Welsh Black
Snowdon Craft Brewery in Conwy, Conwy, Wales 🏴
Mild - Dark Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.44
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Rich, dark and full of malt flavours, this black bitter owes its characteristics to the large amount of chocolate malt giving it a velvety smooth rich coffee finish. No aroma hops are added to this beer, instead seven types of grain are used to develop the flavour.
Previously available as Great Orme Welsh Black
Previously available as Great Orme Welsh Black
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6.1/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle: Poured a deep brown almost black with a hint of red at the edges, head was thick brown colored. Aroma is light smoke, roasted malts. Taste is rich malts, biscuit, light caramel and bitter chocolate.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Apr 2026
at 13:13
Historic check-in
Tried
on 06 Mar 2023
at 19:34
6.4/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Apr 2020
at 00:40
7.1/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Apr 2019
at 14:47
6.4/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2017
at 06:12
6.1/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Sep 2017
at 13:54
6.2/10
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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.
Tried
from Cask
on 07 Aug 2016
at 04:07
6.9/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Jun 2016
at 16:23
6.4/10
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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.
Tried
from Cask
on 11 Mar 2016
at 05:00
8/10
Tried
on 09 Mar 2016
at 13:47