Mike Loves Beer

Name – Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout
Country – England
Type – Oatmeal Stout

Appearance – Poured an opaque black color with a big tan head.

Smell – Smells of roasted malts, oats and a very faint chocolate.

Taste – Roasted malts are prevalent with some chocolate notes and slight oatmeal taste in the middle. Very light in body compared to most stouts.

This has always been one of my all time favorite stouts but I just never got around to reviewing it until now. As I said it is lighter in body that a lot of stouts out there and that might add to my liking of it. Also the absence of too much of a coffee flavor makes me happy as well. One of my top 5 favorites of all time.

Overall Grade – A

Name - McGovern’s Oatmeal Stout
Country - United States
Type - Oatmeal Stout

Appearance - Poured a very black color with a nice light brown head.

Smell - Roasted malts and slight smell of chocolate.

Taste - Very slight tasted of roasted malts, coffee, chocolate.

I was recommended this one a couple weeks ago on Twitter so I gave it a shot.  The look was nice but it kind of fell flat on the taste.  It didn’t seem that full of a body that you would expect from a stout and the flavors seemed distant.  While I don’t mind the coffee taste being distant everything else was.  It’s also very hard to compare most oatmeal stouts when you have had Sam Smith’s in your life.  Maybe would recommend this to people just starting on stouts.

Overall Grade – C