San Marcos Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by San Marcos Brewery & Grill
Style: Stout
San Marcos, California USA

On tap. Pours black and opaque with a creamy light brown head. Roasted malt in the nose with a lightly fusty edge. Medium body, hard roasted malt, a little licorice and again a light fustiness. Finishes dry without any real bitterness. 070709

From tap at the brewpub. Pours pitch black and with a small tan and dense creamy head. Roasted and dark malty aroma. Roasted malt flavoured, sweet oatish and lighttouch of burned/smoke accents. Lasting sweet malty flavoured into the far finish.

Name: Old Goat’s Oats
Date: 11/29/2007
Mode: Firkin
Source: Brewpub

black, fine tan head, roasted malt aroma with a sweet , creamy oatmeal body, rich roasted and dark chocolate flavor, touch of buttery dark caramel sweetness, light bitterness comes out of the roast,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Old Goats Oatmeal Stout-on hand pump-pours a rich to disappearing tan head and black color. Aroma is dark malt-coffee/chocolate/molasses, bready/oat. Taste is sweet dark malt-coffee/chocolate/molasses, bready/oat. No carbonation.

Cask at San Marcos Brewing
Dark brown/black with tan head and lots of lacing. Nose of roasted chocolate and vanilla, light creamy body. Lots of rich clean flavor and no astringency. Nice stout, very creamy and satisfying. I’d have rather gotten a pint of this than dredge through their whole sampler tray.

@ SM Brewpub, cask: Very dark brown with a tan head. Sweet and roasty malt with butterscotch (damn why must they do this to me I was looking foward to this beer) Flavor some roast some toast but thin and watery, where’s the oatmeal. Little flavor. This was a let down.

Sample at the brewpub. This Stout pours nearly black with ruby around the edges. Foamy and thin beige head that burns away steadily, and a sheet of lacing. Roasty aroma of malt and coffee. Medium, dry body with flavors of coffee, roasted malt and some hops. The finish is dry and roasty with notes of coffee and bready malt, with a mild hops aftertaste left over. Above average overall, but not by a lot.

(Cask Draft: San Marcos Brewery & Grill in San Marcos, CA) This oatmeal stout features a moderate dark roasted and oatmeal flavor, but it’s a bit lighter in style than others in this category. Moderate bitterness seems in balance. Light smokiness in the finish. The mouthfeel is a bit thin on body for the style, and doesn’t have much carbonation, but that’s cask for ya’. The nose has moderate dark roasted aromas, but very little in the way of oatmeal. Very dark brown, not jet black, and shows a deep red at the edges. Tan head has good retention and leaves a dense blanket of lacing.