Welsh Black
Snowdon Craft Brewery (prev. Great Orme Brewery) in Conwy, Conwy, Wales 🏴
Mild - Dark Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.45
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Previously available as Great Orme Welsh Black
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5
500ml bottle. Poured a clear dark brown, almost black colour with a short-lived frothy off-white head. The aroma is roasty malt, light liqourice, ash tray. The flavour is moderate to light liqourice bitter, light sweet, with a smooth, rich, roasty, liqourice, light sweet caramel, light hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from Sarkynorthener’s livestock wales mission; clear golden yellow pour with a bubbly off white head, aroma has citrus, taste has sweet caramel, slightly floral, citrus.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle from Mayford Garden Centre, Woking. Chocolate aroma with a berry edge - fruit and nut choc. Dark, with cola tints. Initial frothy off-white head soon fades. Medium bitter - and what is immediately noticeable is the sour dark fruit/berry streak. Some underlying malt and chocolate, more so in the finish. Light bodied. Thin but with some body to it, watered down milk rather than cream. The carbonation is fizzy but very low key. Astringent finish. It's fine. Could do with being less astringent.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Bottle. Backlog rating from bottle collection and historic scoring. Source not recorded. No tasting notes kept, just rating.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Cask @ Black Bull Inn, Bangor. Very dark reddish-brown with a creamy head. Has a few roasted malts in both aroma and taste, but whilst it’s very mild in character, it’s not quite a mild in style, it’s still more of a bitter. A few roasted malts are also evident in its taste.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Nose is chocolate roasted malt light soy, sweetened milk. Taste is sweet milk, leading to milk chocolate, toast, hint of black current, caramel, drop off coffee. Mouthfeel is full. This is very nice; I?d assumed grave things about this brewer based on a catastrophe of a golden ale, but this redeems them somewhat.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Cask at the Rose & Crown, Sandhurst. A glossy, opaque black pour with a ring of beige head; aroma of demerara sugar; rather thin but satisfying with a malty body, and some brown sugar, but not too sweet; then a dry finish with a touch of licorice. A rather good mild.
