Rock Bottom Sticky Tongue Stout

Tap at the Del Mar race track. Pours a deep chestnut brown almost no head. Roasted malt, light bitterness, oatmeal, and 2 hour old Folgers coffee.

Tasted at the San Diego International Beer Festival. Dark brown with no head. Faint malty aroma. Sweet, chewy, sugary, chocolate taste with a roasty finish.

On tap at Hamiltons. Pours with a black body topped by a thick brown head wtih a good amount of lacing. It’s sweet and full of coffee, vanilla and an artificial chocolate note (reminds me of Cocoa powder). Light bodied for a stout and smooth.

Tap @ La Jolla location. Pours dark brown with a nice cascading tan head. Caramel, cocoa, oatmeal, and hot fudge in the aroma. Sticky on the tongue, but overall more of a dry stout mouthfeel. Chocolate milkshake with malt, and some espresso in the taste. Dry finish. A nice, silky smooth stout.

(Draft: Rock Bottom in Irvine, CA) Competent, but not outstanding, this beer is balanced, flavorful, pleasant, but still seems lighter in flavor than other oatmeal stouts; Strong dark roasted maltiness with only a moderate oatmeal flavor; Mildly sweet; Fairly bitter, but the bitterness is in balance and complementary to the maltiness; Hardly anything in the nose; Black and opaque, even at the edges; Huge, tall, tan head has great retention and good lacing

Delectably delectable...i think! It pours a mean black hue with a thin scattering of orangey head which dissipates mighty quick. The aroma is choco-cocoa...! The taste...is more choco-cocoa, but it is just beautifully put together. Mocha, chocolate, cocoa and a hint of sweet coffee mixed in with more chocolate malt finish this dry beer. Nicely done indeed. I want more!

A voyage into the deepest blackness occurs upon visual inspection of this brew. Big ass chocolate in the araoma and continutues into the body of the beer, Damn impressive, just like a nice piece of dark chocolate. Most impressive.

Cask-conditioned draught: Dark brown, head bigger than the beer, nice nutty/chocolatey aroma, HUGE chocolate flavor and very sweet...The closest a beer can come to pure milk-chocolate