Mash Brewing Black

Brewed by Mash Brewing
Style: Schwarzbier
Perth, Australia

Part of the sampler tray at the brewery. Dark chestnut brown, thin brown head. Low aroma of coffee and burnt malt. Nice dark malts in the palate, coffee, chocolate, burnt toast, but a little on the thin side.

Tap @ clancy’s Pretty uninteresting black lager, crisp and clean though. Really thought there would be some darker grain flavours

Missed you again, bluevegie, must have nearly fallen over each other without realising it. Anyway, second on the list. Poured a translucent, deep, cola brown with a short-lived, soapy, off-white head that left some firm lacing. Very subtle aroma of burnt wood, coffee beans and dark chocolate that took a little to get roused, yet stayed with it for the length playing a big part in the flavour. Flavour leans towards strong espresso coffee flavours with just a touch of mocha and a subtle, sweet richness of darker grains that follow into the thin and smooth, smoky and bitter malt swallow. Body is similarly thin, the carbonation a little too effervescent, but it works well enough for a newly brewed beer. Suppose getting out the kinks comes with time. Still, offers the patrons a new contrast in their selection. (On draught at the brewery/restaurant)

Served with very little room left in the glass to have any sort of head, black from a distance but up close good chestnut tinges, bit like a tooheys old without the body, thin vegemite and medicinal flavours, toasted malt bitterness, when you find the aroma you get chocolate and coffee and it does come out in the taste. Needs more focus on the beers than the restaurant.