Oatmeal Milk Stout

River Horse Oatmeal Milk Stout 6.7%

      River Horses Oatmeal Milk Stout, dark beer with a sweet aroma. Stouts are dark beers and the example of stouts that everyone knows is Guinness Stout. The River Horse version of the stout is completely different than Guinness version. When pouring this beer one cannot help but notice the dark color on the beer and the dark color of the head (foam at the top of the beer). The aroma that the Oatmeal Milk Stout gives off is a sweet aroma which invites the drinker in for a taste of the nectar. Plunging in after the sweet aroma, one begins to taste a sweet stout on their lips. The sweet taste comes from the malt that the beer brews with to give it the sweetness. The stout leaves the drinker with a sweet milky aftertaste which drinking a stout shows the full body of the beer off to the drinker. When looking at stouts a drinker wants to see that dark beer because that is what they are expecting, to see as well as the sweet taste of the Stout. 

First Glimpse of the Oatmeal Milk Stout

Glimpse of the Darkness of the Stout

Head of the Oatmeal Milk Stout

River Horse Brewery is a local brewery to me because it originated in Lambertville, New Jersey. Then they moved to Ewing, New Jersey. River Horse has become a favorite local craft brewery of mine because of their style of beers. The oatmeal milk stout is an example of how to brew a great tasting beer. The complex and subtle taste of this beer allows one to become a fan of stouts. The oatmeal milk stout has a silky and smooth taste to the beer and is thick yet creamy taste to the beer. Stouts that I have looked at recently have been all around ten or eleven percent, so this stout does not have as much alcohol content in but still packs a great stout taste. After drinking this Stout one might want to look at Founders Breakfast Stout, which is one of the more popular stouts out there. Another Stout one might one to try after this would be Elysian Dragonstooth Stout. On a scale of one to one hundred I would have to give this beer a 84. Oatmeal Milk Stout would be recommended for anyone trying to get their foot into trying stouts, this would be a good starting stout beer to try.