Pixley Blackcurrant Stout
Wadworth in Devizes, Wiltshire, England 🏴
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.55
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This exciting, special brew is based on an original 1900 Wadworth double-stout recipe.
It is a rich, dark beer, with a big chocolate aroma and flavour ‘up front’. The addition of pure blackcurrant juice, from the Pixley Black variety, imparts an intriguing fruit finish.
Hops used: Bramling Cross, Cascade, Fuggles and Goldings
It is a rich, dark beer, with a big chocolate aroma and flavour ‘up front’. The addition of pure blackcurrant juice, from the Pixley Black variety, imparts an intriguing fruit finish.
Hops used: Bramling Cross, Cascade, Fuggles and Goldings
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6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask (handpump) @ The Standing Order, 62-66 George St, Edinburgh, Scotland EH2 2LR.Clear dark brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, dark roasted, burnt malt, fruity - berries (blackcurrant maybe). Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet, light acidic and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration, berries - blackcurrant acidic. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20101029]
Tried
from Cask
on 17 Jul 2011
at 06:36
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6
Combined rating from Willow Walk and Samuel Peto pubs. Second sample better than first as no diacetyl. Baked blackcuarrant and sour liquorice flavour. Just bizarre. Can’t tell if it is work of genius or just not quite right in terms of flavours. The sour baked elements I like. Crazyness in a glass.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Nov 2010
at 05:39
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
[Cask at the Back of Beyond (JDW), Reading] Deep ruby-brown, negligible head. Dryness is dominant, but there’s some sweetness behind. Flavour is quite strong on blackcurrant leaf, rather than the actual blackcurrants themselves. There’s a fair bit of sourness behind, as if the balckcurrants used weren’t quite ripe. The roasted malt of a stout is fairly well hidden behind this. I was looking forward to a rich stout enhanced by a rich Ribena-type flavour, and this wasn’t it. Overall a very unusual beer - something I would normally welcome, but it didn’t quite work for me in this case. I ended up feeling the blackcurrant leaf flavour would have been better used in a golden ale than a stout.
Tried
from Cask
on 05 Nov 2010
at 16:59
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Cask at Standing Order, Edinburgh, Scotland. Black colour, beige head. Aroma of chocolate, black currant, hard roasted malts. Flavour is blackcurrant, coffee, bit of chocolate, roasted bitter finish. Light bodied.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Nov 2010
at 11:51
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask at the Old Manor (JDW), Bracknell. I was really looking forward to this one as I’m a fan of the Wadworth brewery and addicted to blackcurrants - but in the end I found this rather disappointing - the chocolate malts almost completely masking the fruit.
The colour was deep mahongany with a ring of cream head; the aroma was rich and chocolately; the consistency was rather heavy with a dry chocolate flavour to start, then some sweeter fruit appeared, but these were not obviously blackcurrants; the finish was dry and biscuity.
A good stout, but not what I was hoping for.
The colour was deep mahongany with a ring of cream head; the aroma was rich and chocolately; the consistency was rather heavy with a dry chocolate flavour to start, then some sweeter fruit appeared, but these were not obviously blackcurrants; the finish was dry and biscuity.
A good stout, but not what I was hoping for.
Tried
from Cask
on 03 Nov 2010
at 11:30
5.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Cask at the Square Bottle, JDW, Chester. Poured near pitch black with a medium head. Aroma was roasted malt and blackcurrant, quite faint. Taste was blackcurrant to start and a blackcurrant and roasted malt finish. Couldn’t taste its 6%. Not much stout like qualities to it, not that impressed.
Tried
from Cask
on 02 Nov 2010
at 05:13
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
27th October 2010
Spoons Fest! Clear but very dark brown beer. Big off white head. Touch of bramble and blackcurrant on the nose. Light dry palate. low carbonation. Tart but light blackcurrant over a dry dark malt base. Nice combination but severely let down but some very unwelcome sulphur. Not enough to ruin it completely but just really annoying. Finishes very dry. This would have been a 3.6 without the sulphur, hope I can try a better kept version.
Update - tried twice more in 2 different pubs. Same sulphur - bah!
Spoons Fest! Clear but very dark brown beer. Big off white head. Touch of bramble and blackcurrant on the nose. Light dry palate. low carbonation. Tart but light blackcurrant over a dry dark malt base. Nice combination but severely let down but some very unwelcome sulphur. Not enough to ruin it completely but just really annoying. Finishes very dry. This would have been a 3.6 without the sulphur, hope I can try a better kept version.
Update - tried twice more in 2 different pubs. Same sulphur - bah!
Tried
from Can
on 31 Oct 2010
at 04:27
6.8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Cask-conditioned at the Commercial rooms, Bristol 26/10/10. Near black with a tight tan head. Light aroma of tart blackcurrants, with some dark chocolate and roasted malts. Flavour was similar with a short bitter finish. Very easy drinking for 6% ABV and no sign of the Wadworth house character, which is a good thing.
Tried
from Cask
on 27 Oct 2010
at 23:56