Oatmeal Coffee Stout
(512) Brewing Company

RB transfer

Appearance: 5/5 - The beer's appearance is very enticing, with a dark and black body, rich tan head, and lacing on the glass.

Aroma: 4/5 - The aroma of sweet molasses, dark brown sugar, coffee, roasted malts, fig, and fermented red grapes sounds delicious and tempting.

Taste: 3/5 - The combination of sweet molasses, mild coffee bitterness, and crispness, along with fig and grape flavors, is appealing and leaves the desire for more.

Mouthfeel: 3/5 - The mouthfeel is on the lighter side, which may not be typical for a Stout, but it still complements the flavors well.

Overall: 4/5 - This American Stout seems to be a tasty and enjoyable beer, with a unique twist on the style. The description is enticing, and it seems like a beer worth trying, especially if you come across it on a lonely road Texas.

Appearance: A deep mahogany body, verging on black and utterly opaque, presents a massive and dense tan head, several inches in height, with excellent retention. The lacing is thick, fine-beaded and glass coating.

Aroma: A dense aroma of toasted oatmeal, coffee, and bitter cocoa presents. Notably absent is any hint of the considerable ABV of 8.5%.

Taste: On tasting, one is greeted with toasted oatmeal, dark malt, roasted coffee, and bitter cocoa, these flavors dominate the taste throughout. Along the way there is a little molasses and brown sugar, although this is restrained. As with the aroma, the alcohol is absent, other than a gracious moment of warmth. The finish offers a lingering note of cold coffee and bitter cocoa.

Mouth feel: Rich, full, soft and very pleasant, with just a bit of sharp carbonation.

Drinkability/notes: Just excellent, 512 has reimagined the oatmeal stout, and it is superb. Forget mimosas, this would seem to be a wonderful breakfast beer on a stay at home day.

Presentation: Packaged in a standard twelve-ounce aluminum can, served in a La Fin du Monde tulip.

Poured from a can into a pint glass
Appearance – The beer pours a deep brown color with a small head of tan colored foam. The head fades rather fast leaving a light level of foamy lace on the sides of the glass.
Smell – The aroma is strong of a coffee aroma mixed with lots of oatmeal and a bit of bitter char. Along with these smells comes a little bit of a cocoa small and a touch of brown sugar sweetness. Overall, the aroma is quite dark and heavy smelling.
Taste – The taste begins as would be anticipated from the nose, with a dark roasted malt flavor mixed with lots of bitter coffee and a touch of molasses and brown sugar. There is a light cocoa flavor upfront, with this being lost as the flavor advances forward and more bitter coffee and some char comes to the tongue. There is a light vanilla sweetness and a some more brown sugar that develop more towards the end. All the while there is a rather strong showing of a oatmeal flavor, mixing with all the other flavors and leaving one with a very dark, and somewhat bitter, but overall balanced dark coffee oat taste to linger on the tongue.
Mouthfeel – The body of the brew is on the more thick and chewy side with a carbonation level that is moderate to high for the style. A little less carbonation would have been better for the dark and oat flavors, but overall, it did cut the bitterness a touch, so the feel was pretty decent in the end.
Overall -A rather thick oaty and roasty stout with a decently pronounced coffee flavor. Overall, rather enjoyable, and worth at least a try if the opportunity arises.

 

 

On-draught @ 512. Free.

Coffee lacks depth and character. Stout base is dreadfully simple...just chocolate malts and dark malts (no overt roasted barley or char).

Thick for its shallowness of flavour.

Drinkable. Not dazzling.

C+ / ABOVE AVERAGE