Samuel Smiths Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Samuel Smith
Style: Stout
Tadcaster, England

Aroma of toasted grains, alcohol. Huge brown head approximately 3 x height of liquid. Toasted chocolate malty initial with slight coffee and short-lived bitter aftertaste.

Samuel Smith never misses. I usually do not like stouts, but this beer ended up my all time favorite beer. All I can say is try it!

This is incredible and perhaps the benchmark for oatmeal stouts. It’s deep, dark red-brown, almost black, with a thick tan head that lasts and leaves moderate lacing. The aroma is rich with caramel and dark fudge with a rich fruitiness. The taste is similar, rich, full-bodied, fudge, raisins, sweetish with wonderful balancing faint bitterness. The palate is thick, creamy, and silky. This is incredibly smooth and delicious, essentially perfection. Ironically, many years ago, this was the 2nd stout I’d ever had and I first did not like it much, but then I was young and inexperienced and barely drank beer at all. This is simply perfect.

I lack the command of the written word to provide a description that would do this beverage justice.

mmmmmmm the best beer that i tasted [for now] mmh!!! good look, a dark deep color, great brownie head, the taste is amazing, a little notes of caramel , coffe and sugar brown. In nouse is gentile, smooth. Great Beer!!! i enjoy it with one brownie cake and looking a NYC film.

Very yummy! Atfirst taste it packed a bitter punch to me, but then when I took my second taste it was delightful. It had a lovely and full beige head, and the beer was like a dark root-beer hue. It would be something that I would eat perhaps with a LITE dinner or lunch with a beef dip sansfries or salad with it. The drink packs a punch though, it is very smooth, not a lot of bubbles - which I love, and the texture is quite unique - soft would be the word, but does not describe the character - body of this brew was heavy - almost like it could be a meal in and of itself, and after that only one I was feeling a very nice buzz coming on me .I would undubitably have it again, even with a bag of peanut butter pretzels. I think the peanut taste, salt and the heavy beer would be pleasing to the palate. The beer is much heavier than New Castle, but so much more pleasant and sweeter than Guinness.

There is a wonderful aroma of choclate, coffee and roast malt. The beer pours to the most beautiful latte like head with small bubbles tracing up the edge of the glass into the head. The body of the beer is jet black and almost reflective in the glass. The first taste of the beer is amazing, it starts with a sweet chocolate taste and moves across the palate to a crisp dry coffee finish, which lingers and lingers.

Pour a black color with a tan creamy head.The aroma is of roasted malts, with some coffe notes.The taste is just great.It’s very sweet and malty.The mouthfeel is creamy and drinkable.Bottomline it’s one of the best of the best.