Stout
Alaskan Brewing Co.

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From:
Alaskan Brewing Co.
 
Alaska, United States
Style:
Oatmeal Stout
ABV:
5.7%
Score:
84
Avg:
3.73 | pDev: 12.6%
Reviews:
222
Ratings:
455
Status:
Active
Rated:
Oct 16, 2019
Added:
Sep 03, 2001
Wants:
  38
Gots:
  46
The unique blend of the oats and malts in Alaskan Stout produce a balanced, smooth beer with hints of coffee and caramel.
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Ratings by MattyG85:
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Reviewed by MattyG85 from Minnesota

4.13/5  rDev +10.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Poured from 12 oz. bottle into a Sam Adams perfect pint glass.

Appearance: Pours a dark blackish brown with a light hint of ruby red on the bottom. Lots of bubbles and a solid three fingers of light tan head with good retention. Good amount of lacing on the glass.

Smell: Sweet dark roasted malts with hints of chocolate, oats, coffee, nuts, and caramel. Also some sugar and some subtle hints of dark fruits in the background. The oatmeal stands out nicely. Pretty solid smell.

Taste: A nice taste of roasted caramel malts with some good notes of chocolate, oatmeal, nuts, and coffee. A little bit of molasses and some light hints of dark fruits. Also a light presence of earthy hops that add some good balance.

Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with a moderate level of carbonation. Very creamy, slick, and lightly syrupy. Very smooth.

Overall: A very solid oatmeal stout. Nice complexity and the oatmeal flavor is pretty strong.
Apr 06, 2012
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.77 by craigbelly from Iowa

Oct 16, 2019
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Reviewed by deleted_user_1239096

4.29/5  rDev +15%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pours dark with a nice, creamy head. Taste is remarkably smooth, with some cocoa and coffee notes nicely balancing each other out. Finish is smooth, with a coffee finish. Definitely one of the better ones!
Jul 31, 2019
 
Rated: 3 by COBEERHUNTER from Colorado

Jul 14, 2018
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Reviewed by 1000lbgrizzly from Illinois

3.9/5  rDev +4.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Ultra black body with a tan, soapy, velvety head that fades to absolutely nothing. The nose has dark malt, molasses, charred toast, and a touch of dark chocolate. The taste is a bit sweeter, forgoing the bitterness to instead favor some sweeter malt and oat flavors, plus a nod to barbecue tang. The feel is rich, full, velvety and smooth.
This is a stout's stout. Nice dark flavors, rich body, no flaws. Ya.
May 29, 2018
 
Rated: 3.61 by ivyman from Massachusetts

Apr 04, 2018
 
Rated: 4.5 by 1971bernat from Virginia

Dec 28, 2017
 
Rated: 3.79 by TheCrowsEye from California

Dec 27, 2017
 
Rated: 4.1 by MidloRapid from Virginia

Oct 18, 2017
 
Rated: 3.49 by crewfan1952 from Ohio

Aug 25, 2017
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Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada

3.62/5  rDev -2.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Well for review #2900 I guess we can visit this beer that has been around for ~20 years. Pours black, 1/2" tan head. Looks solid. Aroma, mostly burnt malt giving off what we used to call mild coffee tones before breweries went all in on using coffee as an adjunct.

Taste is a straight up chewy malt excursion with some cascade and/or chinook hops to balance this boy out. Mouth feel is very good, chewy, just keeps rocking you and not in the alcohol sense. Lower carbonation is well placed to keep this smooth.

In a world of giant ass stouts and Chicago pours, this is a nice stout you can easily handle 12 oz of no problem. Good stuff, would share one of these with Dr. Carroll any day.
Aug 08, 2017
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Reviewed by tigg924 from Massachusetts

3.82/5  rDev +2.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Pours opaque, dark brown in color with 1/3 inch head. Taste is chocolate malt, roasted malt, followed by light oatmeal. Medium-heavy bodied, roasty with low carbonation. Makes for a solid, above average oatmeal stout that I would get again.
Aug 07, 2017
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Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont

3.83/5  rDev +2.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Poured into an English pint glass, the appearance was a rugged dark brown color with a finger's worth of white foamy head that stiffened and then moderately slid off. Some speckled to spotty lace ran around the glass somewhat nicely and then slid into the beer.
The aroma had some sweet roasted oats, then some oatmeal. Mild bitter dark chocolate particles weave their way around the oatmeal. Subtle earthy crisp hop joints at the end.
The flavor leaned into the roasted portion of the oats and added a light coffee bean sort of taste. Sly blended sort of roasty to sweet sort of aftertaste.
The mouthfeel was about medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. The fairly low ABV made it feel that way, I guess. Carbonation felt somewhat low, but didn't bother me as there was some grip from the roast along my tongue.
Overall, for the most part, it's a pretty nice oatmeal stout. I had to warm up to it but I understand this beer enough now to realize that Alaskan did a good job with this one.
Jun 30, 2017
 
Rated: 4.5 by Vylo from New Jersey

Jun 02, 2017
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Reviewed by StoutHunter from Michigan

3.73/5  rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
I picked up a bottle Alaskan's Stout for $1.69 at The Lager Mill. It's been a while since I've tried a new Stout and I thought I would take a chance on this one, so lets see how it goes. 2017 Vintage. Poured from a brown 12oz bottle into a Imperial pint glass.

A- The label looks nice, it's got a nice scenic design and it's just a little eye catching. It poured a dark black color that didn't let any light come through and it had two fingers worth of bubbly slightly darker tan head that died down to a thin ring that stayed till the end and it left a little bit of spotty lacing behind. This is a pretty nice looking stout, but I wish it had a little better lacing.

S- The aroma starts off with the a slightly higher amount of medium sweetness with the malts being the first to show up and they impart a mixture of dark malt, roasted malt, milk chocolate and sweet malt aromas with the milk chocolate being the aspect that sticks out the most in the aroma and it's followed by a pretty light nutty aroma. Up next comes a little bit of creaminess that goes into the yeast which imparts a little bit of an English Ale yeast like aroma and the end there's just a little more sweetness with a slight smokey aroma. This beer has a pretty nice aroma, I like the milk chocolate aspect.

T- The taste seems to be pretty similar to the aroma and it starts off with a slightly higher amount of medium sweetness with the malts still being the first to show up and they impart all the same aspects that they did in the aroma with the milk chocolate still sticking out the most with just a little more of a nutty aspect than I got in the aroma. Up next comes the yeast which shows up just as much as it did in the aroma and it goes into a little more of those sweet creamy flavors. On the finish there's a lighter amount of bitterness with some more sweetness and a slight smokey and charred malt flavors that goes into the aftertaste along with some more roasted malts and milk chocolate. This is a pretty nice tasting Stout, it's true to style and the it's well balanced.

M- Smooth, pretty crisp, slightly prickly, on the thicker side of being medium bodied with a higher amount of carbonation. The mouthfeel is nice, but I thought the carbonation could be a little lower.

Overall I thought this was a pretty nice beer and I thought it was a nice example of the style, it had most of the aspects that I look for in the style and when it came to the taste and aroma I thought the balance was really nice and it helped this beer out. This beer had nice drinkability, I could drink a couple of these, especially when it's colder out. What I like the most about this beer is the balance and the milk chocolate flavors, to me those were the highlight of this beer. What I like the least ab out this beer was the carbonation, it would be a little better if it was toned down some. I would get this beer again when looking for a solid stout and I would recommend it to anyone looking for the same. All in all I liked this beer and I thought Alaskan brewery did a good job with this one, but it was slightly rough around the edges when it came to the mouth feel. It's not a favorite Alaskan beer and it's a solid example of the style. Nice job guys, this is a solid and tasty stout, keep up the hard work.
Apr 27, 2017
 
Rated: 3.75 by PackenGreen from Michigan

Mar 09, 2017
 
Rated: 4.09 by SpaceBeagle from Utah

Jan 22, 2017
 
Rated: 3.83 by DownyIsHungry from Minnesota

Jan 17, 2017
 
Rated: 2.23 by KnappStout from Wisconsin

Jan 04, 2017
 
Rated: 3.83 by jakea from Wisconsin

Oct 18, 2016
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