Samuel Smiths Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Samuel Smith
Style: Stout
Tadcaster, England

Very handsome in the glass...a dark brown pour that settles into a deeper black with some ruby highlights. The head is long-lasting, dark tan in colour, and retains some very impressive lacing throughout the entire pint. I could detect very little smell at first, but as this warmed up, i could get some chocolate, coffee, and considerable nutmeg traces. This is a very malty, balanced beer whose taste centers mostly on cereal-like flavours and is rounded out by some subtle coffee and roasted barley. The finish is semi-sweet, contains hints of cacao, and has a nice dry feeling.

lets not actually rate this beer. This beer is like a swedish super model, Beautiful, sexy, and overwelming. This beer poors like niagara falls, the most beautiful site. It pours smooth, almost as smooth as the quaker oats man himself. this BEER is like your first crush, mysterous, beautiful, and wanting, and when you first taste her, you dont know what to think but the love of your life. Almost like your favorite celebrity sitting naked in front of you. Smooth like a babys butt like they say, smooth like a babies butt. Just like in Old Greg on youtube, "Baileys, as close as you can get without your eyes gettin wet".

pUrchased a 750 ml at La Mesa,CA BevMo for about 4 dlls . Really good, i think its quite strong fro just 5% like it reads, anyway mm really dark opaque brown color, really coffee-like thing white a very big and porous beige head, taste a lot like a Guinness, didnt notice quite much diference between a an oatmeal and a Barley stout .however really nice light-toasted and sweet aroma.

Bottle @ Metro. 5%. Beautiful dark brown pour with a fairly weak tan head with mild lacing. Aroma is chocolate, coffee, malts. Taste is oaty, thick, rich, with a hint of chocolate. Superb.

Bottle. Dark chocolate brown with a tan head that leaves some lacing. Aroma of chocolate, coffee, and dark fruit. The flavor is sweet with a light roasty bitterness. Full body with a decent amount of carbonation to lighten it up and a long dry finish. This is a great beer that first got me into stouts way back when, it’s just as good as I remember it.

Very dark with large, dark head. Very mild but pleasant aroma. Smooth chocolaty/coffee flavor. Thinnish mouthfeel.

bottle into a glass-FIRST DRINK-Deep roasted flavor, I’ll admit i’m a novice when it comes to stouts, but this is one of the best i’ve tried. HALF GLASS-Holding up nicely, very well made beer, those English bastards. FINISH-Holds up nicely, only gets better as it warms.

Jet black pour with 1-inch thick tan head. Aroma is assertive like rubbing alcohol, roasted barley, oats. Smooth texture with a medium body. Begins with malt sweetness - molasses, caramel and chocolate, chewy toffee - and continues into a balancing hop spice bitterness, though subtle. Finishes on a cadence of dry and bittersweet coffee flavor. Malted barley combined with oatmeal and more roasted barley add a nice nuance to this beer which separates it from the average stout. Slick palate and a somewhat abrupt finish.