1 YEAR<\/strong><\/p>\nRyan: I picked this up last April and set four bottles aside to cellar.\u00a0 This one has been sitting comfortably for a year, so why not break it out and see how it’s developing.<\/p>\n
This beer pours jet black with a teeny bit of white head that leaves a thin lacing behind after the first sip.\u00a0 Lots of oats in the nose.<\/p>\n
It smells like fresh bread.\u00a0 No, French bread.\u00a0 Wait…fresh, French bread.\u00a0 That’s it!<\/p>\n
This beer has thinned out a bit since I first sampled it last year.\u00a0 It still retains a bit of booze and heat in the taste, though.\u00a0 The flavors have developed nicely.\u00a0 There is a bit of chocolate and black licorice on the palate.\u00a0 There’s also a\u00a0 little oak or nuttiness in the finish once this warms up.<\/p>\n
This beer was very good fresh and is holding well in the cellar.\u00a0 I want to give it just a little bit longer to see if this beer peaks at one year or if it still has some room to develop.<\/p>\n
Andrew: <\/strong>Oh Imperial Oatmeal Stouts, how I love thee…sorry, I’ll clean up the drool later. This beer poured dark, really dark, but not as thick as I thought it would, and very little head. Nice, clean smell of oatmeal, chocolate and a coffee. The flavors were well balanced and I noted that this beer “tasted like an oatmeal stout should taste like.”<\/p>\nThe beer was extremely smooth and I really liked the warm, oaky finish that left a bit of a burning sensation on the way down. I didn’t think there were any overwhelmingly special qualities to this beer – just all around solid.<\/p>\n
\n18 MONTHS<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nRyan:<\/strong> It has now been a year-and-half, give or take a month, since I first purchased and sampled the Fat Dog from Stoudts.\u00a0 The reason I initially decided to cellar it is because the internet told me to, or at least a thread on beer advocate told me I could<\/em>.\u00a0 I recall the thread saying this was one of the few oatmeal stouts that could hold up to cellaring.\u00a0 So, I thought I would put it to the test.\u00a0 And it passed, quite well actually.<\/p>\nIf you skimmed the review above you’ll note that chocolate, coffee, fresh bread and booze dominated the nose.\u00a0 After six months plus in the cellar the alcohol was still present but it was not as pronounced.\u00a0 I also did not detect as much of the a-typical aromas of chocolate and coffee.\u00a0 Instead, I was greeted with warm brown sugar and raisins.<\/p>\n
The body remained fairly thin, but this beer has grown much more complex.\u00a0 Again, the chocolate and coffee notes have taken a backseat to an almond-like nuttiness, brown sugar, plums, dates and a milk chocolate finish.\u00a0 The dark fruits are rather alluring and the brown sugar adds a pleasant sweetness to this beer. I may actually like this better with 18 months on it than I did when it was fresh.<\/p>\n
It’s little experiments like this that make cellaring beer fun.\u00a0 Sadly, that was the last bottle of this in the cellar.\u00a0 I may revisit it, though, and pick up a few more bottles at some point.\u00a0 I’d like to see how this beer continues to develop past the year-and-a-half mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Stoudts Fat Dog Imperial Oatmeal Stout has a bit of chocolate and black licorice on the palate with a little nuttiness in the finish once this warms up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[941],"yoast_head":"\n
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