Chocolate Hazelnut Oatmeal Stout
White Elm Brewing Company
- From:
- White Elm Brewing Company
- Nebraska, United States
- Style:
- Oatmeal Stout
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.97 | pDev: 7.05%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Sep 07, 2021
- Added:
- Mar 28, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Mindcrime1000 from South Dakota
3.73/5 rDev -6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev -6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
Poured from a pint can into a Nonic.
Pours extremely dark brown and opaque with decent viscosity. I still remember when that wasn't a word that was used to describe beer, but I digress. The head is limited but lingers well. Dark tan and creamy. It gives way to nice lacing.
Aromas of cocoa,, carob, hazelnut, vanilla, and a bit of coffee.
This is what it purports to be for sure, i.e., a pastry stout. Cake batter sweet chocolate for the most part, along with vanilla, lactose, hazelnut, all on the opening act. In midstream, the counterpoint arrives in the form of am herbal/cola flavor and a mildly bitter coffee flavor--until the brew warms some more, at which point a fairly strong chocolate syrup flavor arrives--like what you put in milk to make chocolate milk. Then, at the close, there is just a touch of acidity and booze to keep nudging this away from diabetes in a can territory.
Obviously full bodied but not a chewy beer and not a sticky one either. Smooth and slick, but cut with a decent carbonation level and drying ABV.
White Elm remains a go-to, but I'll admit this one is only "pretty good." It's a decent pastry stout that would probably earn a higher rating from me if it didn't straddle the line between "sweet" and "cloying" so dangerously.
Jun 13, 2021Pours extremely dark brown and opaque with decent viscosity. I still remember when that wasn't a word that was used to describe beer, but I digress. The head is limited but lingers well. Dark tan and creamy. It gives way to nice lacing.
Aromas of cocoa,, carob, hazelnut, vanilla, and a bit of coffee.
This is what it purports to be for sure, i.e., a pastry stout. Cake batter sweet chocolate for the most part, along with vanilla, lactose, hazelnut, all on the opening act. In midstream, the counterpoint arrives in the form of am herbal/cola flavor and a mildly bitter coffee flavor--until the brew warms some more, at which point a fairly strong chocolate syrup flavor arrives--like what you put in milk to make chocolate milk. Then, at the close, there is just a touch of acidity and booze to keep nudging this away from diabetes in a can territory.
Obviously full bodied but not a chewy beer and not a sticky one either. Smooth and slick, but cut with a decent carbonation level and drying ABV.
White Elm remains a go-to, but I'll admit this one is only "pretty good." It's a decent pastry stout that would probably earn a higher rating from me if it didn't straddle the line between "sweet" and "cloying" so dangerously.
Reviewed by bbtkd from South Dakota
4.42/5 rDev +11.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.42/5 rDev +11.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
White Elm Chocolate Hazelnut Oatmeal Stout (Imperial Pastry Stout), 8% ABV. Pours thick, owing to chocolate syrup, with a one-finger brown head. Nose is strong chocolate and some hazelnut. Taste follows, with the chocolate overpowering the hazelnut, quite sweet but not cloying, slightly bitter. Excellent smooth and thick mouthfeel, overall outstanding. Nose is better than the flavor.
Apr 19, 2021Reviewed by hoptheology from South Dakota
3.73/5 rDev -6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev -6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 3.75
16 oz can from 4 pack, into Tallgrass snifter.
Super loud click of the can, some muddy brown forming around the lip. Has a dark brown pour that turns into night time and then forms a tight creamy beige finger of head.
Aroma is massive granulated white sugar, biscotti, nutty hazelnut/peanut butter, and slight coffee. A very cloyingly sweet aroma.
Flavor is a sugar bomb. Tons of white sugar taking over this beer, then lactose in copious amounts, finally following with some pleasant chocolate and hazelnut flavors behind it with some nice coffee. If they could cut down the sweetness by like, half, I think it would be a stellar beer. The flavor isn't bad with the presence of chocolate and hazelnut, but it feels like I'm drinking over-sugared cereal milk.
Feel is slick, sticky, pastry-like, smooth, with lots of alcohol. Buzzing carbonation. Sticky finish.
Overall undoubtedly a cloying mess. Can't avoid it. I love chocolate and hazelnut and those flavors are there, but the sugar thing is out of control. I'm not sure I can finish it. I miss the White Elm of a few years ago - putting out solid bangers like Creme Brulee and Cinnamon Roll the same time every year. Now they just do these sugar bombs and it's really difficult to feel confident in what I pick up. Damn I wish I could score this higher.
I think the wife paid $11.99 for a 4 pack which wasn't too bad. I'm not ungrateful - I just wish White Elm would have produced this beer with half the sugar.
For people who believe chocolate is a food group and are used to enormously oversweet beers.
Mar 29, 2021Super loud click of the can, some muddy brown forming around the lip. Has a dark brown pour that turns into night time and then forms a tight creamy beige finger of head.
Aroma is massive granulated white sugar, biscotti, nutty hazelnut/peanut butter, and slight coffee. A very cloyingly sweet aroma.
Flavor is a sugar bomb. Tons of white sugar taking over this beer, then lactose in copious amounts, finally following with some pleasant chocolate and hazelnut flavors behind it with some nice coffee. If they could cut down the sweetness by like, half, I think it would be a stellar beer. The flavor isn't bad with the presence of chocolate and hazelnut, but it feels like I'm drinking over-sugared cereal milk.
Feel is slick, sticky, pastry-like, smooth, with lots of alcohol. Buzzing carbonation. Sticky finish.
Overall undoubtedly a cloying mess. Can't avoid it. I love chocolate and hazelnut and those flavors are there, but the sugar thing is out of control. I'm not sure I can finish it. I miss the White Elm of a few years ago - putting out solid bangers like Creme Brulee and Cinnamon Roll the same time every year. Now they just do these sugar bombs and it's really difficult to feel confident in what I pick up. Damn I wish I could score this higher.
I think the wife paid $11.99 for a 4 pack which wasn't too bad. I'm not ungrateful - I just wish White Elm would have produced this beer with half the sugar.
For people who believe chocolate is a food group and are used to enormously oversweet beers.
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