Wychwood Black Wych 4.5%

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

Black color with some brown hues. Mild aroma of roasted malt. Mild flavor of roasted malt. A very average stout, I’m not a fan of this brewery, the beers I’ve tasted from them range from ordinary to awfull : Hobgoblin, Fiddler’s elbow and this one.

Like the other Wychwood beers I have tried so far, this is below average. Pours a nice dark color with a slight coffee aroma but the flavor was seriously lacking. Thin and metallic and too fizzy. Maybe this is what a lightstruck Stout tastes like? Damn these clear bottles!

Slight coffee aroma, deep garnet, slim head. Weak coffee flavour, good bitterness, malt after taste. Dry, creamy and smooth. Seems more like a nut brown ale than a stout.

Bouteille claire de 500 ml achetée à l’ANB de Caraquet, N-B. Arôme: Odeur de chocolat et de café torréfié. Apparence: La couleur est noire presque opaque avec une faible densité de bulle. Présence d’un mince col pétillant mais absence de dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût de café et de chocolat. La durée de l’arrière goût est moyenne. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture minérale. L’effervescence en bouche est moyenne. Présence d’amertume en arrière goût. (Rating #327)

This really is a terrible stout in my opinion. I have not been overly impressed by this brewer or their importer Eurobubblies. Tastes like what would happen if you mixed Guinness and Newcastle together, and then ate a loaf of bread with it. Literally like burnt cold coffee with a piece of melted dark chocolate stirred in.

Nice black color, but apparent even on inspection that this would disappoint. Virtually no aroma--or at least, not enough to survive the half-senile old man chain-smoking next to me in the pub, despite the fact that I got my nose so close to the beer that I ended up snorting it into my right nostril. If anything, a faint smokiness like a piece of charcoal you discover in your BBQ grill the next spring after having left it on the patio since the previous September. Oddly large bubbles retained on the glass. Sweet flavor, but without any support through the finish. (cask at Hobgoblin pub, Oxford; a Wychwood pub)

Skunky grain aroma. Clever label, but Wychwood has *got* to shake that clear bottle. Pretty dry, somewhat hoppy and rye cracker-like. Unremarkable. Body is too light. Coffee bitter finish goes on for a while.

Foamy tan head on a dark brown body with a read gleam. Weak aroma of malt and a little coffee. Flavor is malty and grassy with notes of coffee and citrus. Mild but easy drinkable!