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| | World of Beer: Kitchen Table Tastings - A Trio of Black Beers |
 | | The Wolaver's Oatmeal Stout, an organic ale I picked up on a late-2004 trip through Vermont, is a lovely deep purple-brown stout with a suitably porridge-ish aroma holding some gentle fruity notes. |
 | | The start is plummy, reminding me a bit of ruby port, while the body settles down more into a complex blend of roast and fruit, mixing roasted grain and very faint burnt toast with plum and date and perhaps some hints of prune, complemented by an apparent creaminess derived from the oats. |
 | | The weak side to this beer is the finish, which is relatively quick and one-dimensional relative to the more interesting body, but overall this is a pretty damn good beer which, like all the Wolaver's ales I've tasted lately, needs make no excuse for being organic. |
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