Salty Nut Brewery Make Stout Great Again

**Aroma:** “Rich sweet chocolate with a high malty sweetness. Reminds me of malted chocolate balls. Covers the spectrum of chocolate aromas. Moderate cherry sweetness as well. Other roast characters are present (slight toast, roasty notes), but they sit behind the intense chocolate aroma of this beer. Slight piney American hops.” **Flavor:** “With the aroma, I expected a higher sweetness from the flavor. The first hit is a rich-dark-chocolate-bar bitterness. As it sits on the tongue, the sweetness of the chocolate comes out but fades into an assertive bitterness with citrus and pine American hops. Finished dry with bitterness that lingers.” **Overall:** “This beer was full of intense chocolate flavors that dominated both the smell and taste, but so much potential in the amazing aroma doesn't all translate when you taste the beer. The aroma and flavor are like-able separately, but the aroma sets up an expectation that the flavor deviates from.”

“Alcoholic heat in the nose obscures hints of roasted malt, chocolate, and caramel. Booze carries into the flavor, stripping away more subtle complexities. Roasty, smoky, with pleasantly malty profile.”

**Aroma:** “Rich roasty notes with medium chocolate, light coffee. A little nutty.” **Flavor:** “Roasty chocolate up front with a slight brightness to it. A smooth creaminess hits in the front and carries through. The creaminess blends with some chocolate roast character to provide the taste of a light milk chocolate bar. Medium vanilla and roasted coffee as it starts to warm. The oats come through to support. The finish is quite dry.” **Overall:** “Very creamy and smooth character from the oats and lactose make this an easy-drinking stout. There was a nice sweetness and balance from the roasty character. The chocolate and toasty malt character come through nicely. This was a well executed oatmeal cream stout that I could session all evening long.”