Arbor Brewing Espresso Love

Arbor Brewing Espresso Love Arbor Brewing Company Ypsilanti, MI Ah- a little reprieve from the beer hiatus with a gift six pack I received for helping a friend of mine with some computer work. Well, it was more like a gift 8 pack but this one was included twice and Jolly Pumpkin's Dark Dawn Stout has already been reviewed so it's unofficially a six pack. Yay! I was a bit surprised to see this one listed as an oatmeal stout on BA but only because I thought it tasted more like a milk stout. Hardly effervescent and rather flat, which is quite unusual for Arbor whose beers seem to want to spew out 75% of the time. This is not a knock against them whatsoever because their beers are pretty much top notch all around. This one I'm not quite sold on. The blending of the sweet with the gruff coffee is tantalizing, but it seems that a little more dark chocolate accent would push this over the hump. As is it reminds me a lot of the Hitachino Sweet stout poured into a cup of semi-rich coffee and chilled for breakfast but a sweet tooth got it before it could finish festering its goodness completely. -Wrtwurst