Stone 12th Anniversary Bitter Chocolate Oatmeal Stout

Bottle. Black pour, nice looking moderately thick very dark tan head. Chocolate gingerbread cookie aroma, a ton of roast and powdered cocoa. Palate thinner than expected, but still a ton of bitter roast and chocolate, not too heavy. Well done.

Crushed with Jakebra. Very bitter nose, coffee and dark bitter-as-hell chocolate. Pour is beautiful. Very, very, very dry, almost tongue-stuck-to-the-roof-of-the-mouth dry. Very roasty, medium to full bodied, with much bitterness. A pretty sexy beer.

Pours as black as motor oil with a dark brown frothy head. Aromas of sweet chocolate, cocoa, hops, and barely. The flavor is of bitter chocolate but with a slight sweetness. There is a noticeable alcohol taste and burnt malt. The hops come through in the flavor but under all the other flavors. Other flavors of liquorice and coffee. Bitter end and well balanced. Milky texture and smooth. A good stout!

DEEP black and full flavored with chocolate and i think blackberry brandy. somewhat fragrant yeasty,, smooth and satisfying the bitter chocolate was perfect to accentuate and appease the hop head in me. alcohol is evident and appreciated i did enjoy this beer and it’s well balanced approach to flavored brew. a success!

Draught at the Freakin’ Frog, Las Vegas
Black color. Poor aroma, light roasted malt and chocolate. The mouthfeel is quite soft, with mild coffee flavor, chocolate; difficult to detect oatmeal characteristics. Side-to-side with a Drake’s Imperial Stout and Deschutes Imperial Porter, this is by far the least interesting.

Multiple 22 oz bombers over its run. Beautiful dark pour with a light brown medium sized head. They don’t stint on the bitterness in the chocolate, which could have been a novelty but paid off quite well. Well balanced with a little bit of sweetness in the body so as to not turn off pickier drinkers. I’m going to miss this one when it’s gone.

Draught at GABF 2008. Pitch black coloured with a medium sized beige head. Roasted aroma dominated by dark chocolate. Roasted flavour of dark chocolate, coffee and liquorice with notes of hops and alcohol. Roasted and hoppy finish.

Pitch black pour with a quarter inch brown head that fades quickly. Aroma of toasted malt and chocolate. Flavor is dark, rich chocolate syrup with a semi-sweet finish. Pleasantly bitter. Like an alcohol-infused Hershey’s Special dark. Very good.