Nippletop

The Beer Stats:

• Beer Name: Nippletop

• Brewery: Lake Placid Brewing Company (New York)

• Style: Milk Stout

• ABV: 4.9%

• IBU: 

• Pour Color: Dark Dark Brown... Light fails to make it thru!

      Nippletop is a dark beer on pour. Even that head on the top had a dark brown color. The head was nice and creamy on the top. It stuck around for awhile. The scent off the top is roasted malts and alcohol. The taste has a nice complexity of roasted malt, coffee and chocolate. The feel in the mouth is much fuller then most beers. It shows the use of oatmeal and lactose sugars in the brewing. It leaves a nice creamy feel all around. Not a bad beer to come down from the mountain for!
    Nippletop is a good but not great milk stout. It's got your strong malts to warm the insides. It's also got a great feel in your mouth. That coffee roasted flavor is really good too. All of these things though just don't go far enough for me. It's almost watered down at the finish to me. Still a good stout that most beer drinkers will like!

Rating: ***1/2

Breakfast Stout

The Beer Stats:

• Beer Name: Breakfast Stout

• Brewery: Founder's Brewing Company (Michigan) 

• Style: Imperial Stout

• ABV: 8.3%

• IBU: 60

• Pour Color: Black through and through!

      The pour came out a deep black that even held up to light you couldn't see. The head wasn't anything spectacular, it was half a finger. Not much of a match for the mustache. The scent is a deep roasted scent. You also catch a slight coffee chocolate mix off the top. The coffee and the chocolate come through very bitter on taste. Strong smokey roasted flavors are complimented with a nice earth hop flavor. You also get a strong flavor of the alcohol in this one. Over all really delicious!
      They call this a breakfast stout. The coffee flavor works that way easy. I can't see myself drinking this in the mourning though. It's got a nice thick body, like you would want from a early drinking day, but way to strong. With the high ABV you're not gonna drink to many in a day. The taste of alcohol makes it hard to drink early too. I think as a night cap though, PERFECT!

Rating: ****1/2

McGovern's Oatmeal Stout

The Beer Stats:

• Beer Name: McGovern's Oatmeal Stout

• Brewery: Belfast Bay Brewing
  

• Style: Oatmeal Stout

• ABV: 5.1%

• IBU:20

• Pour Color: Black and no light travels through

      This one said the coffee lovers beer on the package! Challenge excepted me and the Face decided. Seeing the head rise up on this one a chocolate brown I knew we found a good one. The scent off the glass is coffee and a sweet almost fig scent. On first taste you get a sweet caramel flavor. As you drink more though you get that nice coffee bitter that you would expect. This beer also has a nice body. Full but not thick as bread. The yeast comes through cleanly and helps bring out more of that coffee. Overall lived up to most my expectations, as a said coffee lover!
      This was a great stout from Maine. Bitter and full body it's a strong contrast from Sea Dog brewing. To sea dogs defense though, fruit beers have to be something special to rate, and that's all I've had from them. If you get a McGovern's and not at least appreciate it then you must not appreciate beer. 

Rating: ****1/2

Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout

The Beer Stats:

• Beer Name: Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout

• Brewery: Anderson Valley Brewing Company (California)
  

• Style: Stout

• ABV: 5.7%

• IBU: 13

• Pour Color:  A black pour letting little light the glass.
  

      The Face and I have a fascination with cans for sure. The Stout poured out the can quite black. Little light travels through the beer. The head was huge and fluffy. The scent off the glass was a nice sweet caramel and toffee. The taste out the glass gives you a nice range. You get a nice toasted biscuit taste while also getting a nice roasted barley/coffee taste to the beer. The body of the beer really adds to the experience too. Thick and rich, bitter but sweet, it's got the full spectrum. This really is an amazing stout that brings you to all the best places a dark beer can. 
      Wow. An oatmeal stout that delivers. Both thick and smooth this one hit the spot. This one was another example of exemplary beer being served out the can. If you're a dark beer lover or a coffee lover this beer would be great for ya. If you're not I'm wondering whats wrong with you...

Rating: *****

Oatmeal Stout

The Beer Stats:

• Beer Name: Oatmeal Stout
  

• Brewery: Wolaver's (Vermont)

• Style: Stout

• ABV: 5.9%

• IBU:40

• Pour Color: Pour is black and lets little light through

      The beer pours black like a good stout should. The head was fluffy but didn't last long. As Face brought it up to me I could smell the roasted malts and a coffee scent. On the sip you realize how full bodied the oats make this one. A nice almost gritty feeling in the mouth. chocolate and coffee make up most the flavor on sip. Although the smoke of the roasted malts is hard to ignore. This one is a really good stout that most mustache's can appreciate.
      This one is more of a coffee beer then the Alta Gracia. A delicious dark beer that really isn't that hard to drink. Some darker beers have to thick a body. This one though is really nice and creamy not just thick. Really the best beer out of this sampler and a great beer that I would go back to again and again.

  

Rating: ****1/2