Millstream Colony Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Millstream Brewing Company
Style: Sweet Stout
Amana, Iowa USA

Pours a dark dark almost black color Small off white head. Aroma is awesome, of coffee, and hot choclate. Flavor is roasted coffee. Very tasty! Thanks to Heemer

Opaque with little head. Aroma is chocolate and espresso.Mouthfeel is medium, dry and with medium level of carbonation. Flavor is bitter and lactic with chocolate and coffee notes. Overall an average Oatmeal Stout.

Dark brown with the usual Millstream fizzy and short-live head. The aroma is full of sweet chocolate and roast with a bit of oatmeal. The flavor is fairly big, but comes across as a bit thin. The body is really watery for the style and unsatisfying despite the flavor being pretty good. This brewery’s best beer is definitely the John’s Generations, an excellent witbier.

Acquired via trade. Pours a very dark brown color that lets a little light through. Thin beige head that dissipated rapidly. Not much lacing until further down the glass. The aroma consists mainly of coffee as well as a touch of malt. Medium-bodied with a milky texture. Roasted coffee, malt and a touch of tart fruit in the flavor. The finish is smooth with a lightly bitter character. Nothing too exciting going on here, just a run-of-the-mill Oatmeal Stout you can find anywhere.

Brown bottle liter swing-top: Matte black color with a bit of a darker brown tint in brighter light. Firm finger high crown of lumpy broken chocolate brown, keeps a good puff for a while, settles to keep s broken skim and firm frothed edging, drippy lacing with nothing sticking. Aroma is fantastic, soft bakers chocolate and milk chocolate, just grazes a roasted tint; sweet nuances of oats and barley flakes, little noting of iced coffee and charred wood. Taste is far too sweet; it has tart, tangy, tones that aren’t doing it for me. Lots of malt and oat sweetness thats becoming uncomfortably close to wine-like for an oatmeal stout. Dark cherry and some charred wood notes actually make a way in towards the finish, but the sweetness here is over the top for me. Perhaps this has gotten past its prime. The smell maybe eludes to what it may have once existed in flavors, but this is a sweetified, tangy mess. No matter how hard I try, I cannot enjoy this bottle. Looked and smelled promising, but the taste promised nothing but an overly sweet twang of undrinkable soda pop syrup.

Sweet coffee smell, poured with little head. This was another fairly thin beer. There was a rich coffee flavor that lingered. Nothing too special.

Bottle. I emailed the brewery and they suggested the off taste came from the fact that I had an 8-month old bottle; since they don’t pasteurize their beer, that’s past its prime. I will definietly buy more fresh beer and revise my rating at a future date. Starts out really nice. Beautiful roast coffee smell when opened. Pours a deep black body under a thin tan head. Taste is very roasty, too, but I also get the big sour orange taste other raters mentioned, followed by a punch of Coca-cola. Taste does settle out to a nice creamy oatmeal stout, but the sour cola gets in the way. How could they got such a taste with a lager yeast?

Interesting in that it is a lager instead of a stout. It seems a little light in body, but has a great flavor. Strong roasted coffee flavor. Nice brown head formation on a black beer. Retains its head. Good finish hop. Little or no nose hop. Aroma of roasted barley. Could have more smoothness from the oats.