Summit Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by Summit Brewing Company
Style: Sweet Stout
St. Paul, Minnesota USA

On draft at Teresa’s. Poured black with creamy tan head. Sweet, rich flavor with roasty malts and chocolate present. Smooth and very nice but a bit on a thin side.

Nitro pour at Barcade. Deep garnet tinted brown beer with a huge creamy tan head. Very thick and persistent head. Rich sweet aroma with lots of milk chocolate and toasted malt. There is a touch of soft char but that is quite subdued. Flavour is quite lovely. Soft cocoa and milk chocolate and a little bit of slick creamy character. Flavour also has a kiss of herbal character and a light fruitiness. It’s got a very creamy texture and a nice sweet maltiness without being heavy or cloying. A nice almost noble spiciness on the back that works surprisingly well. Very quaffable stout. I really enjoyed this.

Nitro at barcade - I agree with andy - this beer was very good - very creamy, and quite full in the mouth for the style - a ton of vanilla, chocolate, cookie dough, and a slight nuttiness - some espresso bitterness on the back end to temper the sweetness - I plowed through my pint of this.

Nitro tap at Barcade. At first this wasn’t doing it for me, but the more I drank it the more it grew on me. Nice toasty, roasty aroma, with notes of cookie and chocolate chip. Delicious flavor, perfectly chocolatey and dry. Supremely chuggable. Best beer I’ve had in a while, the kind of beer that made me want to put down the pen and stop ticking for the night. I didn’t, of course, but I should have. This beer was awesome, second to only Dieu du Ciel’s Aphrodisiaque in the Dry Stout style.

Nitro at Barcade. Pours a nice deep dark almsot black with a creamy orangey yellow beige head. Aroma is nice light coffee, dark roasted barley and chocolate malts with a nice subdued caramel sweetness and a bit of a lactic sugary sweetness as well. Good roast and chocoalte flavor with hints of molasses and licorice, with a toffee nuttiness as it dries towards the end of the palate- finsihes with a light milk sugar lacto sweetness. Pretty good.

On tap Groveland Tap St Paul MN. Pours a deep black/brown with hints of red. Espresso foamy head, lingering minimal lacing. Flavor is solid. Dry dark malt, oatmeal, a bit of molasses. Light bodied. Finish is diminishing. This is pretty damn good.

2008 Tap. This is an excellent Oatmeal Stout, perhaps the best I’ve ever had. Deep, dark chocolate color with a resiliant, beautiful cream-colored head. This head lasted ’til the end of the glass, which I nursed. Smells of chocolate, maybe a little fruit, and coffee. Tastes of dark, roasted malts and brown sugar with a light alcohol aftertaste. All the flavors work beautifully together, making this ultra-quaffable and fun to drink. Enjoy!

(draft) Creamy brown head atop medium black body. Aroma is medium sweetm chocolate, some coffee/roast, light cream. Taste is medium sweet, coffee, some chocolate, roast. Low carbonation, light-medium body.