Into The Black
Off The Rail Brewing Company
- From:
- Off The Rail Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Oatmeal Stout
- ABV:
- 4.8%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.99 | pDev: 5.01%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Mar 17, 2018
- Added:
- Sep 13, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
NO SCORE
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Smooth, rich, creamy and lots of roasty notes is how we describe our Oatmeal Stout. A mild hop bitterness with a touch of sweetness from the oats addition of the recipe. Like our Porter and Golden Cream Ale, poured from a creamer tap.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.64/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.64/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle - no mention of any oats or oatmeal on the list of ingredients, but whatevs.
This beer pours a fairly solid black, with subtle amber basal edges, and a teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat bubbly brown head, which leaves some random chunky lace around the glass as it slowly but surely dissipates.
It smells of roasted caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, mild cafe-au-lait, a faint earthy free-agent ashiness, and some well-understated herbal, musty, and floral green hops. The taste is bready and grainy caramel malt, ethereal dark chocolate, some wet char, a strange dusty earthiness, soft milky coffee notes, and more plain leafy, herbal, and floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite meek in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and not particularly smooth, as that burnt character kind of takes the wind out of the sails here. It finishes trending dry, the roastiness still predominating over any lingering malt or hop essences.
Overall - yeah, this is a straight-up dry stout, and a pleasant enough one at that. Maybe they changed the recipe (oatmeal shortage?), and haven't updated their website. Wait, they have - partly. Ah, whatever, the rest of this bomber will make a suitable replacement for the stereotypical can of Guinness in my Irish stew that I should really get cracking on!
Mar 17, 2018This beer pours a fairly solid black, with subtle amber basal edges, and a teeming tower of puffy, finely foamy, and somewhat bubbly brown head, which leaves some random chunky lace around the glass as it slowly but surely dissipates.
It smells of roasted caramel malt, bittersweet cocoa powder, mild cafe-au-lait, a faint earthy free-agent ashiness, and some well-understated herbal, musty, and floral green hops. The taste is bready and grainy caramel malt, ethereal dark chocolate, some wet char, a strange dusty earthiness, soft milky coffee notes, and more plain leafy, herbal, and floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is quite meek in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and not particularly smooth, as that burnt character kind of takes the wind out of the sails here. It finishes trending dry, the roastiness still predominating over any lingering malt or hop essences.
Overall - yeah, this is a straight-up dry stout, and a pleasant enough one at that. Maybe they changed the recipe (oatmeal shortage?), and haven't updated their website. Wait, they have - partly. Ah, whatever, the rest of this bomber will make a suitable replacement for the stereotypical can of Guinness in my Irish stew that I should really get cracking on!
Reviewed by Everydayoff from Thailand
4/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
650ml bottle poured into an imperial pint glass.
It pours black motor oil in color with very thick dark silky tan head that is built up to stay with great retention before slowly subsiding to an everlasting effervescence that doesn’t die down until the last sip and leaving some sticky patch of lace here and there.
In a nose, it has an inviting Stout aroma of chocolate, coffee, cocoa powder, roasted, bold dark bread, caramel, vanilla, sugar, hint of cinnamon, some tobacco, especially rich smoothness and sweetness of flaked oats.
The taste is straightforward for what Oatmeal Stout is all about with its malty goodness of chocolate, coffee with some sourness, cocoa powder, roasted, dark bread, some caramel, sugar, and some tobacco, as well as mild bitter kick from hop. Oats play an important role, in addition, by lending its soft smoothness and some sweetness through the taste buds.
The body is light and thin with smooth mouthfeel and good crispness from its lively carbonation. The overall feeling is just right for Stout with a typical dry finish.
The oats here help massively in providing its nice smoothness and good sweetness through all the sensations, pretty good Oatmeal Stout and very sessionable of course. It is a beer to quaff.
May 31, 2017It pours black motor oil in color with very thick dark silky tan head that is built up to stay with great retention before slowly subsiding to an everlasting effervescence that doesn’t die down until the last sip and leaving some sticky patch of lace here and there.
In a nose, it has an inviting Stout aroma of chocolate, coffee, cocoa powder, roasted, bold dark bread, caramel, vanilla, sugar, hint of cinnamon, some tobacco, especially rich smoothness and sweetness of flaked oats.
The taste is straightforward for what Oatmeal Stout is all about with its malty goodness of chocolate, coffee with some sourness, cocoa powder, roasted, dark bread, some caramel, sugar, and some tobacco, as well as mild bitter kick from hop. Oats play an important role, in addition, by lending its soft smoothness and some sweetness through the taste buds.
The body is light and thin with smooth mouthfeel and good crispness from its lively carbonation. The overall feeling is just right for Stout with a typical dry finish.
The oats here help massively in providing its nice smoothness and good sweetness through all the sensations, pretty good Oatmeal Stout and very sessionable of course. It is a beer to quaff.
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
3.85/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Off the Rail Brewing 'Into the Black' oat stout @ 4.8% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $6.25
A-pour is a dark cola brown from the bottle to a almost black in the glass with a medium size tan head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-hints of sweet oats
T-sweet start with a dry finish
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-ok beer & oat stout
prost LampertLand
May 09, 2016A-pour is a dark cola brown from the bottle to a almost black in the glass with a medium size tan head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-hints of sweet oats
T-sweet start with a dry finish
MF-ok carbonation , medium body
Ov-ok beer & oat stout
prost LampertLand
Reviewed by StJamesGate from New York
4.03/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
4.03/5 rDev +1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
Creamy, lumpy tan head with trailers over jet black. 4
Chocolate, ash, and blackberry nose. 4
Char, coffee, and dark toast, a ton of chocolate and a bit of herbal greenery to end. 4
Cola end and tingly linger.
Lt-med, crisp, dry. 3.75
A touch dry and charred - I’d like more cookie in my oatmeal stouts. But fills out as it opens. A solid stout, more English than American, and great at the ABV. 4.25
Feb 04, 2016Chocolate, ash, and blackberry nose. 4
Char, coffee, and dark toast, a ton of chocolate and a bit of herbal greenery to end. 4
Cola end and tingly linger.
Lt-med, crisp, dry. 3.75
A touch dry and charred - I’d like more cookie in my oatmeal stouts. But fills out as it opens. A solid stout, more English than American, and great at the ABV. 4.25
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