Samuel Smiths Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Samuel Smith
Style: Stout
Tadcaster, England

This is quite a beer indeed. Pours whiite thick and nice brown head, excellent appearance. Aroma is sweet and full, not sure what of though. Taste is soo soo smooth, sweet and chocolaty, coffee and a little very little mollasses, but very very smooth. Overall a great great and unexpected winner. RERATE: Down from 4.6- 3.3. Sweet roasty, chocolate. Soft hyowever nothing like as good as i had it before.

This beer rocks. If you like other stouts that I rated highly, then this one won’t disappoint.

A dark viscous brew with thick mouthfeel and a sticky sweet aftertaste. Dark milk chocolate with lactic sweetness dominates the body and can be somewhat overpowering. Still, this is a very good beer and one of Samuel Smith's best.

black colour, few head, coffe and mocha aroma, oily, moderate maltiness, long bitter finish - pleasant

Re-rate: a lot staler and sweeter than i remember, not much roasty bitterness in the finish, more sweet chocolate/caramel flavours, either my taste has changed, or Sam Smiths has gotten worse.Original rating (3.5):It was a nice stout, but not really what i expected, had a smooth mouthfeel with a buttery sweetness, which wasn’t great, but wasn’t bad. A decent brew.

Very dark brown, nearly black; dirty brown head, diminishing but permanent. Nose: chocolate - between milk and fondant (dark). Vague burnt malt/grain, licorice, sweet...and smelly socks. Taste is more cereal - indeed like oatmeal flakes. Chocolate returns in the background/palate, like slightly sweetened fondant. Chocolatey character, bitter-sweet, gains more emphasis in the finish, like a lesser chocolate with much non-cocoa additions. If I agree with anything in the general consensus, it's with its perfect balance - truly impressive. Aftertaste has a surprising new flavour: (French) candied violets. In the category "sweet stout", it's hard to imagine anything better... Oh for trying the St. Ambroise or the Nils Oskar...

Bottled, Pasteurised. Deep black colouu with big, long lasting, tan head. Beautifully presented beer, nice and still, plenty of body, but it would be much improved as a Bottle conditioned beer, the life has gone and there is a boiled cabbagy note. Not the best stout because of this, there are much more interesting ones around. There is a sweet fruity background, with a dry bitterish note. Good, but not that good!

Black body with nice beige head. Roasted malts in the aroma along with some coffee and hints of bitterness. Flavor has a light sweetness, some roasted malts hints of coffee and chocolate and finishing with a bitterness. Palate was too thin for me.