Purple Moose Dark Side Of The Moose / Ochr Dywyll Y Mws
Cask; Regular. Also available bottled.
Ochr Dywyll y Mws/Dark Side of the Moose is a delicious dark ale brewed from Welsh mountain water and natural ingredients. Using a delicate blend of dark crystal malt, roasted barley and Bramling Cross hops the 'Dark Side' exhibits a rich malty flavour balanced with fruity bitterness.
Ochr Dywyll y Mws/Dark Side of the Moose is a delicious dark ale brewed from Welsh mountain water and natural ingredients. Using a delicate blend of dark crystal malt, roasted barley and Bramling Cross hops the 'Dark Side' exhibits a rich malty flavour balanced with fruity bitterness.
3.3
158 reviews
Porthmadog, Caernarfonshire, Wales
Community reviews
Cask at PoW, Farnborough. Dark fruit and creamy coffee aroma. Dark cola brown. Bubbly off-white head. Light bitter with a mix of sweetness and sourness. Creamy berries with a touch of coffee. Light bodied. Thin but slick. Flat carbonation. Slightly astringent finish. When Insaw how thin and relatively light it was pouring I had my doubts. However it's fruity enjoyable stuff.
Chestnut aroma, mid brown pour with frothy head, earthy hop and caramel malt. Decent session beer.
Pours a clear dark brown colour with a medium sized tan head that settled. Aroma is roasted malt, coffee grounds and nutty. Moderately sweet taste, roasted malts, some caramel and burnt grain flavours. Not much bitterness but some dryness in the finish.
Pint on tap at the Hedley Verity.
Medium creamy beige head. Clear almost black pour. A nice smooth porter.
Cocoa and roast coffee. Watery but ok. Lacking depth to be v good.
500ml bottle. Pours cola brown with a medium head. Aroma is cola, cocoa and roast. Taste is watery cola and yeasty roast. Dusty cocoa finish.
Half at the Crosse Keys. It was a porter, malt, a bit of bitterness, but not much of a flavour profile. It wasn't that impressive.
Swansea Weathespoon well kept. Slight head to the bottom. Dark slightly roasted malt flavours. Very enjoyable.
weatherspoons LGW South
Glass, 12 ounces, at the 2016 Swansea Beer & Cider Festival, trip to Swansea, Amsterdam and Paris with Louise, savoured on August 26 2016; eye: mahogany, semi-opaque, beige head made up of rather large bubbles, no lacing; nose: malt, light grain, English hops, spices including pepper; mouth: malt, light grain, English hops, spices including pepper, light astringency, medium body, below-average carbonation, surprisingly bitter, grainy texture; overall: correct
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Verre, 12 onces, bue au 2016 Swansea Beer & Cider Festival, voyage à Swansea, Amsterdam et Paris avec Louise, savourée le 24 août 2016; œil : acajou, semi-opaque, mousse beige formée de bulles plutôt grosses, pas de dentelle; nez : malt, léger grain, houblon anglais, épices dont poivre; bouche : malt, léger grain, houblon anglais, épices dont poivre, légère astringence, corps moyen, carbonatation sous la moyenne, curieusement amère, texture granuleuse; en résumé : correct
Ruby brown thin silky head taste liquorice powdered chocolate a tad thin in body but decent enough.
Gravity Cask Half Pint at Battersea Beer Festival, London in Feb 2010 - Dark Brown in colour. Malty; roast malts, caramel, chocolate. Fruity; dark fruits, raisins. Hoppy; grassy hops. Sweetish malts and fruit/hop bitterness. OK. Drinkable. (2010-02)
500ml bottle at home bought from Brewery shop. Also had on cask before,
Clear brown colour with beige head. This isn’t as good as I remember it, caramel nutty malty notes, not a deep body to it, Ok porter but definitely not as good as I remember.
500 ml bottle. Pours clear brown with off-white, short-lived head. Grainy aroma with a hint of dark chocolate. Roasted taste with a bitter chocolate finish. Light bodied, pleasant. Nice beer, but nothing amazing.
Gravity cask@Ealing Beer Festival, London
Copper color, small steady beige head. Aroma has caramel and some fruityness. Light-bodied. Riped fruits, caramel in the flavor with some English hops. No roasted barley found.
Fine beige foamy head and clear brown body. Soft nut aroma and that’s it. Flavour is soft hazelnut, some dark chocolate, malt. Dry finish. Rather boring but perfectly okay for a session or three.
Dark amber, slightly sweet, gently hopped and just teetering over the border from bitter to English old ale. Wouldn’t go so far as to call it a porter though. Quite nice and very drinkable despite the sweetness.
Lukt: Frukter, humle og malt.
Utseende: Mørk gyllen.
Skum/kullsyre: Tynt skum.
Smak: Frukter, humle og malt.
Hvor: 27 th Ealing Beer Festival.
Medium: Tapp@150ml, ABV@4,6%, Når@06.07.2016
Thanks to my parents for bringing back a bottle of this. Tastes how it looks f that makes any sense, little sticky, some toffee, quite nice and mild
Cask at The Swan, Stone. A clear deep ruby brown colour with a frothy off white head. Aroma of dark fruits, biscuit, slight caramel, a little chocolate and subtle spicy hops. Taste of dark fruits, biscuit, some chocolate, slight red berries and subtle spicy hops. Medium bodied and soft carbonation. A dry, fruity, chocolatey bitterness in the finish. Like most beers of this style, it’s very fruit and nut chocolate bar flavoured, however this as got a good body and I can drink a few of these.
Bottle. Nose is fruity, plum, hints of smoke; bland. Taste. Is toffee, roasted malts, pleasing herbal hop note, fruity, blackcurrant hobby is smoke, toast, slightly metallic. Mouthfeel is slick. Decent bitter.
Dark amber color. Roasted, smokey aroma, with a bit of hops. Brown sugar/mollasses flavor, medicinal/herbal hops, Quite dry. Not bad.
Butelka 500 ml. Ciemnobrazowy mahoniowy kolor z srednia lekko palona piana. Ciekawy aromat toffi.karmelu.palonych ciemnych cukrow. Smakuje podobnie. Dosc slodkie dzieki dodatku toffi i karmelu lecz z porzadnym goryczkowym finiszem. Ciekawe i godne polecenia.
Marcin G
Dark brown with a light beige head. Aroma of toffee and a taste of caramel and dark fruit. Dark and and slightly sweet. Fruity hops without too much bitterness. A tasty brew.
Dark appearance with thin lacy head. Thin and light bodied. Light fruity flavour. Quite plain.
Tasted this in the Salt Cot, Saltcoats (JDW) on the 14th November 2015. Cask, handpump dispense. Crystal clear mahogany in colour with a thin creamy buff head. Rich malty aroma with notes of dark plum on the nose. Creamy mouthfeel and good lacing. Mixed malts gives a moist maltloaf base with strong vinous fruits, bramble and liquorice. - reminiscent of Everards Original. Spicy pepper note to the earthy bitter aftertaste. Dry malty finish with liquorice much in evidence along with the dark berry fruit. This is a decent session porter and well recommended.
Cask at the Monks Retreat (JDW), Reading. Reddish chestnut with a tight beige head; biscuity aroma; soft plummy fruit taste, but rather thin; with a light bitterness and a biscuity finish.
Cask. Maroon brown color. Smoky aroma. Taste is malty burnt toast. Not bad.
Cask at the Briar Rose; dark brown pour a frothy beige head, roast malt aroma, taste has light roast and fruit.
Cask at the moon under water Watford jdw. Reddy chestnut brown coloured pour with a lasting cream coloured head. Aroma is spicy plummy fruits, nutty, jammy fruits. Flavour is composed of nutty, brown sugars and plummy jammy fruits, faint choc. Palate is medium bodied, lowish carbonation. Lingering tangy fruits and a little sweet.