Geary's Cooledge Oatmeal Stout
D.L. Geary Brewing Company

Reviewed from notes. She pours a nice brown colored body with a decent sized foamy off-white head that gave some nice clingy lacing. The aroma has a nice nutty caramel maltiness with a decent balance of subdued hops. The taste is mainly sweet with some balance as it warms. On the palate, she sits about a light to medium, comes across fairly sessionable, dry and bitter aftertaste and finish. Overall, pretty nice oatmeal stout that I could come back to.

 

Small but resilient head. Lots of blanket lace on the glass. The liquid is dark, dark brown where no light shall pass.

Deep burnt bitterness from an ample dose of black patent malt. I may even detect some hop, but it's hard to tell. No chalkiness.

Quite dry (almost lip puckering) initial taste. Watery like most dry stouts, but a little thin for an oatmeal version. High carbonation. Short aftertaste but there's an essence of stone fruit that I like.

12oz bottle poured into a pint glass.

A: Very dark brown, just a shade away from black. Two fingers of tan head settle to a quarter of an inch, but hold fast there. Thin, wispy rind of lacing.

S: Caramel, blackstrap molasses, semi sweet dark chocolate, oat starch, roasted malts. Buttery. Quince-like fruitiness far in the background.

T: Cola and a touch of molasses at the outset. Deep roastiness takes over from there. Woody, char and soot. Burnt coffee. Caramel. Oaty starch. Buttery/butterscotch from the ringwood yeast. Fruitiness is a bit more forward than the nose let on. Lingering finish of cola, molasses, and a kiss of smoke.

M: On the lighter side of medium bodied. Full and creamy, though it feels a little too foamy. Relatively high carbonation. A little more weight and a little less carbonation would go a long way.

O: It isn't bad, but it leaves you wanting for something more. A little disjointed in flavor as it's a little weak up front, but then the roasted malts really jolt the palate toward the middle before tapering off into a decent finish. Body/mouthfeel leaves something to be desired too. It needs a few tweaks, I think.

 

 

 

12 oz bottle was poured into a pint glass.

Appearance: This veer poured a one finger mocha head that reduced to a thin layer. It is pitch black with no clarity or vision of bubbles coming up the side of the glass. Some spotty lacing on the glass as the beer was drank.

Smell: Roasted coffer, milk chocolate, and sweet and bready oats.

Taste: bittersweet milk chocolate up front with the roasted and oat flavors in the rear. A little bitterness too.

Mouthfeel: Smooth, a little chewy, full bodied, and medium carbonation.

Overall: A pretty nice oatmeal stout to add to the lineup.

 

 

 

Pours dark brown and sits opaque black. Bubbly dark beige head is quick to fizzle out into a half moon collar.

Smells like char and buttered pretzels. I got a whiff of floral hops from the first bottle but none of the bottles since.

Butter and char. Has the trademark silky oatmaeal mouthfeel but it also has the trademark Geary's slick butterball tongue coat which doesn't work here. Odd tart raspberry flavor in back.

A disappointment from Geary's.

Light fizzy darker colored head touch of lacing, pitch black beer.

Nose plenty of creamy oats, bit of dark chocolate, some darker malts with a hint of carafa, sweet malts, chewy like.

Taste starts with toasty bready malts, plenty of oats but light feeling, slightly chewy and creamy but light feeling, some dark chocolate, light molasses and hint caramel, bready yeast flavors. Then herbal hops, light bitterness with the herbal earthy hops and some briny salty bitterness from the dark malts, and a hint of roast. Finish is slightly dry with lots of lingering bitter dark charred malts, light oats and chocolate, and a bit of bready yeast.

Mouth is med to lighter bodied but feels thin, good carb.

Overall not bad for gearys, but fairly thin and light feeling, decent malts that get over bitter and briny, but ok.

 

A Little less than 1 finger light brown head that has some moderate retention. Body is black with no light seen through and good signs of carbonation

S Big time sweet malts round out the nose. Light milk chocolate with a roast following.

T Much like the nose. Roast comes through in the middle that cuts the sweetness. There's a fruit type taste that seems a little out of character.

M Smooth feel with little carbonation and a tad light on the tongue

O Decent beer but nothing mind blowing. The muted fruity taste really hurt it and some sweetness would really help this one out.

 

 

Into a pint glass:

A: dark mahogany colored body with a lumpy creamy light tan three finger head. The head lasted about a good two minutes. There was quite a bit of foamy lacing as the beer went down.

S: malty with some notes of chocolate and coffee

T: same as the smell, but the chocolate seems more subdued

M: medium with a moderate carbonation felt on the tongue, slightly sessionable, wet aftertaste, no finish

O: this is a good oatmeal stout. It left me wanting more of these, but not right away

Pours a dark brown/black color, decent sized light tan head, sticks around for a good while, not much lacing though.

Smell has a simple but effective aroma of deeply roasted malt, even a coffee-like presence.

Taste has a surprisingly thin body with active bubbly carbonation, seems more porter like, lacking the typical smooth creaminess that accompanies most Oatmeal Stouts, roasted malt up front with a burnt coffee bitterness in the aftertaste, a bit sharper than expected.