McNeills Oatmeal Stout

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

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.

I’d give it 3.6 on tap at mcneills. mellow oatmeal, banana like fruitiness, mild acid touch with a lot of bitterness
Bottle: Pitch black with a thin dark brown head. Heavy aroma, intense hop profile, grapefruity and flowery, very green, but good chocolate chunks in there too and you really feel the oatmeal just by smelling. Palate is right to the point, do not pass go and do not claim 200$, this is lemony(grapefruit juice even) with lots of alpha-acid, citric, tart, agressive. Roastiness is also very direct. This is an intense rendition where the focus is hard to be kept to find some depth, but there are some plums or prunes in the malt background as well as some coffee grains. A smaller version of their imperial stout which seems a bit redundant. Nice full and velvety body with low carbonation, but that alone doesn’t do the trick for me.

Pours dark, used motor oil. Small brown head with very good lacing. Coffee carmel aroma. Smooth creamy palate. Some hops in the finish.

Dark pour with secent sized brown head. Nice lacing throughout. Roasted cocoa like aroma. Powerful bitter hop taste. I also tasted dried fruites. Finish is roasted chocolate.

Kicking chocolate aroma and flavor. Creamy and big bodied this dark brown beer is topped with a huge brown head. Sweet finish punctuated with sharp hop bite.

A dark brown color with a caramel residue. A small chocolate tna head with nice lacing. A roasted chocolate aroma, slight fresh hops. Medium body with a bitter roasted finish. Average.

Man, this is a tough one for me. The color was pitch black, opaque, with a very small light brown head. The aroma was very bitter, chocolate, and dry dog food(!). The flavor was full of chocolate and hops bitterness...a combination that just didn't work for me this time. The feel was far too watery...not really thin, but definitely not carbonated enough.