Black Wolf

Microbrewery in Stirling, Stirling, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Owned by Traditional Scottish Ales

Established in 2004

Contact
7c Bandeath Industrial Estate, Throsk, Stirling, UK - FK7 7NP, Scotland
Description
Many moons ago, in the black of the night, Viking invaders were about to attack our hometown of Stirling, when a howling wolf alerted the defenders, who saved the town. We raise a glass to that wolf. The Black Wolf.

Started brewing in January 2004 using the name City of Stirling Brewery. It was initially a sister brewery to Bridge of Allen and Trossachs Craft Brewery. During late 2005 a new company was formed to allow further investment and the brewery name was changed to just Stirling Brewery at the same time. The name then changed to Traditional Scottish Ales Ltd in 2006. The name changed once more in 2014 to its current version.

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5.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
50 cL bottle. Pours clear and golden amber with a lacing off-white head. Dried fruity and wineous aroma. Flavour is dry and light oxidised. Bitter and solid dry malty. Ends with a dry spiced and almost woody note.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Apr 2008 at 07:54

5.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
50 cL bottle. Pours slight cloudy orange with a dimishing off white head. Dried fruity aroma. Flavour is dried fruity and malty. Medium dry. Ends light oldish fruity and malt flavoured.
Tried from Bottle on 17 Apr 2008 at 07:37

3.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 3
Bottled at RBESG 2007. An amber beer with a thin beige head. The aroma has notes of phenol and caramel. The flavor has notes of caramel and still phenol, leading to a dry bitter caramel finish. What is it with the phenol?
Tried from Bottle on 01 Apr 2008 at 14:58

4.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 4 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 3.5
Cask at Standing Order, Edinburgh. A golden beer with a thick light orange head. The aroma is sweet with notes of butter and fruit. The body is acidic with notes of malt and flowers, and the body is thin.
Tried from Cask on 26 Mar 2008 at 17:23

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
[i] [b] Cask at The Hop Pole pubs Easter Beer Festival, Aylesbury in the company of Loz, Chris O, Ruth, Barry, Lynn 21-03-08 [/i] [/b] Good roasted smooth toasty bitterness to this. Pours black with tiny tan head smooth and easy drinking, bit earthy and some bitter chocolate. Good beer that could just have done with a little bit more going on to elevate it into very good beer territory.
Tried from Cask on 22 Mar 2008 at 03:15

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Cask (handpump) @ Marble Arch, Manchester M4, UK. Clear medium orange color with a average, creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate hoppy, flowers, perfume, toffee, butter. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. (180108)
Tried from Cask on 06 Feb 2008 at 13:52

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle at home ... Thanks to me for buying it ... amber ... light very fruit wonderfull lime citric nose ... light and fruity ... little soapy ... some lime and juicy fruity ... little drying and odd but not unpleasent linger .
Tried from Bottle on 11 Jan 2008 at 12:21

5.9/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 5.5
Bottled (BB 12/2007)
Orange-yellow-copper color, not much head. Very oaky, vanilla aroma. Sticky alcohol, light palate. Whisky flavors dominate (oak, vanilla). Aftertaste is short with dry mouthfeel. Anoher whisky gimmick beer, which is not totally bad, but not anything to drink another bottle.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Dec 2007 at 05:19

6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Bottled (thanks GarethYoung). Golden colour, not much head. Aroma is whisky barrells, oaky and wooden notes as well as quite sweet. Flavour is sweet woodenness, alcohol and quite boring.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Dec 2007 at 04:14

4.9/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 6 Overall 4.5
[i] Cask at Far From the Madding Crowd, Oxford, 20-12-07 [/i] Light amber with some haze some fruits on the nose and in the mouth but methinks that this was just starting to get a bit tired, just ok really.
Tried from Cask on 21 Dec 2007 at 01:51