Cains Creamy Stout
Robert Cain & Company Limited

Tried this ale by a half-pint on cask, at the Penderel's Oak, Holborn, London.

A: dark brown in colour with mahogany glows, coming with a really creamy and well-lasting tan head even without the aid of the sparkler. Looking fabulous.
S: roast walnuts, oats, chocolate-milk, cocoa beans, and sticky treacle all spring to mind... with a mild edge of dark fruits (like date cake) behind.
T: delicious black malts, oats, nuttiness and liquor-ish dark fruits upfront are supported by a deep, underlying flow of herbal hop bitterness... traces of licorice and more walnutty bitterness seem to linger nicely in the end. Overall, malts get a nice balance from the relaxing roastiness and a healthy dose of tartness from roasted barley.
M&D: very light-bodied but not thin at all, while the semi-creamy and smooth texture comes ideal for this light-gravity stout. Quite delicious and quaffable it is, although I wouldn't be able to pinpoint which type of stout it really purports to be. The silkness and mildly oat-ish flavour help me enter this as an oatmeal stout, but, surely, the brewers have very different categorisations in mind than the ones on this website!