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Oatmeal Stout
Goose Island Beer Co.
- From:
- Goose Island Beer Co.
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- Oatmeal Stout
- ABV:
- 5.4%
- Score:
- 86
- Avg:
- 3.84 | pDev: 10.94%
- Reviews:
- 451
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 21, 2021
- Added:
- Jul 25, 2002
- Wants:
- 36
- Gots:
- 9
No description / notes.
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Ratings by Zorro:
Reviewed by Zorro from California
3.9/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 4
3.9/5 rDev +1.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 4
Pours a deep dark brown brew with red highlights.
Smell is sweet and malty with a healthy chocolate and fruit scent. There are also coffee and smoke scents in this.
Taste is a little sweet with a chocolate and coffee flavor that hits you immediately. No harshness from too much over roasted malt. Fair amount of fruitiness in this. Proportional bitterness here to balance the sweetness.
If this brew has a weakness it is in the Mouthfeel, it is light for an oatmeal stout.
Nice drinkable stout. Will not satisfy Stout purists. Tasty drinkable brew that isn't rough and tough.
Feb 27, 2005Smell is sweet and malty with a healthy chocolate and fruit scent. There are also coffee and smoke scents in this.
Taste is a little sweet with a chocolate and coffee flavor that hits you immediately. No harshness from too much over roasted malt. Fair amount of fruitiness in this. Proportional bitterness here to balance the sweetness.
If this brew has a weakness it is in the Mouthfeel, it is light for an oatmeal stout.
Nice drinkable stout. Will not satisfy Stout purists. Tasty drinkable brew that isn't rough and tough.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Franziskaner from Missouri
3.87/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.87/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Dark brown to light black with minimal light penetration. There's a fingernail of beige about the size of a quarter in the middle of the glass. The aroma is of sweet oatmeal and bakers chocolate. I'm tasting chocolate and oatmeal. The mouth is lightly oily and chewy.
Nov 18, 2017Reviewed by barnzy78 from Illinois
3.59/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.59/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
I used to buy this all the time before it was discontinued in 2010. Now it's back with a slightly adjusted ABV from 5.1% to 5.4% along with a new label. I contacted the brewer about the change in ABV, but unfortunately didn't get a useful answer.
2017 - 12oz, bottled on 27JUL17.
Pours jet black with a creamy tan head. Heavy roasted nose with char, chocolate, and oats in the background. Bold roasted barley with dark chocolate, earthy hops, faint anise, burnt coffee, and oats. Fuller side of medium for body; quite astringent, finishing dry with char remaining on the palate. Overall, big roasty oatmeal stout. The char and burnt flavors get a bit overbearing, but it's not bad enough to deter me from liking the beer. Nice to come back to this one after all those years.
Oct 25, 20172017 - 12oz, bottled on 27JUL17.
Pours jet black with a creamy tan head. Heavy roasted nose with char, chocolate, and oats in the background. Bold roasted barley with dark chocolate, earthy hops, faint anise, burnt coffee, and oats. Fuller side of medium for body; quite astringent, finishing dry with char remaining on the palate. Overall, big roasty oatmeal stout. The char and burnt flavors get a bit overbearing, but it's not bad enough to deter me from liking the beer. Nice to come back to this one after all those years.
Oatmeal Stout from Goose Island Beer Co.
Beer rating:
86 out of
100 with
577 ratings
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