Four Peaks Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Four Peaks Brewing Company
Style: Stout
Tempe, Arizona USA

On tap in Tempe. Deep black pour with a small creamy tan head that lasts and laces. Nice roasty malt and coffee aroma. Flavor is not highly complex, but very nice and slightly sweet. Smooth, but a bit thin on the palate. Not great, but worth a try.

Pours midnight black with a velvety single-finger head. Aroma is of mostly roast and sweet malt with a very nice underlying oatmeal sweetness. Taste encompasses the full spectrum of coffee, chocolate, oatmeal, and roast all in velvet goodness. Far better than any of the dozen other oatmeal stouts that I have had. Update: Their inconsistency continues to confound me. Sometimes this beer is other-worldly (4.8 region of rating) and othertimes mediocre. Makes me angry, but I’m thankful when I get one on the high end.

Tap at the brewpub in Tempe. Black with a creamy tan head. Dark toasted malt aroma. Medium body with very mild carbonation. Flavor is light burnt/toasted malt. Mildly bitter finish. Ok.

draft at the brewpub. Wow this was a poor excuse for beer. Really no good. Flavorless.

The first stout I can ever recall not finishing...and I only had a 1 oz sample! Pours a dark mahogony from the tap at Four Peaks with a thin creamy head. Tastes like someone’s first attempt at making coffee -- watery and unbalanced. A clear disappointment.

On tap at Scottsdale location. Pours a clear dark brown with light tan head and great lacing. Nose is oats, burnt malt and light coffee. Taste is chalky cocoa, toasted malt and mild coffee. Full, creamy mouth feel. Not bad – a bit mild and very drinkable.

Very mild and uneventful with the normal players getting involved: chocolate, roasted malt, bitter coffee, etc., etc., etc.. Tasty but not one I’d go out of my way for.

Black, small head. Flavor and aroma of dark chocolate, slight coffee, bitter hops, carob, coffee. On tap at brewery.