Wychwood Black Wych 4.5%

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

500ml bottle from Sainsbury’s. OK this is it. No more Wychwood beers for me. Don’t care about the ratings anymore. I had one pint of the Prince Albert on cask that was fine, but otherwise, a waste of my drinking capacity. No more. This one has a thin beige head. Dead choc/coffee malt aroma. Some sourness in mouth with bitter choc kicking in. Lacks depth, character and taste. Thanks Wychwood for the variety, but no thanks

not much aroma, just a little malt and fruit. tastes better: roasted malt, some bitterness and some fruit, a little grassy. finishes more bitter and grassy. thin bodied. not so good(no coffee: well only a bit in the finishing part, no chocolate, a pity), a bland stout.

Pours very dark brown from the bottle (maybe black). No characteristic smell. light to medium body. Not the best thing from the brewery.

Pretty bad example of a stout. Aroma much like a simple ale. Appearance lacking the blackness of a great stout. And last but not least, it didn’t even taste good, very light and unoffensive.

Black in color with tinges of red. Head is small, mostly diminishing, and leaves little lacing. Aroma is rather bland; smells like a well-used, empty, and rinsed out coffee-cup. Flavor is slightly coffeeish and lightly malted. Finish is kinda sorta hopped, but its all gone before you can say Abracadabra. By no means is this putrid, but it is a rather light stout. Perhaps a good training stout for beginners?

i wish these guys spent as much time on crafting the beer as they do on there labels.talk about bad beer save your money and buy a domestic beer you’ll be,better off that way

Rather thin and weak. Grassy aroma. Roasted flavour. Dry and slightly hopbitter finish.

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)