Moorhouses Black Cat (Bottle)

Brewed by Moorhouses
Style: Mild Ale
Burnley, England

Pours a very dark brown with ruby highlights and thin tan head. Aroma is light coffee notes coupled with a toasty tannic quality. Flavor is very roasty but old and semi-metallic. Moderately thin body with medium carbonation. Kinda boring actually.

Bottled, Booths, Windermere. Ruby Red to black in appearance, this a superb example of an English Mild. Nice peaty taste in the back of the throat, giving more than a hint of malt whisky, which becomes quite dominant towards the end, which I’ve never noticed before in the cask version. Low on aroma, but a faint smokiness comes through and, as it warms up, there is a port-like flavour apparent. Quite excellent.

Two Moorhouse beers tried on the same night and this way by far the better of the two...from Asda, pours a lovely dark black with a slight reddish tinge, toffee flavour leading onto burnt malts, fine long finish...one to try again

500 mL bottled shared by Alraomon. Thanks! Pours a very dark chocolate color, appearing black in the glass with a strangely light off color head. aroma of dark fruits and caramel. Taste is dark fruits and slightly roasted malts. Very subtle hop note. Full bodied.

500ml bottle. Garnet pour with a beige head. Roasted malt nose, chocolaty. Flavor is roasted malt and bittersweet chocolate. Simple and solid. Nice lace.

Bottle @ Thorups Ølkælder, Århus.
Pours black with brownish sides, a good, creamy, beige head on top. Sweet aroma, light toffee, some coconut, chocolate. A bit light and slightly watery palate. Pretty fine flavours, roasted, lots of liquorice and some rye bread. Fine, long aftertaste.

Bottle 50cl. @ home.
Clear dark red brown color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, chocolate, moderate to light heavy dark berry’s - prunes, some peat notes special in the finish. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Bitternes is malt and peat bitter. Body is medium to light, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. (160808)

Nose is coffee, cocoa and liquorice, dark brown, small tan head. Taste is a weak coffee, choco/malt combo. Light bodied, slightly bitter. Very good. Thank You Torontoblue.