UPDATED: OCT 25, 2020 Pours black with a small tan head. Roasted malt aroma. Thin body. Taste is of bitter burnt malts. Not very enjoyable. Blah

UPDATED: APR 27, 2020 12 ounce bottle at the house in Stow Ohio. Slight malted scent Black in color with little beige head. Taste the malt with slight chocolate and oatmeal. Smooth and medium bodied. Nice basic stout to sip on. Cheers!

4/2020. Cornavid19 shut down. Sheltering in place. Looking for comfort in NY. The copy writers should be paid extra for this description. Enticing, but no where near descriptive. Try again. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

UPDATED: DEC 2, 2019 Pours black with a thin tan head. Aroma of dark toasted malt. Taste has dry and bitter malt. Palate has hop bite on the nose, bitter mocha. Interesting.

UPDATED: MAR 14, 2019 I'm with the 'this is a good but forgettable stout' crowd. Not sure to call it a sweet or dry, but I'd say more on the dry side. The chocolate malt and oat flavors are there, with a semi-creamy texture from the oatmeal. Roast coffee and burnt molasses/sugar give some bitterness. I certainly would not turn this down, but not seeking to buy again. Has potential though. Could see it being better fresh on tap.

UPDATED: MAR 5, 2019 02-May-15 (12-oz bottle: Sample bottle from the distributor)
This is an Oatmeal Stout that I last sampled in 1998 and I thought it was pretty bitter back then. It pours a dark-brown body with caramel edges. The tan head rises to half an inch before settling to a thin ring and patchy dusting. The nose is noticeably roasty and significantly burnt for an Oatmeal Stout. And on the palate, burnt, very dark-roasted malts dominate, but there's still quite a lot of oatmeal flavor, some dark chocolate, and grassy hops. It's not very sweet at all, and yeah, roasty and hoppy bitterness is readily apparent, so maybe I wasn't so far off back then. The beer is medium-plus in weight, medium in carbonation, and quite dry on the palate. Overall, this is more roasty that I like for this style, but it's still enjoyable for a dark, roasty stout.

12 ounce bottle. Pours dark brown with an average tan head. Aroma of malt, coffee, and chocolate. Taste is roasted malt, dark chocolate, and coffee. Mild bitterness. Thin body. Ok.

Pours black, with full, tan head. Aroma is cocoa, coffee and roast. Taste is thin chocolate, moving to heavy roast and coffee. Finish is coffee. An OK stout.

Bottle from Village Beer Merchant. Brown coloured. Roasted malts, coffee, coffee grinds, quite dry. No oats whatsoever. Pretty poor all around.

23 oz. bottle pours a translucent dark brown with creamy beige head that leaves some lacing. Aroma is all roasted barley, with mild coffee and mild chocolate. I couldn't detect the oatmeal. Taste is initially sweet and malty but the finish is bitter, Body is at most medium with soft carbonation and a creamy mouthfeel. OK, but not one I'll return to enthusiastically.