Wychwood Black Wych 4.5%

Bottle: Filtered. And cask.

Ingredients: Marris Otter pale malt, Black malt, Crystal malt, Oats; Progress and Target hops.

"Black Wych was first brewed long before Jeremy Moss arrived as brewer at Wychwood. It is a 4.5 % abv brew of Maris Otter Black malt, a bit of Crystal and some oats. Hops are mainly Progress with a dash of Target, all of them copper hops with no late additions."

2.6

183 reviews

Witney, England

Community reviews

2.6 Hints of coffee and sweet dark bread in the aroma as well as taste. Very dark in color. Quite bitter and suprisingly thin and waterlike. No viscosity which is odd, since it is a stout. To be honest, neihter very bad nor very good.

3.0 Bottle 14/05/2001 Dark coloured and strong in alcohol. Malt flavours present.

2.5 Bottle - Pours out opaque black with a thin tan head. Smells roasted malt licorice and a slight hop almost skunk aroma. Thin quite sweet stout rather one dimentional but not a bad sesion stout if you can handle the sweetness. Needs a a little bittering hops to round out the finish.

1.4 Øl købt i Føtex for 15 kr. Stout ??? - Den mangler kraft og er mere a la tysk schwarz beer. Øllen er mørkebrun, og har et brunt sæbeagtigt skum, der relativt hurtigt forsvinder. Nå man dufter til den første gang dufter den som en flad Hof. Smagen er dog som en hof der er brændt på. Kulsyren er også som en hof. Ikke en øl, som jeg vil drikke igen.

2.6 Bottle. Weak aroma with a hint of liquorice. Almost black colour, small stable head. The flavour is roasted, perhaps roast barley. Weak liquorice flavour. High carbonation. Quite boring.

2.8 18 Dec 05 - Sweetish roasted malt and some hop aroma. Clear dark brown colour, reasonable head and lacing. Roasted malt flavours but lacks a broader complexity. Up front bitterness that is a bit thin.

2.7 Dark with avergae tan head. Aroma was thin of malts, some oats and light coffee. Some hops kick in at the very end but except for this the flavour is thin without a lot of malt backbone.

2.4 Great appearance in both bottle and glass. The nose is quite absent however but for a faint aroma of roasted malt and some slightly coffee flavour. The taste is better at least in the sense that it does demonstrate some good stout qualities but for mine this falls short in mouthfeel and ABV. The promised broom full of hops also fails to sweep me off my feet. Perhaps as my ratebeeriness grows I find I prefer higher ABV beers in styles that should be assrtive and strong. The Pommie penchant for low alcohol is sometimes a negative as is this one.

3.0 Like Guinness Draught without the full foamy head or palate. Serviceable stout flavour, a small tad of the chocolatey/coffee aroma.

2.9 Aroma: olive, carbon and some hop. Apperance: black with red highlights clear, tan small head, patchy sud lacing. Flavour: carbon, sweet malt, hint of nut and notceable hop bitterness. Palate: bitter/carbon finish and thin. Jokingly my girlfriend has written "god damn HOT label!!!" on my tasting notes since it was visuallly so impressive (despite the clear bottle.)

2.8 Bottle, at home (031031). Black with reddish head. Aroma moderate malty (burnt, licorice) and hoppy. Flavor moderate sweet and bitter.

2.8 Dark clear brownb ale with a thick light oka head. Light sweet chocolate aroma with vanilla notes. Watery stout with diluted chocolate and some light bittering hops. Rather boring. LCBO.

2.4 (Bottle 50 cl) Dark brown, close to black, with a reddish hue and a small, brownish head. Dark, malty roasted notes with a solid dose of bitterness. Presumably brewed with some oats. Not the most impressive stout. 100405

2.1 not much aroma, just a little malt and fruit. tastes better: roasted malt, some bitterness and some fruit, a little grassy. finishes more bitter and grassy. thin bodied. not so good(no coffee: well only a bit in the finishing part, no chocolate, a pity), a bland stout.

2.6 Black body with a off-white head. Has aroma from fruits and some roasted malt. The taste is little bitter and has som coffee taste. Some malt. A boring stout.

1.9 Beige medium head. Pit black. Fruity aroma. Roasted flavour with notes of blackberry. Watery palate Tiny aftertaste.

2.0 Bottle. Dark brown colour with a baige head. Dark fruits, light roasted aroma and a thin light roasted fruity taste. Light body and a boring finish.

2.1 500ml bottle from Sainsbury’s. OK this is it. No more Wychwood beers for me. Don’t care about the ratings anymore. I had one pint of the Prince Albert on cask that was fine, but otherwise, a waste of my drinking capacity. No more. This one has a thin beige head. Dead choc/coffee malt aroma. Some sourness in mouth with bitter choc kicking in. Lacks depth, character and taste. Thanks Wychwood for the variety, but no thanks

3.1 Very dark with a brown small creamy head. Roasted, light sweet aroma. The taste is bitter roasted malt. Quite a good ber but nothing extraordinary.

2.2 Bottled. Dark brown coloured with an off white head. Roasted aroma with notes of anise and liquorice. Roasted flavour. Watery body. Boring.

2.4 A Mes rate: Hmm I’m not particulalry sure how spell binding this is. In fact its pretty poor to be honest. Nothing much going on all round really. The aroma is bland, slight grass and malt but nothing to write home about. Flavour is more of the same. Roasted malty nothingness. Very light bodied. In fact I think it is a bit of a push to call this a Stout. Much more like a watery dark mild. Dont get me wrong it’s not awful, just very bland.

2.7 Bouteille claire de 500 ml achetée à l’ANB de Caraquet, N-B. Arôme: Odeur de chocolat et de café torréfié. Apparence: La couleur est noire presque opaque avec une faible densité de bulle. Présence d’un mince col pétillant mais absence de dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût de café et de chocolat. La durée de l’arrière goût est moyenne. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture minérale. L’effervescence en bouche est moyenne. Présence d’amertume en arrière goût. (Rating #327)

2.1 Pours very dark brown from the bottle (maybe black). No characteristic smell. light to medium body. Not the best thing from the brewery.

2.8 Bouteille-Stout noire avec un semblant de rouge crèmeuse, mousse épaisse. Goût de terre, d’épice et de malte rôti, une stout de deuxième catégorie mais agréable--Bottle-Deep dark red. Thick tan head. Earthy, spicy hop aroma with roast malt. Not a great one but ben plaisant!

2.4 Poured from the bottle, black in colour with a large rocky head. Not a strong aroma, marbe hints of grapes? A bit too bitter throughout the mouth and no really strong flavours coming through. Disappointing.

1.8 Pours a nice black coulour which can give u a head with a short swirl. Aroma is just burnt malt. Taste is similar with no distingwishing features sticking out at all, though a little fruit comes towards the end as with the aroma too. Juts another not so good ale from this brewary.

2.4 Bottle (from Sainsburys). Quite a thin beer with an indistinct roast malt flavour - seems like just enough to add colour. Entirely forgettable.

2.4 Smells burnt, leather, malt, liquorice, chooclate, hops and some pther stuff I can’t remember. Slimy and watery. Unfortunately. It doesn’t taste much. Too...spittly.

2.6 Light aroma: some malt and light hoppiness. Average size frothy off-white head produces good lacing but is fully diminishing. Flavour is lightly bitter with some sweetness in the finish, a little bland, but I enjoy strong flavoured stouts. Average length finish. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

3.2 Bottle (500ml - clear!). Poured a clear, thin-looking dark ruby-brown with an average light brown quick-diminishing head, decent foamy lacing left behind. Bread dough yeast, light chocolate and coffee dark roast malt, a hint of hops, little bit of sour cherry. Taste follows the nose exactly, but starts balanced milk chocolate sweet / hop bitter, finishes more hop bitter with coffee notes dominating. Incredibly thin mouthfeel, not creamy at all ... this is a stout???? Re-rate December 2007 (not clear bottle) - original score 6-3-5-2-12=2.8