Great Lakes Brewing Chocolate Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Great Lakes Brewing (Ontario)
Style: Sweet Stout
Etobicoke, Canada

Cask sample at Volo Cask Days 2008. Dark brown, thin tan head, still body. Aroma of mild roast malt and chocolate syrup. Body is too light for my taste in stout, although I find that to be common in cask versions. Flavour is nice, with a pleasant chocolate character and touches of coffee and smoke.

[1829-20081026] Cask. Sweet heavy milk mocha chocolate and dry wood aroma. Black brown body with a quick head. Slight chemical milk chocolate and mild cocoa mocha flavour. Medium-full body. Quite good but the chemical properties are not endearing.
(@ Bar Volo; Toronto, ON)

Cask. At Volo Cask Days 2008. Slick-looking oily black pour, with a small head. Aroma of licorice, chocolate liqueur and leather - all over the map, but all things that appeal to my nose. The taste had more of the leather, seemed a little wan, but there was a saving note of mild peat as it warmed up. Thin-bodied, but silky and soft, with a long, somewhat boring linger of cocoa powder. I liked it, but they need to up the roast some and tone down the chocolate.

volo cask days- Good job John!!! very very black, no head and not much carbonation, nose is of coco powder. flavor reminds me of a non carbonated coc-loco. well done nice flavor

2008-10-26. Black headless body. (3+) Mild aroma, sweet cocoa/chocolate syrup notes along with something else. Sweet malt is muted. (6+) Flavour is mild lightly muddled. Same cocoa/syrup character as in the aroma, very mild chocolate. (6+) Average plus palate could definitely be weightier, and needs more carbonation as its fairly flat. Okay, decent experiment needs a bit more to it and a bit more balance overall. Cask at Volo, Toronto

On cask at Volo Cask Days extended version 2008. Pours black, with initially soapy bubbles. Aroma is pure American sweet chocolate. The mouthfeel is below average and a bit astringent, the cask is tapped after sitting for one and a half weeks. There is some bitterness coming through in the finish. Fairly basic for the style.