Stone 12th Anniversary Bitter Chocolate Oatmeal Stout

Dark black pour...light amber cap. Aroma of coffee and chocolate. Taste is bitter chocolate with malt and a smooth finish.

Poured jet black with a small clean head. Lacing littered the sides of the glass. Aroma is strong of roasted oats, coffee, and deliciousness. My god this Stone brew. It’s smooth, the oats are playing the sidekick roll to the bitter chocolate and roasted coffee, but the oats come through and the body is just perfect. Alcohol is hidden very well, but is there and pleasant.

Bottle from the Stone Company Store..Pours black as night with a brown dissipating head.. The only thing I can pick up in the smell is some dark chocolate and a little booze...Taste is mostly dark chocolate that lingers for a while.. Very good beer, Smooth and silky.

Dark black-brown warm and milky hue. Sweet malty aroma beckons and reveals a super-smooth, silken and sweet body. Really nice and smooth throughout, neither too roasty nor too sweet.

This stuff is good...scratch that GREAT!!. Chocolate and Coffee. Very smooth. You can taste the ABV% Everyone should try this.

I had to have this beer a few different times to make sure my opinion of the beer was on target, because it’s a small shock to the system when someone regularly make top-notch products, but then puts forth something less than what is expected. The beer has all the makings of a classic imperial stout except for one small problem. It just doesn’t taste very good. Perhaps a little age and things will come together a bit better, but I had 3 about 60 days apart and neither time did it for me.

The beer pours out a deep midnight black with a beautiful 1" thich creamy tan head. The head lasted the entire pint, and left behind some really intricate lacing. Aromas were dark chocolate, but it reminded me more of smelling the inside of a Hershey’s baking chocolate tin, than smelling something rich and decadent. Other notes of Raisinettes, coffee, a touch of treacle and a bit of vanilla extract. Flavors just had an overpowering alcohol effect for me, with that low-grade chocolate flavoring trying to blend with the alcohol. A bit of figs helps to even the alcohol out with some sweetness along with some coffee, but I thought that it was just too hot. I can see this being tasty in 2-3 years and I will definitely re-rate. I’ve got about 5-6 more bottles so I can be patient. It has to be better, doesn’t it?

Jet black pour with dark brown head and lace. Burnt chocolate and coffee on the nose. A rich sweet chocolate flavor on the front followed by a hint of abv. A light bitter finish. Very smooth creamy mouthfeel with good carbonation as well. A very special beer with a bitter that grows on you after the deed.

[2023-20090227] 1pt6floz bottle. Minty roasted malt aroma with some dark chocolate notes. Dark brown black body with a quick foamy light brown head. Lots of chocolate roast malt flavour has a dense base and a long roasted finish. Full body. Drinkable and stouty, two of my favourite beer things.
(w/ jerc)