McNeills Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by McNeills Brewery
Style: Sweet Stout
Brattleboro, Vermont USA

Salty, bittersweet chocolate, roasted coffee, meaty aroma. Opaque black body with lasting tan head that leaves some lace. Extremely dry and roasty coffee-like flavour with some vinous notes and a chalky, charcoal-like finish. Not really seeing a lot of the sweet in this one. Dry medium body with fair carbonation. On tap at the brewpub with MartinT, muzzlehatch and Rastacouere.

Yum. This stuff is killer. Right up there with Sam Smith Oatmeal Stout. Pours opaque black with a frothy brown head. Aroma rich in coffee, chocolate, Quaker Oats. Full bodied with a rich feel. Negligible carbonation, as it should be in stouts. The flavor was breakfast: coffee, oatmeal, toast. Thoroughly enjoyed this beer. Phil, you have come through again.

Bottle: Pours to a completely opaque black color. Head is very small, frothy dark brown that reduces to a medium ring around the outside of the glass with nice lacing. Aroma: Roasted coffee, barley, chocolate, oatmeal, milk, and a very slight bitter hoppiness. Flavor: Very roasty, coffee, bakers baking chocolate, slight grain/oatmeal, and some bitter floral & grapefruit hops. The mouthfeel of this beer is near perfect - smooth, rich, velvety, tingling carbonation - easy enough to gulp, but refined enough to enjoy. Finishes with tons of bitterness from the dark malts, but nicely balanced with a lighter hop bitterness.

Opaque black, just a hint of red, small tan head and nice lacing on the glass. Dry and roasted aroma. Roasted coffee and lots of dark chocolate, slick mouthfeel. A decent Oatmeal Stout

Bottle - Pours a very dark brown/black with a dark tan head and a medium amount of lacing. Aroma is of coffee and roasted barley with some hoppy bitterness mixed in. Flavor is very strong coffee and roasted malt with some hint of fruit. Finish is long and very bitter. Hop bitterness is pretty intense; almost harsh at times.

I love oatmeal souts, the mouthfeel like black velvet. Very roasty aroma. Great coffee and roasty flavors. A nice, enjoyable beer.

Bomber. Pours totally opaque with a quite dark, brown head that eventually disappears, never to be seen again. Aroma is quite strong with lots of roastiness and chocolate and coffee; perhaps also some light raisins and caramel. Flavor is very sweet, a bit acidic and just barely a touch sour; a little vanilla, along with loads of coffee and chocolate, and a significant hop hit in the finish. Not completely unlike the imperial stout, although I think the impy is a bit more mind-blowing than this. Thicker-than-average mouthfeel but could be thicker; taste lasts in the mouth a good while. Very good.

bomber...opaque black with a medium hot chocolate head. Slight aroma, some roasted malt/oatmeal maybe. Interestingly acidic, some definate bitterness (grapefruit) in the finish. Some roastiness more toward the end also, quite complex. Mouthfeel is kinda thin, maybe because of the acidic feel. Maybe too complex.