It's always hard to objectively review a beer that you have had many times before and love, but I am going to try anyways with St. Ambroise Oatmeal Stout, probably my favourite stout of all time. It's a product of Montreal's Macauslan brewery which has really become a standard bearer for the small brewery come good and one of their flagship brews.
St. Ambroise Oatmeal stout is one of the finest examples of what a stout should be. It pours pitch black with an excellent off white coloured foamy head that, if poured correctly, looks like a perfect beer. When you take a sip you instantly get the creamy taste that typifies a proper stout, this creamy taste is followed by a strong coffee taste as it flows over your tongue. Some beers will advertise notes of this and that which are only noticeable to the most trained beer palate, but any beer drinker will be able to taste the coffee flavour. This coffee taste results in a decently bitter finish, certainly more bitter than a lot of stouts, but this creamy intro, coffee middle, and bitter finish are what makes St. Ambroise Oatmeal stout so unique and so tasty. It's thick texture makes it a perfect beer for those cold winter evenings, preferably in a cozy pub or next to a fire, however if I see it on tap at any time of year I am probably ordering one.
It's available year round across Canada in bottles as well as on draught at a variety of pubs and restaurants. It is definitely easiest to find on draught in it's native Quebec but I have seen it at the occasional pub in Ontario as well.
Rating: 5 steins
What you need to know
Website:
http://mcauslan.com/
Brewery address:
5080 St-Ambroise
Montréal, Québec
H4C 2G1
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/bierestambroise
Twitter:
@bierestambroise
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