Samuel Smiths Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Samuel Smith
Style: Stout
Tadcaster, England

Pours tar black with a soapy off-white head. Aroma is dark chocolate and brown sugar. Flavor is dry with coffee beans and a slightly milky flavor. Finishes bitter with a dark chocolate taste.

From 550 ml bottle. You can tell from the opening of the cap that you’re about to enjoy a fantastic stout. The aroma is great, strong and thick, if you can consider thick to be an aroma. Deep brown to black color, great dark tan head. The myriad of flavors includes some mellow chocolate, some burnt wood notes, and roasted malt. The overall impression of the flavor ends up much fuller than the 5% ABV would lead you to expect, the bitter flavor is not too bitter to where you cannot taste any of the sweetness, which is by no means cloying. This is a great beer, and one of the best stouts out there, in my humble opinion.

This is my favourite stout bar none, silky smooth texture. Chocolate and nutty full flavour but not overpowering. The only thing I don’t like is the cost but hey you have to pay a little for perfection.

550 ml bottle from a LCBO gift pack. pours with a perfect stout appearance into my new sam smiths pint glass. opaque black with a mid tan head that lasts and lasts. sexy laces all down the glass. aromas of roasted malts, mostly chocolate, some toffee, noticeable hops. flavours are duller then the aromas and a little thin. all roasted malts in the mouth with a touch of bitterness on the finish. the mouthfeel is quite silky and fuller then the 5% abv would lead you to believe. this is a damn fine stout that i wish was availible year round.

Remarks Big foamy lacy light espresso head.Clear dark rich red bronze black color.Mellow roasted chocolate mild hop front.Creamy oatmeal silky mellow roasted oatmeal chocolate cookie bisquit mild fruit body.Mild hop bittersweet clean easy end.Small English Stout.

(550ml bottle at home on October 29, 2008) This is a work of art. Gorgeous brown head, perfectly thick and clingy lacing, and a solid nearly-black brew! Smells thick and malty and bitter. It’s obvious this is a stout. Its taste... fantastic. Creamy, sweet, roasted, slightly bitter. A little woodsey. I like it, always have. Has a slightly metallic flavor, but nothing lingering. Despite its thickness, this brew goes down sweet and easy... Sam Smith makes good beers...

550 mL bottle. Almost black, with a thich brown head that reduces, but never quite disappears. Aroma is not strong, but is very pleasant; roast, a slight acidity, a sweetness underneath. Flavour is not overwhelming either, with some roast, some malt sweetness, some milk chocolate, some bitterness. It just works. Incredibly smooth, lingering, creamy finish. Very well done.

Good stout. Bittersweet taste. Surprisingly silky texture. Palate is medium-dry. I like to drink stouts alot and this one was very good.