reaonably bitter, only a slight lingering dryness. Good stout, goes down so easy, no rough edges, very well made and enjoyable to drink.

50 cL bottle. Pours dark brown to black with a creamy chocolate brown and fully diminishing head. Aroma is chocolate and hardroasted malty with a whiff of smoke. Flavour starts with the same yet holds a more pronounced smoke base flavour. Medium sweet and chocolate flavoured yet dominated but hardroasted notes and smoke. Acidic touch from the hardroasted malt. Lingering bitter and acidic finish. Medium creamy mouthfeel.