St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by McAuslan Brewing
Style: Stout
Montreal, Canada

Bottle. Aroma of the corner coffee shop. I’m not a huge coffee drinker, in fact I probably drink coffee about four times a year, but this aroma just feels like a lovely, refreshing foray into a local, homely coffee establishment, and I love it. Sure there’s probably some more specific flavors in there, but in this case it’s definitely about the forest, not the trees. Flavor largely continues in this vain but also with some nice bitter chocolate/chocolate with bittering hops. Appearance almost garnered the rare 5, but the head wasn’t quite as refined as I require for a 5, dissipated a bit too fast...it’s pretty, I’d give it a 4.5, I’m just rambling to logically justify to myself my intense internal pull away from the 5. Mouthfeel solid, nothing special, nothing wanting. Great brew.

I guess it’s about time I re-rated this beer. absolute black with dark brown head. complex aroma of roasted coffee, raisins, figs, burnt sugar, roast, chcoclate, and oatmeal malt. silky smooth mouthfeel, full body. flavours are big but balanced, espresso, bitter chocolate, tart dried fruit and dark bread. finish perfectly balanced between roast and hop. classic.

[on tap at McKibbin’s Irish Pub] Totally opaque black with some dark ruby at clear parts of the glass. Light brown fizzy and foamy head. Grape and wine aroma with floral hops and fruity notes: apple, cherry, wood. Also sweet molasses in the aroma. The flavour begins with a gentle bitterness that yields to some fruit and then escalates to a robust molasses and roasted flavour. Peach and celery notes and a bitterness that comes from both the hops and malts. Chewy, full body with medium carbonation and a clean finish. Excellent.

Pours a murky black with a roasty caramel colored head. The aroma is wonderfully malty and bitter with hints of coffee/espresso. The flavor is an enjoyment from beginning to end, starting with some malt, slight sour with a sweet caramelly middle, finishing roasty and bitter with coffee, dark chocolate, espresso, and malt. We can’t forget the wonderfully creamy mouthfeel! Fantastic!

This is what sweet chocolately dreams are made of. . . Full aroma of oats, malt and chocolate. Dark and creamy, this beer is sweet candy on the tongue, this is when you wonder why can't this beer last forever. . .

12oz bottle from Santa (Crizay). Pours a beautiful, rich, oily black leaving a thick and creamy khaki head. Sweet mocha, dark bitter chocolate, espresso grounds. Bitter on the palate. Bitter roasted malt. Bitter chocolate. Lots of bitterness with little to balance. Medium bodied with a lot of bitter astrigincy. Meh.

Pours to a luxurious chocolate brown hue topped with a creeping web of mocha lace. Aroma is all sturdy graham cracker crust and vanilla extract with bits of sweetened, old espresso and flavored milk. Sweet, but belying a body full of chunky, muscley malt character. Flavor doesn’t deliver on that suggestion, settling for mostly sweet milk, metallic cheap coffee, sugar, and sterile cherry fruitiness. Coffee tones tend to carry a soapy, overextracted quality. Hops tend to present vegetally and with bits of old citrus rinds. Non dairy graham crust peeks in again with a wink of odd, tangy sweetness in the mid palate. Palate is light to medium bodied; brittle, unsupported, loose. Cinnamon tinted oatmeal and some iron water in a lengthy, earthy finish full of minerals. Plenty of unlikeable qualities here, but none to any obscene degree. Fair enough.

Poured a nice black color with a tan head.A strong hint of chocolate and coffe.Very smooth going down but did leave me tasting it a for a lil longer than i wanted.