Samuel Smiths Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Samuel Smith
Style: Stout
Tadcaster, England

From a 355 ml. bottle marked SL06C1. Samuel Smith’s products are excellent and when I have some extra cash on hand I like to buy it. This one is a favorite that pours very brown with a beige/tan frothy head that stays on top for most of the session. The aroma is sweet and formidable aroma of chocolate or cocoa. It has such a smooth mouth feel and goes down like cream. This is one of the smoothest beers I have ever had.

Bottled brew that pours dark brown with a light beige head. Exciting aroma of fruit,nuts, roast and oats. Bit of sweetness and a bitter bite on the first sip, leading to an explosion of rich chocolate, butter, nuts, and grapes. Final aftertaste is lingering oatmeal and molasses (?). One of my favorites!

This is likely my favourite stout, possibly favourite beer at the moment. It’s dark and smooth, which is me all over. Bold coffee and charred something, don’t quite know what but it works. If you wanna get into semi-widely distributed stouts, start with this, and expect to work your way down. I think this beer is flawless.

This is a really solid stout, one of the smoothest and best malt profiles I can remember. For only being 5% the weight on the palate and malt depth is very impressive. Soft burnt characters, dark chocolate, that oatmeal smoothness you get. Subtle dark cherry comes through as it warms.

550 ml in Chicago but can be found everywhere in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. This is fantastic! Massive head for a stout- about two fingers. Aroma is of raisins and chocolate. Initial taste though is creamy and ultra smooth with some malt and bitter sweet chocolate. Body is creamy but still fairly light with I guess the oat flavor coming out, which is new for me. Very drinkable with a slightly bitter malt aftertaste. Reminds me a great Oyster Stout though I reckon this one would be heaps better with seafood than Guinness or an Oyster Stout.

550ml bottle, pours to thick, brown ale, good sweet smell to it, not overpowering, a slight sweet malt taste, balanced well and is very smooth, cream taste

This is one of the best stouts I have ever had. Nice balance between sweetness and bitterness. Head is nice and light brown in color, very creamy tasting. The taste gets sweeter the closer you are to the end of the glass. Overall, one of the best, if not the best beer I have had.

Pours a deep reddish-black with a large, tan head. Sweet aroma, hints of maple sugar and chocolate. Not a heavy bodied beer, but very smooth. Light bittersweet chocolate and roasted malts prevail in the flavor department. A good, old standard, just not as impressive as some of the newer, more extreme examples.