Broken Clock That Salty Quaker Sea Salt and Caramel Oatmeal Stout.
6.8% ABV, 30 IBU. Broken Clock Brewing Cooperative, Minneapolis, MN.
The label illustration riffs on the Morton's salt label, combined with Quaker Oats. Clever, I get it... except that I can't get what's raining on him (caramels?) or what he's holding (some kind of salt shaker?)...
Thoroughly black, completely opaque, slim brownish head.
In the nose: Dark malts, caramel, smooth and creamy. Picking up the salted caramel.
In the mouth: Seas salt is foremost on the palate as we kick it off. And it hangs in there for a long spell. Caramel is just beneath it. We get some of the roast of an oatmeal stout, but the salt is dominant. Medium bodied, long, malty finish, easily consumable, but...this time, there's a but...it doesn't deliver the delights of an oatmeal stout, strays too far from caramel flavors, too taken over by the salt. I get what they were trying to do, but it doesn't work.
Ah, well, win some, lose some.
This Oatmeal stout has a generous amounts of flaked oats and caramel malt. Has chocolate, caramel, and burnt toffee flavor and aroma. Salt added to the boil adds an interesting twist to the finish.
