Stone 12th Anniversary Bitter Chocolate Oatmeal Stout

Formerly brewed at Stone Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial Stout
Escondido, California USA

Bottle. Pours dark black with a small creamy brown head and some slippery lacework. Aroma of roasted malts, chocolate, caramel, dark fruit and a hint of vanilla. Flavor is creamy and roasty with rich dark chocolate, coffee, alcohol, molasses and a touch of toffee. Medium to full bodied with a rich texture and a dry roasty finish

Sample from January 24, 2009 Beer Club meeting. This sucker is so dense that the bottle is heavy! Excellent appearance. Solid black color with a reddish-brown head. Bitter, sweet, alcoholic aroma. Easy drinking. Thick and meaty oatmeal, chocolaty, and a little fruity. Spicy, effervescent at the back of the throat. Very viscous!

Black in color with a small tan head. Aroma is of dark chocolate, oats, and coffee but the smell is faint. Taste is of coffee beans, oatmel, caramel and dark chocolate.

Black with fine carbonation and a thin, brown head which quickly disappears. Minimal lace. Strong dark chocolate all the way through to a lingering aftertaste, with some faint fruit flavours in the aroma and malty nose. The oatmeal is very subtle, but there all the way through to the end. The bitter adjective applies primarily to the chocolate part and not the stout itself. A top performer among sweet stouts.

Bottle courtesy BelgianBeerGal. Pours a thick black oily color with a thin dark tan head. Chocolate malt, oatmeal silkiness, roasted grains and dark fruit aroma. Thick dark chocolate bar, dark fruit taste with a nice oatmeal silkiness. Finishes with a bitter chocolate and coffee dryness. Very good.

A very warm ale, with incredibly powerful coffee, roast and chocolate notes. Burnt character, incredibly bitter, with slight toffee, oatmeal, vanilla, molasses and bark-earth. This is a much dryer and bitter beer than their usual imperial stout, and has a greater hop presence and bitterness in the finish.

Bottle. Poured black with a brown head that had a thin layer lasting and light lace. Nice aromas of roast coffee, chocolate, light alcohol, and a hoppy bitter background. The flavor is rich with chocolate, coffee, and roast. Full body with a bitter cofffee aftertaste. Another great impy stout from Stone.

bomber shared at Tupalev’s KW group tasting. black pour with a small tan head. nice looking stout in the glass. aroma of dark chocolate and hops. the flavour is very much about bitter dark chocolate, other impy stout flavours as well but the dark chocolate stands out from the rest. a thinner mouthfeel then i was expecting and i think a bomber of this wouldnt drink as easy as some other impy stouts. we had the regular stone imperial stout right after this one and i much prefered that. thanks for the bomber share to whoever brought this.