In my cellar: Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout
By jason on Aug 13, 2007 in Porters and Stouts, Reviews
Name: Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout
Brewer: Samuel Smith Old Brewery
Style: Oatmeal Stout
Cellared On: July 7th, 2008
Original Tasting: July 8th, 2008
My first Oatmeal Stout in a long time, and damn, is this a good one. It pours very dark with a beautiful creamy head. I can taste the oatmeal, along with a bit of a chocolate as it goes down. It’s very smooth and sweet, I swear I’m getting hints of brown sugar. No bitterness at all. I feel like I could drink this for breakfast.
Online tasters report much the same feeling as my experience, but also detected roasted malts, coffee, and toffee
Six-Month Tasting: January 18th, 2008
The smells and carbonation are still there, but that’s about it. The wonderful creaminess and oatmeal/chocolate flavors have just faded away. There’s still a bit of nice toasted malt in the taste, but it gets totally overwhelmed by an oxidized cardboard/paper like flavor. Very disappointing, but probably not too surprising.
Cellar Outlook: Beer Advocate’s cellar forum users have not had much luck with Oatmeal Stout’s in the cellar. The future may be grim for my poor oatmeal stouts.
Six-Month Outlook Notes: Grim. Bleak. I can’t see anything good coming of further aging, but I’ll keep trying.
Next Tasting: July 2008
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