Unkindness Oatmeal Stout
Three Ranges Brewing Company

355ml can - I knew that a group of crows is called a 'murder', but I was unaware that a group of ravens is called an 'unkindness'. Until now, that is.

This beer pours a clear, dark amber-highlighted brown colour, with four fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly tan head, which leaves some decent layered cirrus cloud pattern lace around the glass as it rather slowly dissipates.

It smells of roasted and sort of meaty caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, mild cafe-au-lait, a bit of toasted nuttiness, and very subtle earthy, musty, and floral noble hops. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, some mild free-range ashiness, oily bar-top nuts, faint medium chocolate wafers, iced coffee, and more well understated earthy, leafy, and herbal green hoppiness.

The carbonation is fairly low-key in its timid-seeming frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and fairly smooth, with a thin airy creaminess evolving as things warm up a smidge around here. It finishes off-dry, the roasted cereal malt and myriad java shop essences prevailing.

Overall - this comes across as a competently rendered iteration of the old-school style, nice and full of malty goodness. Perfect for another sub, sub (sub)-zero day on the Great Canadian Prairies.