Terrapin Wake-n-Bake Coffee Oatmeal Imperial Stout

Brewed by Terrapin Beer Company
Style: Imperial Stout
Athens, Georgia USA

Pours a pitch black with a coffee colored head. Aroma dominated by roasted coffee, also containing malty chocolate and toffee. Extremely smooth tasting with lost of roasted coffee maltiness, chocolate, caramel, toffee and oatmeal.

Thanks ncvbc for the chance to sample this brew the 12 oz bottle poured into my sniffer produced a fingers worth of cocoa colored head that dissipates into a nice ring of lace around the glass. The black coffee colored body kind of made me want to pour it into a coffee cup instead though. Aromas of black coffee, warm oatmeal, and a light chocolate smell filled my head. Taste like my morning coffee actually, the oatmeal helps mellow out the strong bitterness of the coffee and gives it a little sweetness. The pallet is just creamy enough to fool my tongue into believing that there is cream in it. Nice and creamy mouth feel no carbonation so very thing. Very drinkable but definitely a sipper because that is the way I enjoy my coffee.

Bottle, thank you Unclemattie! Brilliant potent java aroma offers more than just coffee: there is a big slice of Black Forest cake on the plate too. The pour is thick and tarry like striking oil. Hardly any head but has tan surface layer like a shot of espresso does. Little to no lace. Mouthfeel is mind-blowingly silky and incredibly chewy. Slight thinning out towards the finish has the effect of making me want more; it is deceptively light. Remarkably creamy, just the right bitterness, like cappuccino grew up and became beer.

Yup, liked it. Ultra-black beer that pours thick and oily like a world class imp stout. There isn’t much complexity to this guy, all malty coffeeness with tons and tons and tons of roastidy roast. Dark brown head that quickly dissipates to nothing. Very excellent indeed, and while it is perhaps very simple, it is done perfectly.

12oz bottle. Aroma is of coffee, chocolate, some hops. Nice black hue with a tan averaged sized head that mostly diminished and left virtually no lace. Flavor is chocolate, coffee, and malt. Palate is flat and medium full bodied. A good Imp stout but low on ABV and has a slightly off metallic character to it.

12 oz. bottle courtesy of tjthresh. 2006 Monster Beer Tour as listed on label. Initial pour was ALL foam, filled the entire glass with a coca cola head. Next pour was done fair more carefully, this time, was a still a huge head, big foamy and bubbly deep tan with an all black body. Visible carbonation is bubbling out of this one for several minutes until the head settled. Aroma of dusty earthiness, roasted malt, and some roast coffee. The coffee was actually pretty muted and smelled more of old coffee in the can than fresh brewed. Taste is much more of the coffee, somehow fresher tasting than smelling, layered on top of a pretty thin stout body. The carbonation was very much still involved in the taste as well, making this a bit disarming. The taste also has some sweetness (cocoa / chocolate) that was not evident in the nose. After the carbonation on this one settled down, it was tasty. Thanks for this one Tom!

Essentially opaque black but there’s not alot of light at redlight. Smallish head. Huge cofee aroma with touches of chocolate. A bit harsh with astringent over-extracted coffee flavors and a long bitter coffee finish. too harsh in the end, not very pleasant. Rerate: less harsh and astringent with a smoother and slightly sweeter presentation, with an easier finish that is just a more pleasant lingering coffee overtone. I’ll bump the numbers up from the older 3.1 rating.

12oz bottle. Pours syrupy thick dark brown with nearly no head at all until it settles into the glass and rests for a while. Nose of starchy coffee and hops, some toffee and tin, and some greenish vegetable and vanilla notes. Texture is moderately thick, a little oily, moderately firm, and tastes basically for toffee and honey mixed with bright coffee, with a low-carbonation but not thin texture that flow into a chocolate syrup and donut finish. Coffee? Oatmeal? Stout? I like.