Don't Break The Oat
CAP Brewery

First things first, this son 'bitch is a gusher. We got a live one here, so be warned.

Pours darkest murky brown almost black into a glass from a bottle. Mocha five finger - six finger head is lively, fizzy, and quick to recede like coke cola into nothing. It's like brown champagne, exploding into existance from the second you open the bottle.

Aroma is mild milk chocolate, those oats coming through, a little smoky grain and some expresso in the background. The flavour is very much the same with those smoky oats, burnt chocolate, and some coffee bitterness bringing up the rear. That milk chocolate hangs around well into the aftertaste with the creamy side of it coming through into the flavour like chocolate porridge.

Mouthfeel is the complete opposite for what you'd expect for an oatmeal stout; this thing is - there's no other way to say it - fizzy. It's like drinking cocoa Prosecco; thin, animated with no hanging around in the mouth.

I like the flavours; quite chocolatey and wholesome, but the body lets this down big style. I get the impression this is what they were going for, but I am not a fan of thin stouts in any regard.