Peoples Pint Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Peoples Pint
Style: Sweet Stout
Greenfield, Massachusetts USA

Date: 09/29/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Cellar Party

black, wispy beige head, huge butter aroma with only a hint of roasted malt breaking through, lots of butter flavor mixed with dark chocolate,

Aroma: 2/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 3/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 5/20
Rating: 1.6/5.0
Drinkability: 4/10
Score: 4

(22oz bottle) Pours an opaque black body with a medium tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, oatmeal, dark chocolate, and some dark fruit. Flavor of sour grain, dark fruit, vinous,chocolate, and vinegar.

Pours a mostly opaque with a thin, spotty-lacing dark tan head. Aroma has perhaps the most diacetyl I’ve ever smelled in a beer or in a bag or microwave popcorn along with some mild roasty chocolate notes. Body is coated with slick oily diacetyl and some milk chocolate with a touch of sweetness, just dripping in popcorn butter. Just do a diacetyl rest and this beer would probably be pretty good, but right now, it’s damn near undrinkable.

090510-on tap-pours a retaining big light brown head and black color. Aroma is dark malt-licorice/chocolate. As it warms, molasses. Taste is dark malt-molasses/chocolate/ashy, creamy/oat, some earthy hops. Interesting for style/occasional, although not my style. 3.4 *090510-Peoples Pint Oatmeal Stout–on cask-pours a tan ring for a head and black color. Aroma is dark malt-bolder than tap and alcohol and earthier. 090514-22oz bottle-pours a rich light brown head and black color. Aroma is very sweet clashing with earthy, rubbery, chocolate/molasses/ashy-dark malt, acidic. As it warms it doesn’t clash. Taste is ashy/coffee-dark malt, acidic/earthy/bitter hops, some alcohol, powdery/gritty mouth feel. Based on having at cellar temperature. 3.1

Draught sample at the brewpub. Pours dark brown with a tan head. Smells of nuts and chocolatey. Tastes peppery with some roasted malt and sweet caramel on the finish.

My Bottom Line:
This healthy Oatmeal Stout provides ample coffee atop the roasted caramel, building an effortlessly drinkable, although perhaps sweet example.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A sheet of foam protects the blackness.
-Dark chocolate also accompanies the coffee roastiness.
-The body is healthy on tap, but I admit the bottle was a little thinner than was to be expected from the full and creamy nose.
-Carbonation is comfortable and serves the flavor profile adequately.
-The tap version gave me a blast of caramel sweetness in the nose.

From the bottle (3.5) and from the tap (3.1).

Bottle. Dark black beer with a thin tan head. Aroma is quite sour. Unpleasantly metallic with a touch of sour coffee in the background. The flavour is also sour with a bit of chalky charry flavour. Utterly undrinkable.

22 oz bottle from Spirit Haus in Amherst, MA (September 2006) consumed around cellar temperature from a Chouffe tulip glass. Opaque purple-black colored with a smallish lasting dark creamy tan head....luscious chocolaty nose, just hugely aromatic even from several feet away with an amazing blend of herbal scents: spearmint certainly (!), licorice and perhaps cinnamon, in many ways this is reminiscent of a holiday spice beer in this oh-so-fragrant nosing.....it’s back down to earth when the tongue gets involved, though there’s some good chocolaty stuff it never reaches anything like transcendence and in fact becomes somewhat hard, mineralic and chalky at the finish with a cardboardy thinness as it warms, and the end result is old bitter coffee grounds unsupported by much malt or creaminess in the mouthfeel. Wow, this started out so well and finished so mediocre...bummer.