St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout

Thick and creamy stout. A very dark brown colour. Strong chocolate and oatmeal flavours. Great body. Full head, half an inch to an inch thick. Distinct taste,full flavoured. cheers

Bottle. Pours a pitch black colour with a nice big creamy rocky light brown well lasting head leaving a good lacing. Aroma of roasted malt, smoke, biter chocolate, coffe and some liquorice. Good mouthfeel though I suspected a more creamy one. The flavour has a very pleasant roastiness with chocolate, coffee, oat, some smoke and dark fruits, The finish is quite roasty with some bitterness and coffee. A good stout but rather thin. It needs more body.

(Bottled, thanks oh6gdx!) Very dark brown with a firm and long-lasting, beige head. Very roasty, smoky, tarry and malty aroma with some lactic sourness and malt sweetness. Surprisingly earthy, quite smoky, tarry and lightly licoricey flavor with eucalyptus, and lots of roasted and some burned malt, dark chocolate, and a dry, ashy bitterness in the long finish. Medium-bodied, pretty silky-smooth palate with low to medium carbonation. An excellent, complex and throughly enjoyable stout - especially for the low ABV! This might even be better than Fuller’s London Porter...

Bottle from porterhouse - thanks, Kevin! Sweet and slightly sour roast aroma, some great funky-nutty Dunkel notes. Some dark candied fruit and an English ale yeast strain. Dry with slight bittering hops. Pitch pour with a GORGEOUS dark brown head, lacing and rocky and bubbly and spoonable. Strong smoked character with heavy roast. Predominately very dry with only the occasional flash of sweetness. Nutty with slight dark pitted fruit underneath. Burned notes from copious black malt. Touch of cocoa with lots of chocolate. Thin, watery body is usually a negative but makes this all the more sessionable. Very robust tasting but not over-the-top; manages to retain a high degree of complexity. Alcohol perfectly hidden and low enough to warrant a little binge. Light bitterness and nice and dark. Very high praise for this one: after over eighty stouts, this is one of my favorites.

Poured black with a brown fluffy head. Aroma of oatmeal, chocolate, and coffee. Big oatmeal flavors with chocolate, coffee, and fruit hints. More sweet than roasted. Very smooth.

(Bottle) Pours black. Dry and roasted aroma with tones of cocoa, chocolate, caramel, coffee powder and smoke. Fruity undertones of raisins and plums. Salty and roasted flavour with tones of sweet liquorice, chocolate, coffee, gravel, mint and caramel. Some sal ammoniac in the aftertaste. Light sweet and medium bitter. Round and caramel syrupy mouthfeel. Medium bodied. Yeah.

Bottle. Pitch black pour, with a small but dense beige to tan head. Nice lacings. Roasted nose with molasses, coffee, licorice and some weak alcohol notes. For a 5% ABV beer, it is certainly nice, but I could wish more more chocolatey aromas. Considering the ABV, it’s quite full-bodied, with a quite dry mouthfeel, and a little warming feeling towards the end. The flavor is dominated by roastiness, but also chocolate and coffee plays a significant part. It is quite bitter, but there’s not much hoppy bitterness to be detected, it’s mostly the coffee-like bitterness. It is a nice beer that slides down quite easily. (071008)

12oz bottle (Thanks radiomgb) pours pitch black with a thick mocha head. Rich, roasted chocolate malt aroma, with coffee overtones. Big roasted coffee and chocolate flavor, with some hops coming in at the finish. Long, bitter chocolate finish. Medium bodied. Excellent stout.