Waen Blackberry Stout

Brewed by Waen
Style: Stout
Caersws, Wales

Serve in English pint, Shaker, Snifter

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030413. Bottle at home. Pours black with a nice head. Aroma chocolate, coffee, biscuit. Not that blackberryish though. Has a dough like feel to it. Very nice considering the ABV and Not Bad.

500ml bottle. Darkest brown colour with average to huge, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, beige head. Dark malty aroma with a roasty touch, fruity notes of red and dark berries, a soy sauce-like spicy touch. Taste is spicy dark malty, minimally salty, roasty notes with a touch of coffee appear in the dry finish; soft carbonation, soft palate.

Hand-pulled half-pint in the excellent Cock Hotel, Wellington on 18 Apr 2013. Dark brown, almost black: a deep ruby red hue when held up to a strong light source. Good creamy head which produced some good heavy lacing. Dark chocolate with coffee and liquorice notes in the nose and taste, rich for such a low alcohol beer and very flavoursome also. The finish is dry and semi-bitter. Impressed.

Cask by handpump, one-third pint at the Ship and Mitre. Coal dark body, low layer at the top, dotted spots to the glassware. Dark chocolate nose added by coffee notes. Earthy malts in flavour with a touch of dark chocolate. Dry, roasted bitter ending. Not thin at all. Pretty nice even though the blackberry was absent (Liverpool, 08.04.2013).

On gravity at Gloucester beer festival, 23/3/2013. Dark brown with a slight, off-white head. Roasty, charred malts, a touch of bitter chocolate and a hint of blackberry in the finish. A bit dull.

Poured a dark brown with a frothy tan head. Aroma of roast malt and bitter coffee. Medium body, flavour as per the aroma but quite restrained. Not much sign of any blackberry really, perhaps a hint in the aftertaste.

This stout from Wales has only a slight aroma of blackberries and hardly any flavour of them. The stout as a general is really good with strong flavours of malts and chocolate which compliment each other well however it was slightly under eventful when being drunk. As a stout alone it was really pleasant to drink.

Cask at the Sussex Arms, Twickenham Green, 12/01/13. Mid black with a thin tan head, good lacing ensues. Nose is light roast malt, berry fruits, touch of liqourice. Taste follows, molasses, hint of chocolate, berry fruit flavour seems a tad artificial but it’s fairly subtle so doesn’t detract from the general stoutiness! Medium bodied, moderate carbonation, dry finish. Ok.

Cask at GBBF 2012, London. Pours clear brown with a fint, tan cream head. Dark toast nose with hints of cocoa, dark berries. Light sweet flavor with faint toast, heavy charred malts and cigarette butts. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Faintly sweet finish with lots more burnt malts, leaves and cigarette butts. OK.

Cask @ GBBF ’12. Deep brown color with no head. The nose is light coffee and vinous fruits, blackberry. The taste is thin raspberry syrup, chocolate, coffee. Light, a bit watery. Not bad for the low ABV.