Moorhouses Black Cat (Bottle)

Brewed by Moorhouses
Style: Mild Ale
Burnley, England

This bottle is ancient. Aroma of berries over lightly toasted malt. Almost opaque, but in front of halogen it’s a beautiful ruby red. The beige head hardly exists. Starts with light berry, moves to roasted malts, berries make a comeback, and the end is toasted malt with some standup hop. Medium mouthfeel. I’d say the berry is blackberry if anything. A dry finish. Amazing. I think having the bottle for 5 years or so may have allowed some flavor development. I certainly don’t recall this complexity the last time I tried it.

Moorehouse’s Black Cat. A very attractive odd shaped 22.9 oz brown bottle, just a little more than a bomber. Has a slight roasted malt aroma. Pouring it into the mug yields a very nice dark brew that is almost opaque. The first tase of this brew makes you immediately think you got an imperial stout, but as soon as you start thinking that, it goes into a mild stout palate. Does not have any of the offensiveness that I was preparing myself for. Definitely the qualities of a stout but not the mephitic qualities. If you like stout, you better check into this even tho it is classified as mild ale. The carbonation is not clangorous but it is present and creamy. Now that I’m looking over my list I see that this is my first mild ale. I think I like this style. This beer is very enjoyable and easy to like. The finish builds to a mild bitterness that hangs around for a while but it is nothing caitiff like those imperial stouts. Most everything about this brew is a positive. I think I have found a new style of beer that I can really sink my palate into. I’ll be looking for more of these mild ales, I wonder if they are all this enjoyable.

pours pitch black with a creamy brown head aroma was malty roast with chocolate and coffee taste of coffee & pepperish thin in both flavor and palate

pours black with ruby highlights. no head. bitter, roasty, molasses aroma. flavor is roasty, bitter and dry. light bodied. i liked it.

Bottled. Caramel nose with a bit of pine. Pours clear dark brown with an off-white head. Medium-light body, moderate carbonation. Taste of nuts and caramel. Some roasty note show up in the finish, along with a grainy quality and a bit of herbal hoppy bitterness. This would be OK as a grocery store beer, and I might get more if it’s handy, but I’m not going out of my way to acquire any more.

bottle from cairo liquors ($3.50). almost completely opaque black, just a hint of clear dark red on the edges of the bottom of the pint...fairly smll tan head subsides quickly leaving a little lacing. aroma is mostly roast with a touch of caramel, but is fairly mild (at least at this temp). body is suprisingly light, with flavor dominated by the roast and finished with a nice clean english hop finish. not bad, and very drinkable if you don’t mind the amount of roast (which i don’t). Still, nothing all that great.

Modest Caramel nose. Pours dark ruby red with moderate tan head. Caramel taste with some frutyness. Watery on the palate. I can imagine the folks in England pounding down lots of this brew ‘cause it is so easy drinking.

Pours a deep brown color with a quickly disappearing off-white head. Lightly roasted, sweet malt aroma is pleasant. Light mouthfeel, very faint smoked malt flavor. A decent brew.