We continue on our stout odyssey with Goose Island Oatmeal Stout. Another week without a food show, but don’t worry it’s on its way.
News
This story is an update from one we brought you earlier about beersicles in Virgina. There is a bill in the Virginia General Assembly is considering a bill that will allow bars to serve beer popsicles and similar alcohol-spiked foods. The bill states that the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) cannot prohibit the sale of food products containing alcohol, as long as those products are being sold to persons over the age of 21 The issue surrounding the bill originated after the ABC tried to prohibit the sale of beer popsicles at a Northern Virginia restaurant. The hop-sicles, as some called them, generated widespread discussion, prompting Internet videos showing how to make the beer pops. The ABC attempted to prohibit the sale of alcoholic foods because it violated current law stating that alcohol must be served in its original container, or be poured from a tap.
Goose Island Oatmeal Stout
- Tonight we have our first American stout tonight with Goose Island Oatmeal Stout.
- Goose Island is a Chicago brewery opened in 1988 by John Hall and it continued to grow over the years, today shipping to 15 states.
- One of the interesting things about this brewery is that they have two brew pubs, but neither one of them actually do any bottling. Instead, they have a third brewery that is a complete production facility located in the city.
- Goose Island Oatmeal Stout. It weighs in at 5.00% ABV, and is classified as an oatmeal stout. An Oatmeal stout is typically much smoother than regular stouts due to the addition of the oats to the beer. Also, there is a bit more sweetness typically hanging around in Oatmeal Stouts.
- This beer is not quite as black as ones in the past couple weeks, but it most certainly was still very dark. It had a really smooth mouth feel to it, although I thought it may have been a little light in that area, or in other words it felt more like water than like whole milk.
- The taste had no hops to it what so ever in my mind but did have the chocolate and roasted malts present here again, but not over powering. There is most certainly some bitterness here, but it is more an espresso type of bittnerness as opposed to a hoppy bitterness.
- Overall, its not a bad stout, and most certainly a good one if you are going to have more than a couple in a night.
Next Week
Next week we head to the West Coast and look at Rogue’s Shakespeare Stout from Rogue Brewing Company.
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