Imperial Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Stout
Rivertown Brewery & Barrel House
- From:
- Rivertown Brewery & Barrel House
- Ohio, United States
- Style:
- Imperial Pastry Stout
- ABV:
- 10.89%
- Score:
- 85
- Avg:
- 3.7 | pDev: 13.78%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jun 10, 2015
- Added:
- Dec 28, 2013
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
85
Very Good
85
Very Good
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Reviewed by Lapalou from Florida
4.78/5 rDev +29.2%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 5
4.78/5 rDev +29.2%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 5
Always hit the brewery when this on tap. The ORC treatment on the Bolita base beer, provides a extra rich treat. I'm a fan of Bolita but this treatment makes an awesome beer. Tastes like a decadent oatmeal raisin cookie and the sweetness I the brown ale lingers. Awesome beer!
Jun 10, 2015
Reviewed by BEERchitect from Kentucky
3.73/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev +0.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
If the dinner table is crammed with baked goods, cakes, candies and cookies; why should the tap list be left out? With the use of those same spices, fruits and sweetnesses- ale can now be packed with much the same.
Rivertown's Imperial Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Stout pours with a dense and murky dark brown stain, as if raw cocoa powder is mixed within. As its patient mocha head builds, it reveals long retention before falling still near the session's end. With random specks of lace, the ale prefers brandy-like stillness and much as that of ale.
Enticing aromas of chocolate, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice stand tall against malty elements of brown sugar, coffee and toast. Its alignment is somewhere between coffee cake and spiced rum... but then comes the fruit- obvious raisins, but also with a pep of cherries, dried apples and nuts; a fruit cake medley arises.
Its rich and malt-forward flavor shows dominant sweetness that ranges from burnt toffee and molasses to chocolate, mocha latte, and walnuts. Once the dark, dried and pitted fruits fold in, the sweet taste is further exacerbated. A tepid balance from "Christmas" spice and peppery alcohol gives some semblance of offsetting the malt; but no mistake about it- this ale appeases the sweet tooth. Again, its late charge is alive with the same fruit cake, coffee cake and rum cake that was anticipated in its scent. And... oh yes- oatmeal raisin cookie.
Full bodied early and often, the larger-than-life ale is creamy and sweet to texture, just the same as in taste. Rich and bready, the carbonation seems to thicken the beer, even once it fades, the ale rests weightily on the tongue with batter-like consistency and pleasant slickness. Finishing spicy and warm, there's a mild prickling action that occurs, as this is the ale's only signal for closure. Its malty-sweet aftertaste satisfies the palate like fine dessert.
Oatmeal Raisin Cookie allows its "cookie" flavor to dominate its "stout" flavor. This gives its intent the control that's needed, but at the sacrifice of roasted and drier elements. -Perfect for dessert-lovers, but perhaps at the determent of beer purists.
Dec 28, 2013Rivertown's Imperial Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Stout pours with a dense and murky dark brown stain, as if raw cocoa powder is mixed within. As its patient mocha head builds, it reveals long retention before falling still near the session's end. With random specks of lace, the ale prefers brandy-like stillness and much as that of ale.
Enticing aromas of chocolate, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice stand tall against malty elements of brown sugar, coffee and toast. Its alignment is somewhere between coffee cake and spiced rum... but then comes the fruit- obvious raisins, but also with a pep of cherries, dried apples and nuts; a fruit cake medley arises.
Its rich and malt-forward flavor shows dominant sweetness that ranges from burnt toffee and molasses to chocolate, mocha latte, and walnuts. Once the dark, dried and pitted fruits fold in, the sweet taste is further exacerbated. A tepid balance from "Christmas" spice and peppery alcohol gives some semblance of offsetting the malt; but no mistake about it- this ale appeases the sweet tooth. Again, its late charge is alive with the same fruit cake, coffee cake and rum cake that was anticipated in its scent. And... oh yes- oatmeal raisin cookie.
Full bodied early and often, the larger-than-life ale is creamy and sweet to texture, just the same as in taste. Rich and bready, the carbonation seems to thicken the beer, even once it fades, the ale rests weightily on the tongue with batter-like consistency and pleasant slickness. Finishing spicy and warm, there's a mild prickling action that occurs, as this is the ale's only signal for closure. Its malty-sweet aftertaste satisfies the palate like fine dessert.
Oatmeal Raisin Cookie allows its "cookie" flavor to dominate its "stout" flavor. This gives its intent the control that's needed, but at the sacrifice of roasted and drier elements. -Perfect for dessert-lovers, but perhaps at the determent of beer purists.
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