Terrapin Coffee Oatmeal Imperial Stout

When I have an American craft beer with coffee in it, I usually try to make sure that beer is on a Friday or Saturday in case there is enough caffeine to play games with me sleeping that night. So Coffee Oatmeal Imperial Stout has sat in the cellar for a short period.

It’s looks like they changed the label since my first go around with this beer: it now include W-n-B. A quick bit of research shows me that this is an alias for Wake-n-Bake, sort of like a super hero. I like super heroes, so that lands a good impression on me.

W-n-B is brewed by Terrapin Brewing Company out of Athens, Georgia. I have had the pleasure of having about 10 different flavors from Terrapin and, on the whole, I have been pleased with their offerings.

Coffee Oatmeal Imperial Stout pours with a rich, brown foam. The aroma and taste are close with coffee, chocolate, dark malts, etc that all intermingle to give a great backbone that it enhanced with a zealous helping of local coffee. I would say the coffee might be a bit over done as it dose seem to mask a lot of the beer itself, still I find it quit tasty. Enjoy!

Aroma: 8, Taste: 8, Look: 8, Drinkability: 8, Overall: 8.0

Useless Fact: A full seven percent of the entire Irish barley crop goes to the production of Guinness beer.

Last night we tasted six American craft beers from Terrapin. It was a good array of beers from their regular series (SunRay Wheat Beer 6/10, Hopsecutioner 8/10, and India Brown Ale 7/10), their "Monster Beer Tour" series (Big Hoppy Monster 8/10 and Coffee Oatmeal Imperial Stout 8/10), and their "Side Project" series (Volume 9 – Dark Side 7/10).

I not going to go over each beer seperately as you can read the reviews but I would have to say that Coffee Oatmeal Imperial Stout was both Rich’s and my favorite beer out of the group. The monster beer tour series beers seemed to have more flavor, more aroma, and more complexity than the regular beers. I don’t know if it is a long winter of drinking big beers that made the regulars not live up to expectations.

Still all the beers were above average and had their good points. I will be looking forward to more time spent with a Terrapin. Enjoy!