Heart of Wales Welsh Black

Brewed by Heart of Wales (Neuadd Arms)
Style: Stout
Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys, Wales

Serve in English pint

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Cask@Great Welsh Beer & Cider Festival 2011. Black colour, mediumsized brown head. Aroma is roasted malts, liquorice and some caramel, toffee and mild dark berries. Flavour is roasted malts, caramel, some liquorice and mild grassy notes. Mild coffee and smoked wet wooden notes as welll.

Bottle from Björn, thanks. Thick fluffy brown head. Dark-red color. Fine roasted malty aroma with some dark chrystal notwes. The taste is much harder roasted boardering to harsh together with black coffey taste.

Nice gentle aroma, good healthy mild stout flavour, although only medium bodied.

Bottled. Black, rich head. Roast yand creamy. Dry and mild with some licorice and soft mouthfeel. Hugely drinkable with marked, yet mild roastiness and balanced bitterness.

Gravity, Coventry 2011. Type of beer that makes me think there might be some kind of covert scene going on somewhere in Wales. Mahogany with a yellowed tan head going nowhere. Aroma lightly smoked peat and grilled aubergine. Condition is thick and moussey; taste is slightly dank aubergine, ink (only have the occasional half) and peat dusted with drinking chocolate. Beautiful. Might just give that English muck a miss in future.

cask at NWAF ... deep black.. soft roast malt nose ... soft juicy roast malts ... light charcal ... little soapy pine hop ... light but there ... hint of coffee

Gravity at the 2009 Great Welsh Beer Festival, pours a dark red-brown with a coarse beige head. The nose has apples, toffee and lots of black treacle. Quite light bodied, with a dry, slightly vinous taste and a long dry bitter finish that doesn’t match up to the promise of the aroma - a bit one-dimensional.

Cask Handpump at the Ship & Mitre, Liverpool 27/04/2007 Some oat aroma. Tan head. Black and slightly strong with a bitter treacle roast finish. ABV 4.4%