Double Espresso Wild Oat Stout
Black Wolf Brewery

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From:
Black Wolf Brewery
 
Scotland, United Kingdom
Style:
Oatmeal Stout
ABV:
4.8%
Score:
Needs more ratings
Avg:
3.92 | pDev: 13.52%
Reviews:
4
Ratings:
4
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Mar 24, 2011
Added:
Nov 17, 2010
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Ratings by AEK:
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Reviewed by AEK from Wales

4.75/5  rDev +21.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4 | overall: 5
I have stated that this is a limited offering as it is not on TSA's website so am assuming it was only brewed for JD Wetherspoons beer fest. Hopefully it may become a regular!!! Also, no stout is available under the Scottish Ales so I have shoved it under English stout which is incorrect but it's the nearest thing I guess.

A. Deep black beer with a thin tanned head.

S. Nuances of coffee essence, some wood smoke and some treacle too.

T. Intense/almost overpowering strong espresso taste. Milk chocolate. A slight creamyness and some hints of nuttiness.

M. Medium, smooth and chewy.

D. An excellent coffee stout which I personally think is even better than Dark Star's Espresso Stout. If you haven't tried it yet then seek it out as if you like intense tasting stouts then you certainly will not be disappointed in this one.
Nov 17, 2010
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Reviewed by CanuckRover from Canada (ON)

3.5/5  rDev -10.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Black with short tan head.

Quite sweet aroma. More milk chocolate than anything else. Hints of strong malt flavours, also sweet.

Interesting. Sweet up front, almost doesn't taste like beer. Chocolate with a touch os espresso. Biscuity malt part way through gives way to some oddly hot alcohol. Overall impression of an Irish Coffee, less so of a beer.

A bit too smooth if anything, again, mimics a dessert coffee.

This isn't bad. Above average. Kind of a milk stout really. One pint was enough.
Mar 24, 2011
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Reviewed by AgentMunky from New York

3.99/5  rDev +1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Served in a half-pint glass at the Whey Pat in St Andrews. Reviewed December 2010.

A: Pitch-black, with a red glint. Nice, white head.

S: Vanilla bean, cacao, ground coffee, expensive Starbucks blends. I don't even like coffee and this is damned delicious. Big and fat. Incredibly impressive.

T: Strong espresso bursts adorn an otherwise intermittently-sour and decidedly disappointing maintaste. The aftertaste is smooth and bitter, with hints of vanilla and chocolate.

M: Smooth, light, watery-sour, and meh.

D: Despite the flavour(less) letdown, still a grand espresso stout and rather yummy, in its way.

EDIT: Having had this beer a second time (from a different cask), the flavour was much more powerful and pleasant. As such, I'm bumping the Taste from 3 to 3.5, and adding a solid recommendation to try this one. (April 2011)
Feb 28, 2011
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Reviewed by wl0307 from England

3.43/5  rDev -12.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
(Notes of 11/2010) Tasted by a half-pint at the John Russell Fox, a JDW pub in Andover, during the chain's beer festival in Autumn 2010; served by a non-sparkler pull. Notes: hop varieties used are First Gold, Hallertau and Smarago.

A: semi-black body topped with a tan creamy beer head with good retention.
S: less black malts than chocolate malts, plus a dash of chocolate syrup & coffee syrup, with assertive vanilla hints. Too sweet, at the expense of any balance. Secondary notes consist of sweet red beans + faint sourness.
T: not so... sweet on the palate as on the nose, the foretaste is in fact lightly sour on top of bittersweet & bean-ish maltiness with a touch of biscuity malts even, with espresso syrup, chocolate fudge and vanilla-ish cocoa lingering well in the aftertaste, occasionally hinting at licorice powder & roasty aroma as of black malts (or oats!).
M&D: medium-bodied, smooth enough on the palate and very light on carbonation (or, not far from being flat). Brewed exclusively as a coffee stout with "double-strength coffee beans" (according to the notes), this is unsurprisingly an unbalanced coffee-ish & chocolaty stout, but it really lacks a distinct coffee-ish depth & bitterness as balancers against the sweet elements, while "wild oats" are overpowered by coffee elements, hence not much trace of its aroma or smoothness felt on the palate. OK drinkability.
Dec 04, 2010
Double Espresso Wild Oat Stout from Black Wolf Brewery
Beer rating: 3.92 out of 5 with 4 ratings