Wychwood Black Wych 4.5%

Formerly brewed at Wychwood (Refresh UK - Marstons plc)
Style: Stout
Witney, England

500 ml clear bottle. Dark burgundy colour with a mostly diminishing frothy tan coloured head. Roasty, light chocolate, and vinous aroma with somewhat off-putting lactic and almost grainy notes. Dry, roasted, toasted grain, instant coffee, and chocolate flavours with a licorice and over-oaked chardonnay finish. Medium bodied, smooth but lightly oily mouthfeel. Weird.

There isn't much aroma at all in this. Maybe a faint roastedness. Extreamly dark redish amber when held up to the bright afternoon sun. Small head. There really isn't anything too special about this. Light burnt roastedness in the flavour. Mainly watery in the mouth.

Very dark with a brown small creamy head. Roasted, light sweet aroma. The taste is bitter roasted malt. Quite a good ber but nothing extraordinary.

Black in colour with some hints of red. There’s hardly any aroma to this beer, and hardly any flavor either. There’s some suggestion of black patent and some caramel malts, but those flavors are faint at best. The body is also thin and watery. The only real stout like quality that it has is its colour.

From the bottle this is a very thin stout,no head,nothing exciting going on here.

Thinly pale spectre of a stout this turned out to be, more a dark ale than anything closely resembling a dry stout. Poured into an English pint glass, a short dense tan head formed quite slowly atop a deep ruby brown, almost black, body. Aroma was quite subtle, with dry roasted grain, a little biscuity malt and an underlying metallic scent that didn’t quite fit. Quite dry and a little smoky in the mouth, the metallic hint was no longer perceivable and it it’s place only a little malt character came through. Toffee and burnt sugar, lightly roasted grain and dry ’Black patent’ made up it’s overly light mouth feel, with a slight liquorice finish once it warmed. Has a light malty aftertaste that hangs around just long enough for the next mouthful to replace it. Showed reasonable balance in it’s grainy-bitter flavour, though, but it was overly thin and a not very exciting Stout to drink. Mediocre!!!

This beer is pretty sucky. Aroma of old, peppery dishwater. Appearance was typical for a stout, beige head, opaque in color, etc. Flavor had nothin doin'. Very boring and unoriginal, stale coffee. Mouthfeel was slimey and thin.

Dark black and very little white foam head. Aroma is bland and somewhat skunked, malty. Flavor is smightly chalky from the initial bitterness, then follows rather boringly.