Crouch Vale Blackwater Mild

Brewed by Crouch Vale
Style: Mild Ale
South Woodham Ferrers, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Cask - Unicorn Inn, Canterbury. A very dark brown colour with a creamy, small though slowly dissipating off-white head, leaving a nice smooth surface and glass lacing. Some roasted malts, chocolate and light fruit tones on the nose. A combination of tobacco and fruits form the flavour profile. A soft, delicate palate texture with a lasting roasted bitter finish. A tasty, moreish mild. Nothing mindblowing, but I could easily have had pint after pint of this.

A - sweet caramel, fruit and light coffee A - dark with thin head T - light sweet and bitter P - mid to full O - o.k.

First tasted this in the Bull Inn, Paisley in June 1994. Cask, handpump dispense. Dull black in colour with dark ruby highlights and a thin buff head. Strong roast malt in the long aroma. Thin oily mouthfeel and good lacing. Dark malts give a rich roast malt with black toast, this fades to give a sweet caramel and molasses flavour. Dusty hop resins gives a dry bitter aftertaste and this continues into a dry smokey almond finish. An excellent mild.

Cask@The Elm Tree, Cambridge. Very deep amber colour, close to black, with a mediumsized beige head. Aroma is mild toasted notes, some fruits, quite sweet as well as mild maltyness. Flavour is mild roasted malts, some toasted notes as well as some dark berries and slight wooden notes.

Cask at the Harp. Black-brown pour with a soft head. Chalky, roasted malts on the nose. Faint sweet flavor, dry roasted malts, some leafy bitterness. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Some burnt sugar in the finish, dry roast, slight ash. Not bad.

Necked half with minutes to kick-off, The Golden Eagle, Lincoln. Mahogany with a cream top. Vague burnt wood aroma. Dribble of blackcurrant and cranberry under a wisp of smoke. Decent crumb of chocolate afters. Ordinary, but Beer of The Day So Far..

Cask at Ascot Festival 2010. A deep brown colour with a thin white head. Plenty of roast malt in the aroma, taste is very malty and plenty of fruit, and a good dry finish.

From cask at Wenlock Arms. Pours pitch black with a small tan head. Aroma is dark malty and roasted breadish, mild fruity note. Bitter, vague citric and fruity hoppy shining through. Vague chocolate note coming through. Ends dry, bitter and slight citric.

Cask at the Live and Let Live, Cambridge. Deep ruby red colour with a cream head; the aroma is nutty and malty; thinly bodied with sweet chocolate malt flavours; the finish is sweet, oily and gently bitter.

Cask @ Wenlock Arms London. An almost black colored beer, with a light beige small head. The aroma of a little chocolate with fruits and some bitter. The taste is gentle bitter with sweets of fruits and some chocolate. The aftertaste is dry with some bitter.