St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout

Brewed by McAuslan Brewing
Style: Stout
Montreal, Canada

Beautiful stout on draft in Toronto. Nice balance of coffee, hops, chocolate and malts. Extremely drinkable. Excellent.

Dark look, black in color, decent tan colored head. The smell is roasty, oats, coffee, chocolate, slight sweetness, and malts. The taste is slight bitterness, coffee, chocolate, roast, and malts.

Bottle, $2.75 at Wine Warehouse in Charlottesville. Pours black with a brown head. Aroma of sweet malts. Flaor is dark chocolate and flowers. Finishes bitter.

Pours jet-ink black into the glass, with a nice thick mocha-tan head that reduces to a cap, leaving sticky suds lacing. The nose is all about roasted bitter chocolate. Flavors of bitter chocolates, anise, roasted malt, licorice, cocoa, and some light, well-complementary bitters to finish the pull. The body is extremely smooth, with subtle carbonation that well suits. The mouthfeel is complex, yet goes down super easily. Superb stout from McAuslan!

Location: 11.5 oz bottle from State Line, 11/13/09

Aroma: It has a strong brandy/boozy feel to it, along with that is some coffee, bitter chocolate, smoke, and roasted malts
Appearance: It pours a deep black color with a brown head that leaves a thin remnant and spotty lace through the duration
Flavor: The taste of this beer is dominated by the roasted malts and coffee with some licorice and smoke in there too
Palate: A smooth beer, though it doesn’t have that much body to it, especially for this style, its slightly thin
Overall Impression: It says Oatmeal Stout on the bottle, but I didn’t get a lot of oats. Mostly, more of a coffee/roasted stout from what I could taste. Anyway, it was quite different from what I was expecting from the nose, but still pretty good. A nice, enjoyable, and flavorful beer, it isn’t quite as good as the reputation would have lead me to believe, but still very solid indeed.

Bottle. Beautiful black ink pour with a very consistent head. Lots of roasted, chocolatey, coffee and malt aromas rise up from this one. Nice bitter roasted coffee balanced with some vanilla and malt sweetness in the taste with a creamy mouthfeel. Delicious

A: Poured with a small, tan head that retained as such throughout drinking. Body is jet-black and completely opaque. S: Nice aroma of roasted coffee beans... and some oats in there as well? T: Lots of roasted coffee, with a long duration - this beer stays with you when you’re done drinking it. Finish is slightly bitter and dry. M: Light-bodied with a creamy texture... not near as heavy as I was expecting. Carbonation is soft. D: Not something I could pound back all night, but is a beer like this really meant for that type of consumption? A great oatmeal stout that is best-enjoyed sipping slowly, as all the great beers are.

Pours a deep mocha brown with a sexy dark brown head. Great aroma of Hershey’s chocolate syrup, currants, and vanilla. Flavor is smoky with notes of roasted malt, chocolate, and espresso. There’s a heavily roasted, almost burnt aftertaste. Somewhat heavy and not as silky smooth as other oatmeal stouts. Still, it’s a delicious beer.