Blackwater Mild
Crouch Vale Brewery in South Woodham Ferrers, Essex, England 🏴
Mild Regular|
Score
6.56
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Smooth and malty dark mild for drinking in quantity! Fruity and full – the use of roast barley in the mash provides not only deep-ruby colour, but also a subtle, clean and dry flavour.
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6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
2nd June 2012
Cask at the The Sun Inn Summer Beer Festival, Kelvedon. Very dark brown - red beer. Good suddy tan head. Smooth dry palate. Very mild dark malt, not bitter or roasty. A little dark chocolate. A little bit of red berry fruits with a trace of orange. Finishes dry and smooth with a little coffee. Pretty decent mild.
Cask at the The Sun Inn Summer Beer Festival, Kelvedon. Very dark brown - red beer. Good suddy tan head. Smooth dry palate. Very mild dark malt, not bitter or roasty. A little dark chocolate. A little bit of red berry fruits with a trace of orange. Finishes dry and smooth with a little coffee. Pretty decent mild.
Tried
from Cask
on 23 Jun 2012
at 07:53
6.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Cask@The Elm Tree, Cambridge. Very deep amber colour, close to black, with a mediumsized beige head. Aroma is mild toasted notes, some fruits, quite sweet as well as mild maltyness. Flavour is mild roasted malts, some toasted notes as well as some dark berries and slight wooden notes.
Tried
from Cask
on 08 Aug 2011
at 02:41
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Cask at the Harp. Black-brown pour with a soft head. Chalky, roasted malts on the nose. Faint sweet flavor, dry roasted malts, some leafy bitterness. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Some burnt sugar in the finish, dry roast, slight ash. Not bad.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Jun 2011
at 12:11
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
From cask at Wenlock Arms. Pours pitch black with a small tan head. Aroma is dark malty and roasted breadish, mild fruity note. Bitter, vague citric and fruity hoppy shining through. Vague chocolate note coming through. Ends dry, bitter and slight citric.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Aug 2010
at 03:24
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at the Live and Let Live, Cambridge. Deep ruby red colour with a cream head; the aroma is nutty and malty; thinly bodied with sweet chocolate malt flavours; the finish is sweet, oily and gently bitter.
Tried
from Cask
on 18 Jan 2010
at 14:42
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (handpump) @ Wenlock Arms, 26 Wenlock Road, London, Greater London England N1 7TA.Clear dark brown color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, chocolate. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20081228]
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Mar 2009
at 14:00
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On gravity at the Hillgrove Porter Stores, Bristol 2/11/07. Tried as part of the HPS’s beer festival, this was black with a red tinge and a decent off-white head. Slight blackcurrant aroma with plenty of roasty notes. Slightly sweet taste with an earty hop finish. Good.
Tried
on 16 Nov 2007
at 07:02
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask @ Wenlock Arms. Pours a dark brown almost black color with an off-white head. Roasted malty aroma with some hints of chocolate. Sweet malty roasted flavor with some hints of hops and caramel. Roasted malty finish.
Tried
from Cask
on 16 Oct 2007
at 07:59
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at Merton Summer Beer Festival 07-07-07. Dark brown with slight red hue. This beer was a very popular beer and seemed to go down very well particulalry amongst the darker beer fans. A nice slightly fruity aroma, was followed by some pleasant roasted flavours, very tasty with some dark summer fruits coming through. I didn’t rate this as highly as some but to be fair I didn’t really have enough to do it justice having only had a few sips, but very good nonetheless.
Tried
from Cask
on 09 Jul 2007
at 04:50
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Deep black colour, with a little sweet blackcurent in nose, watery, roast malt with little roast bitterness. and a little smokey.
Tried
on 01 Jun 2007
at 07:14