Black Widow
Tin Whistle Brewing Company in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Brown Ale Regular|
Score
5.88
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Dark in color but light in flavor, this beer is deceiving. A light refreshing malt profile with a smooth clean finish. Hints of chocolate peak though with each sip.
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4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
On tap at Tin Whistle, pours a hazy reddish brown with a small beige head. Aroma brings out toasted malt and light fruitiness. Flavour is very bland, with toasted malt and maybe a slight hint of fruitiness. Restrained, weak and boring. Pointless beer.
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Jun 2016
at 00:26
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Nice amber-black body and a decent dark beige head. Aroma is grass and barley, like it may have been a vegetable brew. Flavour is a slightly sweet barley with hints of grass. Better than some stuff by Tin Whistle, but I can’t say I’ve been impressed by this brewer to any stretch.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Feb 2011
at 21:21
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
Nice lightish brown coloured body with a thinnish tan head. Mild aroma (no pun) of malt, light caramel and a touch of nuts. Medium-bodied; Assertive roasted malt with some light pitted fruits and a minor bit of vanilla. Aftertaste is pretty subdued with only sugars coming through and perhaps a touch of malt and nuts. Overall, a pretty unoffensive beer and one that shows relatively well - not bad by any means, just not sublime. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased a few days earlier at Sherbrooke Liquors in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, sampled at the Banff Springs hotel in Banff, Alberta on 30-December-2008.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jun 2010
at 23:06
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
bottle shared by jsquire - Pours dark amber with a thin head. The aroma and flavor are both basically just caramel malt. There’s a touch of hops in there. This thin bodied ale is only average, if that. On the plus side I didn’t notice the infected sourness that some reviewers seem to have encountered.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2007
at 14:14
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Hazy red brown ale with a thick light moka head. Pleasantr butterscotch aroma with light roasted notes. In mouth, euuughhhh! sourness comes out, with strong butter notes, nuts, and rather watery bodied. Infected!
Tried
on 28 Dec 2005
at 22:41
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
2005 bottle I assume, shared on 11/6/05 with the Montreal crew. Filtered, force carbonated, low protein density makes for a thin appearance of mahogany-tan brown. Off-white head fizzles quickly away to a ring, leaving no lace. Aroma of buttercream, light chocolate sweetness and plenty of toffee/caramel. No hops. Flavor shows no hops either, but certainly brings plenty of caramel/toffee sugariness, very one-sided, with just a faint tinge of roast. More buttercream, but not terribly heavy, with a fizzy, annoying carbonation, moderately watery texture and a finish that has some dry, lightly vegetal/sourish notes, very faint, though. Body is medium, but the sugars provide no interesting complexity.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Nov 2005
at 14:21
5.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Mahogany-brown colour. Aroma of cocoa, vanilla and toffee. Sweet palate, mainly toffeeish with some almond. The toffee gets slightly earthy in the finish but remains quite sweet. A little one-dimensional for my tastes - comes off like a liquid Tootsie Roll.
Tried
on 21 Apr 2005
at 02:52