Sierra Nevada Beer Camp Oatmeal Stout
This big oatmeal stout is midnight black in color--with a big roasty, mocha-like aroma. It has a silky body from the use of rolled oats, and a round and lasting finish. Perfect as an after dinner treat.
3.8
372 reviews
Chico, United States
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355ml bottle from Ales by Mail @ RIP Camp
Bottled June 21, 2012 -
Pours pitch black with a large brown head. Aroma of roastiness, cream cracker, sweet oat, hints of ash and dark chocolate. Taste is roasty, sweetish and syrupy with notes of dark chocolate, cream cracker and biscuit. Finish is dry, roasty, biscuity and chocolatey with hints of syrup and oat. A bit untypical, but quite tasty imperial stout.
355 ml bottle @ RIP Camp.
Pours black color with a small beige head. Aroma of roasted malts, chocolate, wood, oat and hops. Flavor of chocolate, cocoa, caramel malts, faint vanilla notes, hops and wood. Sweet milky chocolaty palate with a somewhat bitter malty finish. Good.
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Bottle, Corks, Bristol. Good looking label. Deep dark brown pour with a thin tan head. Choc, roast and dark fruit in the nose. Sweetish flavour with more choc, roasted malt and a little booze. Smooth, rich sipper. Very enjoyable stuff.
Pours a dark brown with a small brown ring. Aroma is deep roasted malts and oatmeal flakes. Taste is roasted malts and chewy oatmeal. Small dark chocolate bitterness in the end. Thanks to spinrsx for this.
28th December 2012
Opaque dark black - brown beer, little pale tan head. Smooth palate, a little silky. Mild fine carbonation. Creamy dark malt, a little coffee and roast. Mellow prune like fruits underneath. Creamy finish with some mildly bitter roast aftertaste.
12 ounce bottle from the 2012 Beer Camp 12-pack purchased a year ago at the Escondido BevMo (that’s a lot of 12’s). Pours black with a finger and a half of brown foam. Aroma of tarry dark roasted malts, bittersweet chocolate, roasted nuts, and perhaps some oats. Flavor of smooth dark cocoa, roasted grainy malts, oat cereal, nutty coffee, and a bit of dark fruit. Fairly rich but with only a hint of sweetness. Nice and soft on the palate with a complete hidden 9% ABV. A nice easy drinking impy-oaty stout that has aged well. (353, 809)
Poured into 12oz snifter. Jet black with thick tan creamy head. Nose of chocolate and malt. Taste is of chocolate, rasin and malt with a bit of a hop bite at the end..
12 FL. OZ. bottle from Shebrooke LC via Ryan (thanks!), served quite cool in a tulip glass.
App.: Deep brown-black with a decent deep mocha head.
Aroma: Lots of rich molasses, light grape bubblegum, dark chocolate and black coffee, hints of licorice, deep-roasted malts, lovely.
Palate: Medium+ body, reasonably lively effervescence.
Flav.: Much like the nose with plenty of molasses and grape bubblegum, chocolate abounds with less black coffee, rich and quite nice; sweet with good bitterness and a long, alcoholic, deep-roasted malt finish.
Where was “beer camp” when I was younger? Stupid art camp...
On tap at Beermuda. Roasted malt, molasses, light chocolate, coffee, and smoke. Sweet nose. Dark black opaque with foamy tan lacing head. Medium-heavy body with medium carbonation. Starts sweet and malty with lots of molasses, chocolate, and coffee. Light bitter finish with sweet lingering after.
I want ABL to go on band camp. Preferably somewhere dry, chucking it down outside it is. How cool would that be Thomas?
Bottle at home, from Cotteridge Wines, 20/07/13.
Mid black with a tan head that dissipates to a thin pond like covering atop the glass.
Nose is roast malt, porridge with diary milk, light booze, dark fruits.
Taste comprises chocolate maltesers, porridge with shavings of chocolate, light booze, dark toffee fudge.
Medium bodied with bite, fine carbonation with a little prickle, light booze coated finish.
Decent offering, the booze is pretty well managed for a 9%er, not a huge amount of depth but an easy drinker!
Bottle Beer Camp variety pack from BevMo: Appeared as a dark and dense brown color topped with a firm layer of patchy foam. Aroma is pleasant with a smell of roasted dark malt along with a light whiff of chocolate syrup. The flavor is well balanced between a delicate sweetness stemming from the usage of oatmeal and other assorted dark roasted malts that delivers a robust flavor along side a squeeze of chocolate syrup. For sure the stand out during this years’ Beer Camp selection.
Ooh, pours very dark to blackish with a shy head. Aromas of malted brownies, coffee, and sweet meat. Rich and full throttle on the nectar with creamy texture. Generous in character, sweet cocoa with exceptional bitterness that shows through to the finish through all this gobble-d-goop. Awesome beer.
This is from the 2012 Band camp series. Pours pitch black. Very viscous, poured a half finger of a light khaki head. The aroma started with a bit of molasses smell, bittersweet chocolate, bitter coffee, maybe a hint of a non descript dark fruit. The taste starts with bitter chocolate and bitter coffee, rolls through the mouth with hints of sweet chocolate and slight molasses and possible date or fig. The finish is pretty bitter, coffee mostly. Very tasty. The mouthfeel is very velvety. The beer coats your mouth. There may be a hint of alcohol but not much. This is excellent. It was brewed in July and am drinking it in January of 2013. Very tasty, could age a bit longer to mellow some of the bitterness.
12oz bottle. Pours pitch black with a huge fluffy tan head. Aroma of rich roasted malts, and cocoa. Taste is silky and smooth. Nice sweet roasted malt, dark chocolate, and some dark fruit notes.
Bottles from the beer camp 12 pack. Dark black color, tan head - typical look of an imperial. Sweet smelling, full of oats, chocolate, hops, and coffee. Taste sweet and somewhat chewy. If it was any thicker you could just eat it. Pretty good beer, but really heavy.
pretty restrained and one-dimensional aroma. colour is rich, deep brown with not much head. carbonation is low actually. taste is strong- rich with lots of chocolate, a touch of something earthy too... i liked this more when it was colder. as it opened it showed a lot of alcohol which i don’t think is in line with the softness. still for $6 its a cracker
Very dark but clear brown, nearly opaque, with a finely textured light brown head. Wood, light char and an almost rum-like aroma. Smooth bodied and full but not thick. Lots of dark and bittersweet chocolate, toasted wood and molasses in the flavor. Good alcohol kick to keep things moving. A cola taste near the end and finishes with lasting chocolate and cocoa flavors and nice alcohol warmth. A fine imperial oatmeal stout and another great Beer Camp beer.
12oz served into a snifter glass.
A - Pours completely opaque with one finger of khaki head.
S - Roasted malts, Kahlua sweetness, vanilla, dark chocolate, tangy prunes, vanilla alcohol vapors.
T - Roasted chocolate malts, cocoa bitterness, toasted oats, creamy sweetness, molasses, hints of cordial cherries, hints of toasted prunes, the roast last long after the finish. The bitterness rounds out the sweetness on the end.
M - Super smooth feel, low carbonation, medium bodied.
Very focused flavors leaning on smooth creamy feel, roasted malt, and a balance between sweet and bitterness. Nice fruity component as well. I would by this buy the sixpack.
Serving type: bottle
09-10-2012
12oz bottle poured into a shaker. Pours black with a half finger of dark tan head. Aroma of chocolate and coffee with some tobacco and leather. Taste is coffee and dark chocolate. A little dark fermented fruit in there too. Full bodied with a thick texture. Lively carbonation and a very long finish. Overall, awesome. One of the best sierras ive had.
Malt chocolate hop aroma. Dark brown cour good head and lacing. Chocolate hop cherry malt flavour. Smooth palate.
In short: A exemplary roasted sessionnable big oatmeal stout. Perfection in simplicity.
How: Tap at Prohibition Pig, Waterbury VT. (sold as Sierra Nevada Blackalicious, which after a few googles I found out is Sierra Nevada Snowed In Stout which ratebeer tells me is Sierra Nevada Beer Camp Oatmeal Stout)
The look: Black body topped by a small tan head.
In long: Nose is typical roasted oatmeal stout. Taste is as archetypical as it is enjoyable. Full body, fun active carbonation, nice velvety mouthfeel, very roasted without feeling burnt or ashy, a taste of fresh toasted bakery bread, bittersweet black chocolate, herbal hops, light green herbs sensation, a medium bitterness that washes away all the sweetness. Nothing original here, this is a roasted oatmeal stout, but this is Sierra Nevada and unsurprisingly it is a professional clean beer of superior quality. I could drink this all night long, this is a tasty beer that offers an array of flavors that you just cannot get tired of. Scary how it was easy to drink, I had a few glasses of it. And when I order a beer at a pub I never mention how many beer ratings I have to my waitress, I’m down to earth, I know I just can’t just go through life bragging about the number of beers I have rated, I mean, raw sex-appeal can only get you so far.
Sierra Nevada 2012 Oatmeal Stout is a black ale with a chocolate brown overtone. The thin, shiny, brown head becomes a film. The dark, roasted aroma has a touch of toffee to it. It is soft, smooth and full bodied. It leaves the mouth a little chalky. The full, dark roasted flavor is like dark chocolate. The bitterness leans toward juniper and lemon peel. It has lots of taste that’s well balanced. This stuff is just great. I used some in my black bean chili.
Bottle from Slowbeer. Black, thick and heavy, roasted malt, chocolate, vanilla with good bitter finish. This one was hard work, but quite enjoyable.
Nice! Roasted, chocolatey nose. Dark pour with decent head. Solid palate. Roasted and chocolatey flavor, with some bitterness to balance it out. really nice.
Fall ’12 Draft: Small head smooth, oily big body. Flavor has chocolate and mild vanilla with warming finish. Really solid all around. 3.7.
Pretty good over all, boozy on the nose and aftertaste. Nice color nice head, wet mouth feel on the palate after you swallow. Would be nice on a colder day
Thick, choclatey and coffee flavours, plenty of body. Smooth texture. Delicious.
Black body with tan sheen. Alcohol, tobacco, firearms, burnt oat aromas. medium body, average carbonation. Tobacco, black licorice, dry black malt, dry chocolate flavors---ok.
Bottle from Tomlinsons, Inverness [13013]
Jet black, dark tan frothy head that dissipates to a thin head, some lacing
Aroma of deep dark malts, chocolate, touch of coffee, not a massive aroma
Taste of rich dark malts, deep dark soft chocolate, touch of coffee, alcohol is a bit noticeable but it’s dangerously easy to drink, some molten chocolate cake, very well balanced
Palate - Soft to medium carb, got a fork in the to get rid of a bit of the fizz, now a rich almost full body, very smooth malts. Finish as main flavour, nice waxy smoothness from the oats, dark chocolate cake
Overall - A really well made smooth chocolately impy stout. It’s not a complex impy but it’s so drinkable. They are spot on describing it as a ’pudding’ beer.