tOATal Darkness
Artisanal Brew Works
- From:
- Artisanal Brew Works
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Oatmeal Stout
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +4 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.04 | pDev: 6.44%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 13, 2023
- Added:
- Nov 26, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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We aged our tOATal Darkness Stout in Yankee Distilling Whiskey barrels for over 5 months lends to a great balance of whiskey, oak, and roasted malts.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by JohnWesolowski from Connecticut
4.36/5 rDev +7.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.36/5 rDev +7.9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Clean, basic oatmeal stout. Slight coffee/chocolate aftertaste. No off-flavors. Perfect carbonation for a stout.
Jan 15, 2018
Reviewed by Lone_Freighter from Vermont
4.05/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
4.05/5 rDev +0.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Can to English pint glass, the appearance was a dark brown close to black color with a finger's worth of white foamy head that quickly dissipated. No lace.
The aroma blended sweet milk chocolate/cocoa powdery substance to a finely roasty to sweet coffee bean. Subtle touch of sweet oats round out the edges.
The flavor was a superbly blended sweet to roasty quality covering the milk chocolate/cocoa powder substance to a refined coffee bean sweetness. Just like in the aroma, the oats seem to just speckle a light touch near the end. Aftertaste was milk chocolate, sweet oats and some coffee bean.
The mouthfeel was between light and medium bodied with a fine in between sort of quality of sessionable to sipping. I did notice carbonation seemed a bit higher than normal than in most oatmeal stouts but I wasn't too bothered by that as those oats did a good job smoothing the rest of it out in a nice silky fashion.
Overall, absolutely wonderful qualities in the aroma and flavor. I would think this could be an exceptional oatmeal stout if they brought down the carbonation level just a hair. My first Artisanal Brew Works and I'm looking forward to trying more stuff of theirs.
Nov 26, 2017The aroma blended sweet milk chocolate/cocoa powdery substance to a finely roasty to sweet coffee bean. Subtle touch of sweet oats round out the edges.
The flavor was a superbly blended sweet to roasty quality covering the milk chocolate/cocoa powder substance to a refined coffee bean sweetness. Just like in the aroma, the oats seem to just speckle a light touch near the end. Aftertaste was milk chocolate, sweet oats and some coffee bean.
The mouthfeel was between light and medium bodied with a fine in between sort of quality of sessionable to sipping. I did notice carbonation seemed a bit higher than normal than in most oatmeal stouts but I wasn't too bothered by that as those oats did a good job smoothing the rest of it out in a nice silky fashion.
Overall, absolutely wonderful qualities in the aroma and flavor. I would think this could be an exceptional oatmeal stout if they brought down the carbonation level just a hair. My first Artisanal Brew Works and I'm looking forward to trying more stuff of theirs.
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