St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by McAuslan Brewing
Style: Stout
Montreal, Canada

jet black with a dark carmel head. bittersweet chocolate and espresso aroma. flavor is awesome of roasted grains, burnt coffee and chocolate. dry and bitter but the oatmeal really keeps everything balanced well. medium mouthfeel, with a surprisingly smooth finish.

Bonus bottle off my wants list from john_adam2002. Best before June 30, 2009. Thanks Adam! Pitch black with a creamy small microbubble head. Aroma is that sour dry roasty aroma that I’m not the biggest fan. At least the aroma is very mild, but that’s where it ends. The flavor is a strong dry roasted grains, much like a cigarette butt. Much like the unpleasant Founders Breakfast Stout, it just has too much roasted flavor and is too dry. Apparently this style is great for many, but not for me. A very generous 3.0, only brought up, because it’s probably good for the style. Ug.

One of the better North American breweries puts out one of the continent’s best stouts. Pours black through and through with an appealingly tinted and lively head. Body is just right: not thin but not sticky either. Smooth: making "I’ll have another" come to mind before you are halfway through. Bitterness and strong chocolate malt flavors leave your tongue happy after every sip.

Bottle (341 ml). Pitch black with a red hue when held up against the light, medium creamy brown head. Strong roasted aroma with notes of coffee, dark chocolate, and gun powder. Medium bodied with smooth mouthfeel and low carbonation. Very dry with a lingering roasted bitterness. A tasy and genuine stout but I really cannot understand the high ratings of this one.

POurs deep black with notes of toast, oats, and cocoa on the nose. It becomes light and creamy on the palate and offers a very light finish.

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...