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Southern Tier Oat

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RatingsAverageScoreSeasonalABVStyle PctlServe in
6394.02/5.04.01/5.0Special11%89.7Snifter
Commercial Description:
“brewed for the harvest” This beer begins in spring when oat seeds are sown as soon as the soil can be worked. Meanwhile, select types of barley are planted with hopes that Mother Nature will be kind. Our brewers wait patiently until the legumes are mature and ready for the scythe. Upon delivery to the brewery, these ingredients are mixed together in the mash tun where they steep, creating a rich molasses-like liquid. Spicy hops are boiled with the thick brew, giving balance and complexity. Brewers yeast feasts upon the rich sugars, concluding its transformation into oatmeal stout. Pour Oat into a snifter, allow its thick tan head to slowly rise, releasing unbridled aromas. The color of Oat is as dark as a moonless night. The first sip reveals Oat’s thick and nourishing taste. Like a haversack to a horse, a bottle of this stout is a meal in itself. Enjoy responsibly. 11.0% abv • 238º L
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 RCL (1480), Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/104/516/20
May 21, 2008  
This is a well balanced, huge beer. Black pour. Dark chocolate liqueur aroma. Chocolaty flavor with the high alcohol content almost totally imperceivable, but enough hops on the finish to give it nice structure.


 Rogueone (506), I F&ckin’ hate those guys from, Ohio, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/103/516/20
May 21, 2008  
Thanks sliffy: Holy booze factory!! This is a potent beer. Pours wickedly dark, aroma of roasted chocolate malts, scalded milk, oatmeal, and booze. Flavor is much the same; the oats lend a dryness to this beer, but it is very full-bodied with a silky dark chocolate-ness to it. Very, very warm finish.


 DocHop (278), Baltimore, Maryland, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
May 20, 2008  
Pours a very dark black chocolate with a small, light brown head. Delicious chocolate, oatmeal aroma, very sweet and rich. Taste is similarly delicious with some dark fruits at first. Then all out rich, dark chocolate, with a very creamy oatmeal cookie body. The sweetness lingers with just a little alcohol on the long finish.


 Vas19 (299), Maryland, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
May 20, 2008  
Pours black with a thin tan head. Aroma of malt, oats, and coffee. Good roasted malt and chocolate/coffee flavors. Great creamy mouthfeel, but the alcohol is a bit too noticeable.


 Marsiblursi (1649), Göteborg, Sweden
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/516/20
May 16, 2008    Updated: May 17, 2008
(Bottle, thanks to Puddintane and MaxxDaddy) Pours dark brown to black with a small brown head. The aroma is heavily malty with a medium to heavily roasted profile. Tons of dark chocolate, cocoa, chocolate ice cream, brown sugar, dark caramel and molasses with smaller notes of oat cookies, stone, smoke, roasted nuts, vanilla, cold coffee, prunes, raisins, anise, sal ammoniac, metal, salt and shellfish. Light notes of hops with subtle hints of grass, mild resin, apricot and light citrus. Touch of subtle spices - maybe the faintest hints of ginger and coriander, very strange aromas for an Imp Stout. The flavour is medium to heavily sweet, medium to heavily roasted and light to medium bitter. A lot of dark caramel, dark syrup, chocolate, some coffee and some anise. Undertones of prunes, raisins, dark bread and oat cookies. Some of hops with hints of citrus and apricot. The mouthfeel is oily, sticky, soft and a bit syrupy. Some biting, numbing alcohol that dries out the finish. Aftertaste of molasses and chocolate syrup. Near full bodied. Very good, but on the edge of being too sweet.


 turbo (1254), Arizona, USA
4.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/103/59/105/518/20
May 16, 2008  
Aroma is rich, roasty malts and alcohol. Flavor is rich and thick with a big malt and black chocolate. Thick, rich, heavy body with cloying mouthfeel and finish.


 rickgordon (3304), Göteborg, Sweden
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
May 12, 2008  
Bottled. Thanks omhper. Almost black colour with low head, if any at all. Sweet, malty aroma with sugars and chocolate. Lots of malt sweetness in flavour, with plain cocolate. at makes the bodu very oily. Alcohol shines through maybe a bit too much


 MaltDawg (778), Richmond, Virginia, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/518/20
May 9, 2008  
22 oz bomber courtesy of Maniac. Dark mahogany brown almost opague with small head. Aromas of roasted malt and some raisin. Raisins, plums, and roast malt flavors backed with assertive hopping to ballance. Creamy full moderatly carbonated mouthfeel with some alchohol warming. Some coffee and lots of roasty malts in the finish. Super oatmeal stout.



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