Tasting Notes: Wychwood Black Wych

Wychwood Black WychBrewery: Wychwood
Location: Witney, Oxfordshire, England
ABV: 5.0%
Version: Bottled
Source: Morrison’s

Black Wych is the one stout in Wychwood’s regular stable of bottled beers and weighs in at a respectable 5% ABV. Cracking the bottle releases a pleasing coffee aroma and the beer pours well: almost opaque with a thick tan head. A creamy mouth-feel carries burnt toffee and dark chocolate flavours giving Black Wych a bitter-sweet character that’s quite palatable.

All in all, a tasty and interestingly flavoured stout. Perhaps not quite as tantalising as the likes of Meantime London Stout, Outstanding Stout, or some of the stronger and more robust stouts that I’ve tried recently – and I don’t think it’s a contender in my quest to find the best damn stout in the world – but it would make for a fine session beer. I certainly wouldn’t hesitate to sink a few on draught if the opportunity arose.

  • Phil Strack

    Hey Darren-
    Great blog…I’ve not tried the the Black Wych stout but have managed to get my hands on a couple of bottles of Fiddler’s Elbow, Hobgoblin, and Circle Master and all we’re quite good. I’ve only found one shop here in the states (Cape Cod, Massachusetts…not terribly convenient to my home north of Boston) to carry the aforementioned Wychwood products so availability is pretty scarce. I think next time I’m in the UK I’ll have to seek ot the rest.

    Cheers

  • http://www.edash.wordpress.com Ed Ashby

    I’ve had Black Wych a few times and enjoyed it, but for some reason it’s 1 of only 2 (the other is Beewyched) of their regulars that is very difficult to get here. Sainsburys very occasionally, and we’re talking once every few years in the branch I frequent, get stock in but that’s about it.

  • DARREN.S.

    Black Wych is so hard to acquire in London and Kent . BUT is the best brew I’ve ever come across . And for the rest , nice to see on the market shelves, so come on Sainsbury’s and Wychwood where’s the BLACK WYCH HIDING …..

  • kirkbeermad

    just thought i would until recently(about a year) i didn’t drink beer at all untill the local wetherspoons had a beer festival.which is where i discovered the taste for all things beer mmmm what have i been missing.tha wychwood brewery has fast become a faveourite of mine and the blackwych stout along side hobgoblin are the beers that keep me warm at night.black wych a great beer for allm occassions

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