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Oatmeal Porter
Zipline Brewing Co
- From:
- Zipline Brewing Co
- Nebraska, United States
- Style:
- American Porter
Ranked #187 - ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 87
Ranked #16,009 - Avg:
- 3.89 | pDev: 9.51%
- Reviews:
- 34
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 15, 2022
- Added:
- Apr 21, 2013
- Wants:
- 5
- Gots:
- 36
All the dark chocolate and coffee notes you expect from a porter with locally sourced, rolled oats delivering an uncommonly silky smooth finish.
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Ratings by tempest:
Reviewed by tempest from New York
4.13/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.13/5 rDev +6.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Yup, definitely an oatmeal beer. So smooth. It could be hard to pick apart from an oatmeal stout, drinking it blind. This beer has more of a milk chocolate character and less roast, like a porter should.
Mar 03, 2015More User Ratings:
Reviewed by dd53grif from Michigan
3.85/5 rDev -1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev -1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
A Microbrewed Beer Club offering. Pours a dark brown color with a minimal head that disappears quickly. Aroma of dark fruits and roasted malts. Taste is slightly sweet black coffee. Smooth and creamy.
Dec 15, 2022Reviewed by ChainGangGuy from Georgia
4/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +2.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Appearance: Pours a dark brown, near black body with a medium-small, light khaki-colored head.
Smell: Roast-leaning grains, harsh-toned coffee grinds with some burnt toast elements and distant hints at barbecued chocolate chunks.
Taste: Roasty malts tasting of coffee scorched on a long-running carafe burner element, heavily bitter chocolate with just a faint, few, sparse touches of cream and a little bit of nice sweetness doing its best to soften things.
Mouthfeel: Medium-light body. Medium carbonation.
Overall: If you were expecting something light, sweet, smooth and easy-going, you'll be treated to an open-handed slap to the kisser.
Oct 22, 2022Smell: Roast-leaning grains, harsh-toned coffee grinds with some burnt toast elements and distant hints at barbecued chocolate chunks.
Taste: Roasty malts tasting of coffee scorched on a long-running carafe burner element, heavily bitter chocolate with just a faint, few, sparse touches of cream and a little bit of nice sweetness doing its best to soften things.
Mouthfeel: Medium-light body. Medium carbonation.
Overall: If you were expecting something light, sweet, smooth and easy-going, you'll be treated to an open-handed slap to the kisser.
Rated by Pivopijak from Washington
3.58/5 rDev -8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.58/5 rDev -8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
draught
Dark brown, with some orange highlights. Light aromas of lightly toasted malt and grain. Thin, roasted grain flavor.
Apr 08, 2022Dark brown, with some orange highlights. Light aromas of lightly toasted malt and grain. Thin, roasted grain flavor.
Reviewed by argock from Virginia
4.12/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.12/5 rDev +5.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Best by 11Aug21. Poured into a glass tumbler.
A: Dark brown with 1-finger beige foamy head with decent retention and skimpy lacing.
S: Delicious cocoa, light roast, espresso, and light caramel
T: Flavor is a bit lower intensity but still excellent with milk chocolate, cocoa, medium roast, light caramel, and dark malt.
M: medium bodied with low carbonation and full finish.
O: Stellar dark beer by Zipline
Jul 11, 2021A: Dark brown with 1-finger beige foamy head with decent retention and skimpy lacing.
S: Delicious cocoa, light roast, espresso, and light caramel
T: Flavor is a bit lower intensity but still excellent with milk chocolate, cocoa, medium roast, light caramel, and dark malt.
M: medium bodied with low carbonation and full finish.
O: Stellar dark beer by Zipline
Reviewed by erosier from Connecticut
4.24/5 rDev +9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.24/5 rDev +9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pours a nice dark brown almost black with a short light brown head dissipates pretty quickly to a nice ring around the glass. Aroma of sweet roasted dark malts, a hint of confectioners sugar at the end. Tastes of sweet deep roasted malts, a hint of light hops at the end and done mellow sweetness from the oats. It's crispy, roasty, bitter, and sweet. Overall, I dig it.
May 07, 2021Reviewed by jjamadorphd from Florida
3.98/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.98/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
I really found this one to be sweeter than most...
Great looking like most, a very good nose to this one with a deep cocoa smell and coffee, the taste was all porter but with a slight sweetness. Mouthfeel is very carbonated with a tad watery finish across the tongue. Overall, a very fine porter, unique, and one that is truly a great representative of the heartland.
Aug 22, 2020Great looking like most, a very good nose to this one with a deep cocoa smell and coffee, the taste was all porter but with a slight sweetness. Mouthfeel is very carbonated with a tad watery finish across the tongue. Overall, a very fine porter, unique, and one that is truly a great representative of the heartland.
Reviewed by ZAP from Minnesota
4.25/5 rDev +9.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.25/5 rDev +9.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Very enjoyable porter. Chocolate, coffee, vanilla coffee creamer like base...Great aroma...flavor is similar...
The oats add a creaminess to this....Medium bodied. It's listed at 6 bills for abv. Not boozy or too rich. Drinks nice and with a nice flavor. It's the kind of porter a guy could session.
Aug 04, 2020The oats add a creaminess to this....Medium bodied. It's listed at 6 bills for abv. Not boozy or too rich. Drinks nice and with a nice flavor. It's the kind of porter a guy could session.
Reviewed by Scott17Taylor from Iowa
4.15/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
4.15/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
this is a very good porter, it’s big and roasty with tons of that dark malty sweetness, chocolate, coffee etc. the mouthfeel is super creamy and it is bone dry without being overly bitter. Ohenomenal beer.
Feb 25, 2020Reviewed by NebraskaBill
3.48/5 rDev -10.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.48/5 rDev -10.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Look - typical for this style, but, little light on the head
Smell - very toasty, with a bit of grain
Taste - very smooth and balanced, but without something to really hang its hat on.
Feel - on the lighter side for a porter.
Leaves me wanting a bit more.
Overall - a decent beer and certainly one I would be happy to drink, but there are others I prefer much more from Zipline.
Dec 25, 2019Smell - very toasty, with a bit of grain
Taste - very smooth and balanced, but without something to really hang its hat on.
Feel - on the lighter side for a porter.
Leaves me wanting a bit more.
Overall - a decent beer and certainly one I would be happy to drink, but there are others I prefer much more from Zipline.
Reviewed by Mindcrime1000 from South Dakota
3.88/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
3.88/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Poured from a bottle into a tulip.
Pours opaque nearly-black brown, with a fine tan head that retains fairly well, and excellent lacing.
Aromas of coffee, cocoa, cola, lightly-toasted oats.
The flavors are not as sweet as the aromas, and that is a fine thing. Toasted oats forward with coffee and chocolate milk flavors arriving at mid-palate. Just a bit of drying astringency at the finish.
The brew is medium-bodied, smooth, and still well-carbonated.
Overall, a brew that brings stout-level flavor married to a lighter porter body. A nice dark oatmeal brew.
Aug 24, 2019Pours opaque nearly-black brown, with a fine tan head that retains fairly well, and excellent lacing.
Aromas of coffee, cocoa, cola, lightly-toasted oats.
The flavors are not as sweet as the aromas, and that is a fine thing. Toasted oats forward with coffee and chocolate milk flavors arriving at mid-palate. Just a bit of drying astringency at the finish.
The brew is medium-bodied, smooth, and still well-carbonated.
Overall, a brew that brings stout-level flavor married to a lighter porter body. A nice dark oatmeal brew.
Oatmeal Porter from Zipline Brewing Co
Beer rating:
87 out of
100 with
143 ratings
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