Grays Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Grays Brewing Company
Style: Sweet Stout
Janesville, Wisconsin USA

Dark muddy-brown body and fading oily tan head. Creamy dark chocolate and caramel nose with rum raisin accents. Medium roast with good fruit characters and moderate sweetness. Light starchy texture. This is a well-made, straight-forward oatmeal stout.

This beer poured a dark black. The head was fairly thick but disappated rather quickly. The coffee aroma was followed by an initially creamy oatmeal body. The initially pleasant flavor drifted into a watery aftertaste that vanished all to quickly for an oatmeal stout. Overall a decent brew, but I don’t know if I’d pick up another one.

This beer pours a fairly dark black (although I could see rays of red and brown as light passed through the bottle-to-glass stream) with a minimal tan head. Aroma is a quite potent coffee and chocolate malt odor. Flavor is also strong coffee and chocolate notes, and is quite good. However, I was very distracted from the taste of this beer with a watery and flat-feeling mouthfeel. This is a good tasting beer, but the mouthfeel issue led me to be slightly disappointed with it.

Dark. From a bottle. Beige head, creamy. Liked the aroma, chocolate hints. Could be a bit bitterer. That didn’t stop me from drinking several of them in a sitting.

Bottle from Kahns in Indy. Very dark brown brew. Nice. Don’t’ know about the oatmeal but for sure the bitter chocolate and roasted malts were clearly definable. Had a nice feel on the tongue and slightly thick.

Mildly roasty aroma of black & chocloate malts, dark in appearance with a good head. Flavor is slightylroasty, creamy and smooth with a balanced level of bitterness. No astringency. A good session beer.

12 oz bottle via Buckyboy (thanks!). Pours a deep black with a small tan head. Nose has notes of oats, lactose, licorice and coffee. Taste is the same with a little saltiness in the finish. Thin body, silky mouthfeel. Overall a very plesant quaffable beer.

Bottle. Pours fairly black with an attractive, dense tan head. Aroma has a bit of piny hops, but mostly showcases coffee, brown sugar, and a touch of mocha. Nice toasty flavor profile with hints of almonds, chocolate, a bit of the gas-station-"cappuccino machine"-concoction. Nice and creamy all around, good balance, even a very subtle hop tap at the end. The mouthfeel is superb for a beer of medium density such as this. The carbonation is reasonably low and the beer seems to just flow alongside my palate like silk. Good work here.