On tap at One Mile House, delectable Imperial-styled oatmeal stout brings brown chocolate spicing and dark-roasted mocha malting to molasses-sugared oatmeal retreat. Sweet toffee midst aids chocolate-cocoa conflux as subsidiary black cherry, black licorice, vanilla, coconut and espresso notions add extra intrigue.
On tap at Poor Henry’s, 2015 nitro version of famous dark ale retains remarkable Guinness Stout-like nutty mocha creaminess. Mild black chocolate-informed coffee resonance gently flows into soft oats-flaked hop char, leaving peanut-shelled walnut remnant at mocha latte finish.
On tap at Ambulance, smoothly sweet and generously creamy dessert treat tastes like a Sugar Daddy candy bar. Sugary toffee, brown chocolate, syrupy molasses, burnt caramel and cookie dough illusions reach chewy nougat center as mild peat-smoked hop roast contrasts sugary oats-flaked mocha malting. Subsidiary light-roast coffee, vanilla, cocoa, espresso and bourbon illusions add resiliency.
On tap at Blue Ribbon Tavern, creamy vanilla bean version of fabulous dark ale spreads dark-roasted mocha malting across molasses-sugared flaked oats. Bittersweet vanilla piquancy deepened by black chocolate influence. Milked coffee, caramel latte, cappuccino, espresso, oatmeal cookie and chocolate chip illusions play superb backup for fine dessert treat.
“Brazen” is an advertising overstatement. Instead, this well-rounded Brit-influenced oatmeal stout maintains a likable dark-roasted mocha malting and oatmeal sugaring above its coarse toasted hop char. Black chocolate, day-old coffee, espresso and peat illusions do the job as backup.
Murkily off-the-beaten-track oats-flaked stout desiccated by sour coffee musk and ashen charcoal tarring. Shrill dark chocolate chalking inundates soy-soured cherry snip and ascending port-bourbon wining. Weird green olive pungency jilts dirty mocha finish.
On tap at Shepherd & Knucklehead, thin one-dimensional dark ale loses initial Hershey’s Kiss black chocolate delight and settles for arid hop-charred nuttiness. Despite adding Cafe Calabria coffee to barley-flaked oats roast, lactic cocoa-powdered acridity and sooty peat reminder outdo quick java swipe. Mucky mocha murk diverts black cherry snip. Way too watery, inefficient and uninvolving.
Silken milk chocolate entry juxtaposes mild soy-soured coffee burn. Malted milk ball likeness reinforced by cocoa-dried burnt caramel sweetness. Cola, hazelnut and pecan illusions deepen impact. A smidgen of anise and a dollop of bourbon smear the dark-roasted oatmeal backend.
On tap at Shepherd & Knucklehead, brazen full body blasts day-old coffee brashness into oats-flaked charred hop bittering. Black chocolate roast confirms abundant mocha theme and ashen nuttiness details the charcoal-crisped backend with raspy cola nut, hazelnut and walnut illusions.
Desultory oatmeal-flaked dark ale fails to properly integrate. Dessicated grain-roasted dark chocolate malting picks up blunt lactose souring as raw cocoa nibs chalking, dry Baker’s chocolate astringency and musty vanilla bean snip get foiled by acrid hop char.
Unsustainable coffee roast entry, wispy dark-roasted chocolate nuttiness and fudgy cocoa snip washed-out by phenol carbolic fizz. Mildly creamed mocha froth gets soapy above wary oats-sugared spine. Inconsequential obsidian-hued brown-watered oatmeal stout.
Coarse oats-flaked charred hop bittering, oily coffee souring and ashen nuttiness scour chalky dark chocolate theme. Ancillary brown-sugared espresso, molasses, cocoa nibs and raisin illusions fade quickly.
