Teeter Totter Oatmeal Stout
Fine Balance Brewing Company
- From:
- Fine Balance Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Oatmeal Stout
- ABV:
- 5.1%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.44 | pDev: 1.45%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 18, 2024
- Added:
- Apr 22, 2024
- Wants:
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- Gots:
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After you Teeter you need to Totter, or is it the other way around? Teeter Totter Oatmeal Stout is a perfect bookend to our Imperial Stout. Expect a creamy chocolate and light coffee flavour profile.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Ratings by thehyperduck:
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.49/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.49/5 rDev +1.5%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
355 mL can from Milos'; dated Jan 5 2024 and served barely chilled. Fine Balance appears to have used the Teeter Totter name a couple of times in the past; one iteration was a 9% imperial stout, but this is clearly a different beer entirely.
Pours a murky chestnut brown colour; holding it to a light reveals its relative clarity, as well as its amber-red highlights. One finger of loose, sudsy, pale beige head fizzles off within a couple of minutes, leaving only a sickly-thin collar behind - not a visually impressive stout at all. Mild aroma of medium-roast coffee, roasted malts, whole grain bread and cocoa.
I don't hate it, but I'm not enamoured with it, either. I'm tasting dark fruits, cocoa and coffee, with hints of roasted nuts and caramelized sugars. Malty-sweet on the back end, with low bitterness and not a lot of roasted malt presence. Light in body, with assertive carbonation that prickles the palate continuously; it's smooth, but not as smooth as I'd like for an oatmeal stout. The sharp carb and thin feel are the real nails in this one's coffin.
Final Grade: 3.49, a B-. Teeter Totter is distinct from practically all of the other oatmeal stouts I've ever had, but not in a good way. In fact, it reminds me more of a brown ale - and had I been blindfolded, I'm certain that's what I'd believe myself to be drinking. That being said, the flavours themselves are alright, I guess... it's not that this is an awful beer, it just doesn't strike me as a good rendition of its style. Needs some significant tweaking: too bad, I think this is the first 'miss' I've had from Fine Balance.
Apr 22, 2024Pours a murky chestnut brown colour; holding it to a light reveals its relative clarity, as well as its amber-red highlights. One finger of loose, sudsy, pale beige head fizzles off within a couple of minutes, leaving only a sickly-thin collar behind - not a visually impressive stout at all. Mild aroma of medium-roast coffee, roasted malts, whole grain bread and cocoa.
I don't hate it, but I'm not enamoured with it, either. I'm tasting dark fruits, cocoa and coffee, with hints of roasted nuts and caramelized sugars. Malty-sweet on the back end, with low bitterness and not a lot of roasted malt presence. Light in body, with assertive carbonation that prickles the palate continuously; it's smooth, but not as smooth as I'd like for an oatmeal stout. The sharp carb and thin feel are the real nails in this one's coffin.
Final Grade: 3.49, a B-. Teeter Totter is distinct from practically all of the other oatmeal stouts I've ever had, but not in a good way. In fact, it reminds me more of a brown ale - and had I been blindfolded, I'm certain that's what I'd believe myself to be drinking. That being said, the flavours themselves are alright, I guess... it's not that this is an awful beer, it just doesn't strike me as a good rendition of its style. Needs some significant tweaking: too bad, I think this is the first 'miss' I've had from Fine Balance.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by ewpass from Canada (PE)
3.39/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.39/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Alas I am at the end of the batch of Ontario stouts received in trade from thehyperduck. This last one is an oatmeal stout from Fine Balance in Kingston. It is dark brown with reddish hints and a very thin head which doesn't last. Mild chocolate nose with maybe a hint of vanilla. Light chocolate malt body, very very thin for a stout, almost session-like. It doesn't have the silky smoothness I associate with an oatmeal stout. I double-checked the label to be sure and oats are listed but I can't find them in the flavour profile. Many better options on the store shelf. Thanks one last time to thehyperduck for the opportunity to try a wide-ranging group of stouts!
Nov 18, 2024
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