Stone 12th Anniversary Bitter Chocolate Oatmeal Stout

Bottle. One bad ass demon raising his glass to me. Dark black body with a creamy tan head 2 fingers deep. Bitter chocolate oats etoh burnt malt dry oat finish.

Pours thick black with a nice tan head. Aroma is malty and slighty chocolatey. Taste is coffe like and chocolatey as well with some bitterness from the oatmeal. Really good.

Pours jet black with small, dark tan head. There’s not a lot of carbonation, but the mouthfeel is still decent. The aroma wasn’t what I expected: some chocolate, alcohol, roasted malts, and slight coffee, but nothing spectacular. Taste was similar. Black coffee finish.

Bottle at patrick767’s event. Small tan head with good retention, fair amount of lacing, opaque, no visible carbonation, and a black hue. The aroma was chocolate, burnt, malt, and oats. The flavor was chocolate, bitter hops, coffee, slightly burnt tasting, and a semi-dry finish. A tingly and oily mouthfeel and medium bodied. Nice balance, another fine brew by Stone, worthy of a try, and I would drink this one again.

Draft @ Uber. Black with a nice mocha head. Very nice roastiness, chocolate, caramel in the aroma. Taste is roasty with chocolate and espresso. Not too impressed.

Poured black with a slight brown head. Nice aroma of roasted malts, caramel, chocolate, and some coffee. Taste is all of the aroma, along with a bitter hop bite and alcohol. Lingering taste of chocolate and malt. Very nice mouthfeel, with good carbonation keep this beer very drinkable without being watery.

22 oz bomber purchased from J. Barleycorns in Nashville. Poured a deep black color with a one fingerl brown head. The aroma was caramel, coffee and roasted malt. The flavor was caramel, coffee, oats and roasted malt, with a bit of bitter chocolate present. This was a great beer, and I hope to try this again in about a year.

This was sort of a let down to be honest. The appearance was very attractive though. Nice deep dark color with carbination clinging to the pint glass like a plague of flies. The head bubbled up to a tan and purple hue that had the cossistancey of the head on an ice cream soda. The smell was fair with a lot fo raison, dried fruit and dates but a definate alcohol note. The taste was a little surpriseing with a bit to sweet malt and alcohol which left me wondering, "where is the chocolate". Only later did i see that it was all in the finnish and gave a decent dose of bitter sweetness. I guess what kept this from a high rateing was to much alcohol lingering taste and it just became tiresome as a beer after about 8 ounches of it. I stopped being able to even notice the chocolate after taste. nearly became a chore to finnish.