Crown Wheat Stout

Formerly brewed at Crown
Style: Stout
Sheffield, England

Serve in English pint

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Bottle from The Hillsborough Hotel drank back at The Penguin. Alluring tar pour; glossy with a filthy, Baileys-hued swell of foam. Immediately jammy aroma swimming with plum, blackcurrants and cream- then the Neopolitan ice cream, burnt toast and high cocoa kicks in. WHAT a lip-smacking, discreetly pungent stout- as MesandSim point out, with elusive Belgian leanings (yeast?). Some corking jammy fruit dolloped over burnt toast and high cocoa malts here. Bit fizzy, but what the hell. Beer of My Birthday.

Bottle thanks to fonefan: Pours an oily opaque with a rich froth of dark beige head. Has a sweet rich toasty wheat and caramel malty nose with some dark chocolate and molasses. Starts with pretty good fullness and effervescent carbonation with some sweet doughy wheaty notes, some raisins, roasty coffee and bittersweet chocolate toward the finish. A pretty unique and enjoyable stout.

A Mes rate. Bottle at the Rake thanks to Mario.
Pitch black pour with a thin tan head that diminishes all too quickly. A really interesting snout. Lots of deep malty goodness, nicely roasted and a hint of vanilla and liquorice. The flavour follows on along pretty similar lines. The wheat sneaks through out of the blackness really well and gives up some pleasant estery notes and more vanilla. Dry and roasty in the finish with some late yeasty character. Something decidedly European about it. Can’t quite put my finger on it. Reminds me a lot of Buffalo stout for instance. Good stuff for certain. Enjoyable and just different enought to be really interesting.

Black with a medium deep beige head. Sweet aroma with hard roasted malt, coffee and dark chocolate. Flavour was sweet with hard roasted malt, coffee, dark chocolate and liquerice.

Bottled. A pitch black beer with a dark brown fast collapsing head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, soy sauce, and some candy sugar. The flavor is sweet roasted with notes of wood, wheat, and some soy sauce, leading to a dry roasted and wheated finish.

Bottle, 6.6%. Fruity aroma, slightly farty, a bit of metal. Almost black colour, red shine. Good stable brown head. The flavour is bready and salty with a strangely roasted note. A bit of soy in the finish. I do not really like this one.

Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of fonefan. Pours an opaque black with a dense and creamy light brown head. Hard roasted malt in the nose. Medium body, a little vanilla, rather burned malts and licorice with a vague underlying tartness. Rather malt bitter finish. Well crafted. 190210

Bottle 33cl.
Clear dark dark brown color with a large, creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, cold coffee, wheaty - oaty, light yeasty. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20090717]

Bottle. Stout black...roasted malts and coffee. Liquorice, chewy toffee malt, sweet red fruits, a different stout.

RBESG Sheffield, day 2, Hillsborough Hotel. Bottle. Pitch black, brown head.Roasted malt aroma with a touch of wheat and some ripe red fruit. Flavor is sweet. lots of coffee, wheat and chocolate. Quite interesting.