Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Brown Ale
Cigar City Brewing

Review: 2571
Name: Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Brown Ale
Brewery: Cigar City Brewing
Location: Tampa, FL
Style: English Brown Ale
ABV: 5.5%
Canned: 22 September 2025
Date: 07 March 2026
I thought I was going to call it a night, but I wanted to review another one. I am using a pint glass and serving the beer at 44 degrees. The pour produced a frothy, airy, off-white head with excellent retention. The slow dissipation left lots of lacing on the glass with a light head layer on the liquid. The color is copper red with amber hues, charting at SRM 12, and transparent. The appearance of the brown ale is above average.
Nosing the glass, I notice raisins, cinnamon, oatmeal, toffee, caramel, bread, malty sweetness, and figs. Smelling the beer again, I noticed vanilla, brown sugar, oats, and light roasty notes.
I taste oatmeal, toffee, caramel, cinnamon, raisins, and brown sugar. I am detecting a bit of floral hops, resin, bready, malty sweetness, earthiness, and dates.
The beer's mouthfeel is creamy and soft, finishing somewhat coating and a touch dry. The body is medium-light and medium carbonation.
Final Impression: The beer is what it says it is, an oatmeal cookie in a brown ale. I am glad the brewers used a deft hand with the cinnamon and sweetness, this could have turned into a cloyingly sweet sugar bomb. The cinnamon does lend some dryness to the beer and adds a slightly woody note. I am glad the cinnamon does not come across a dusty barn. Overall, it is a solid offering, but I will pass on getting this again.

does what it says. there's a risk of making something gimmicky here, an ale version of a pumpkin spice white claw (note: i have no idea if this is an actual thing), but the taste isn't cloying at all. fantastic as a nitecap.

A great Oatmeal Raisin Cookie brown ale made to satisfy any beer lover! I love the molasses taste and deep brown color.

 

 

Pours an effervescent & chill-hazed hazel with one finger of cream-colored head. Never completely loses the chill haze, below average head retention & lacing

S: Cinnamon & brown sugar, iron notes as well, first time I've smelled this in a brown ale. Nose didn't sell this for me

T: Follows the nose, minus the iron, some vanilla, a little dryness & a lot of oatmeal cookie here up front. Hints of raisin mix in with brown sugar, vanilla & cinnamon as this beer warms up, dryness, perhaps from the lactose? At touch of Pecan Hull bitterness as well, works for balance. Finishes a little dry with cookie sweetness & just a little nutty bitterness

MF: Medium body, slight carbonation, body thins a bit as this beer warms up

Credit where credit is due, they didn't go crazy with the cinnamon, pretty drinkable. If everything else was as good as the flavor, this would've been an A/A+ beer

 

If you like Oatmeal Raisin Cookies you'll like this Beer. They really hit it on the nose. Enjoyable to drink not over powering.
I don't know if I could drink more than a couple but a tasty beer.

 

 

 

 

Shared 355 ml can at Cardinal, Stavanger. Dark brown colour, beige head. Aroma and flavour of cookies (yes, really!), ginger and gingerbread, cinnamon, raisins and vanilla, fairly sweet.

 

 

 

 

 

Brown with an amber tinge, topped with forur fingers of beige head. It smells like cinnamon, raisin, brown malts.

Taste follows the nose. It taste like an oatmeal raisin cookie. Cinnamon and all.

Light br with light carbonation.

I got this in Waynesville North Carolina and I’m drinking it in Redding California July 24, 2020.