 curly (649), Nashville, Tennessee, USA
| 4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Oct 29, 2009
Pours solid black with a thick brown head. Aroma is dark chocolate, coffee, cream, and some smoke. Taste is a bitter chocolate, oat, cocoa and finishes with bitter roast. Medium thin body
cazort (419), Newark, Delaware, USA
| 4.1 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 5/5 | 7/10 | 5/5 | 17/20 |
Dec 17, 2009 Aroma dark, deep, and like wine. Dry and yet with a sweet-smelling quality lingering...rich and full and yet with a lightness and refreshing quality to it. For once, I think a top-ranked beer is not over-rated. This beer is truly outstanding!
hawthorne00 (124), Australia
| 4.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 19/20 |
Dec 17, 2009 Black, medium crema head. Coffee and bitter chocolate nose. Singed flavours. Sweet and singed malts and vanilla. Just medium bodied - it’s pretty light for the style, particularly considering the oats. Dry finish.This is not a particularly complex beer: it just has a few things that work together very harmoniously. Neither (for a stout) is it an attention-grabber - more of an intimate caress. Great.
nickd717 (1384), Palo Alto, California, USA
| 3.8 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 8/10 | 4/5 | 15/20 |
Dec 13, 2009 Bottle sent by ben4321 in a trade. Thanks, Ben, this was a good one.
Pours black in color with a one-finger beige head that leaves a little film on the beer after awhile.
Aroma is roast, chocolate, and coffee. Pretty typical for an oatmeal stout.
Flavor is very interesting. Starts out as a pretty standard but well-balanced stout with chocolate and espresso notes. Then the roast really hits you. Really gets intense in the finish. There’s also a nice oatmeal/milk character in there.
Palate is smooth but fairly light. This is not a terrible thing, as it adds to the drinkability. Leaves a little char in your mouth.
guil0000 (107), New Brunswick, Canada
| 4.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 9/10 | 5/5 | 9/10 | 3/5 | 18/20 |
Dec 10, 2009 341 ml bottle. Pours dark black with a mocha beige head. Strong notes espresso, coffee, chocolate . My favorite stout to date . Really good
Travlr (771), Washington, Washington DC, USA
| 4.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 5/5 | 8/10 | 5/5 | 17/20 |
Dec 7, 2009 Dark opaque brown with a thick creamy beige head and solid lacing.
Aroma of cocoa powder and burnt coffee beans.
Tastes of bitter chocolate and caramel, not much of a finish, which was the only thing preventing a 4.5 taste rating.
Positively chewy, excellent body.
Classic example of the style, well worth seeking out.
TheCaptain (559), Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
| 3.7 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 17/20 |
Dec 7, 2009 Bottle, poured a coffee black into a chalice. Small sudsy head which simmered to a ring around the glass. Aroma of light roasted malts, meal and liquorice. Taste is a slight roast, dark chocolate espresso with some light chalky bitterness. Espresso oatmeal body, a little thin which as it warms up is tasting pretty good.
Lackey (1), toronto, Ontario, Canada
does not count  | 4.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 9/10 | 4/5 | 18/20 |
Dec 2, 2009 Beautiful stout on draft in Toronto. Nice balance of coffee, hops, chocolate and malts. Extremely drinkable. Excellent.
travita (1941), Frisco, Texas, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 |
Nov 28, 2009 Dark look, black in color, decent tan colored head. The smell is roasty, oats, coffee, chocolate, slight sweetness, and malts. The taste is slight bitterness, coffee, chocolate, roast, and malts.
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