Terrapin Wake-n-Bake Coffee Oatmeal Imperial Stout

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

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.

2008 Bonus bottle from kp on 01/10/08. Thanks! Pours with little head, but eventually forms this dark tan small foamy ring around the edge of the glass. Thick black liquid. Dry, acidic, coffee aroma. Thick body. Dry, ashy, burnt flavor. Yuck. I don’t like these dry roasty beers. Thanks anyway.

Tap at Spuyten Duyvil: Near opaque pour with a deep brown head. Nose is just coffee grinds, nothing else. Extremely heavy body, really viscous. It basically tastes like used coffee grinds, with no malt character coming through and no balance. A disappointment.

Pours with no head whatsoever and some scant legs and deep black color. Aroma is sweet oatmeal, coffee, some astringency and alcohol present. Very coffee oatmeal- it’s like breakfast.... Obviously! Taste is sweet, cold coffee and touches of creamy oatmeal. There is not much of a depth of flavor, and the sweetness actually starts to dominate the beer- almost a simple sugar sweetness. Silky smooth on the tongue. Overall, a tasty beer.

Pours a very dark color with a minimal light brown head. Smells of coffee. Taste is coffee and a light sweetness. Medium body and somewhat bitter on the end. With a nice long finish.