Moorhouses Black Cat (Bottle)

Brewed by Moorhouses
Style: Mild Ale
Burnley, England

500mL Bottle. Very dark black ale. Creamy foamy tan head. Musty chocolate aroma. Very musty, like grandma’s closet. Smoke flavor, heavier than I expected. Rich malt flavor. VERY LIGHT. Obvious low alcohol,very watery. but tons of rich malt flavor. Smooth finish.

Bottle. Fairly strong roasty chocolate component some hoppiness. Distinct impression is of thinness. Drinkable but without the life or balance of the cask version.

this could have been a porter based on its profile...very dark brown with a soapy white head...chocolate and toast in the nose, a little bit of smoke and burnt chocolate in the flavor. aftertaste was a little hoppy, and there was very little carbonation. this beer was ok, a decent session beer, but nothing special, nor nothing overly bad.

Smells kind of like chocolate chip cookies. Very watery in body. A style I never tiried before. I would definitely try the stle again but probably not this particular beer. It was average at best. Too smokey for me in flavor. The palate feels like drinking flat cola. It make me think someone poored water into a stout. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poure a clear, dark brown that looked red in the light witha huge, rocky, light tan head that lasted for a while and left excellent lacing. The aroma was of cookies, toasted, roasted and nutty malts, mild coffee, smoke, vanilla, cola and just a touch of carboard. But mostly chocolate chip cookies. The initial flavor was lightly sweet and moderately bitter, while the finish was moderately sweet and heavily bitter. Light to medium body that was watery and flat with a metallic and chalky finish.

opaque in nature. moderate tan head. tastes like watery chocolate with some smoke flavor. it was s’alright

Blackish pour with cherry red tints. Creamy and charred-malt smoky. Assertively bitter and well-roasted in the vein of Cain’s Dark Mild. Earthily roasty with some tempering fudginess. "Oaky", says Helen. Good character for a bottled 3.4 percenter, but possibly not Champion Beer Of Britain.

This bottle is ancient. Aroma of berries over lightly toasted malt. Almost opaque, but in front of halogen it’s a beautiful ruby red. The beige head hardly exists. Starts with light berry, moves to roasted malts, berries make a comeback, and the end is toasted malt with some standup hop. Medium mouthfeel. I’d say the berry is blackberry if anything. A dry finish. Amazing. I think having the bottle for 5 years or so may have allowed some flavor development. I certainly don’t recall this complexity the last time I tried it.

Moorehouse’s Black Cat. A very attractive odd shaped 22.9 oz brown bottle, just a little more than a bomber. Has a slight roasted malt aroma. Pouring it into the mug yields a very nice dark brew that is almost opaque. The first tase of this brew makes you immediately think you got an imperial stout, but as soon as you start thinking that, it goes into a mild stout palate. Does not have any of the offensiveness that I was preparing myself for. Definitely the qualities of a stout but not the mephitic qualities. If you like stout, you better check into this even tho it is classified as mild ale. The carbonation is not clangorous but it is present and creamy. Now that I’m looking over my list I see that this is my first mild ale. I think I like this style. This beer is very enjoyable and easy to like. The finish builds to a mild bitterness that hangs around for a while but it is nothing caitiff like those imperial stouts. Most everything about this brew is a positive. I think I have found a new style of beer that I can really sink my palate into. I’ll be looking for more of these mild ales, I wonder if they are all this enjoyable.