Alcazar Black Fox

Brewed by Alcazar
Style: Mild Ale
Nottingham, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Cask at The Wellington, Birmingham. Very very dark amber - almost black. Short, dissipating, off-white foamy head. Sweet with lots of toffee in the nose, caramel and vanilla malts in the mouth. A little watery.

Cask (handpull) at the Fox & Crown, Basford. Its ruddy black. Its a bit thin. Its a little sweet. Its mild.

Cask Stillage at the Town Hall, Stockport 01/06/2001 Dark brown mild with some fruit and a malty finish.

Cask @ Reading Beer Festival. Buttery black beer hat is smooth and tastes ashy. Unremarkable dark mild.

Cask@Reading BF. Nice soft mouthfeel. Lightly roasted flavour, with some soft cutting acidity, an innofensive dark mild.

Gravity at Reading Beer Fest, with Kook, Duff, Chris_o and Joeh. Red hued black, no head. Medium paced black beer. Friendly easy drinking, dark, sweet and balanced. Nice, but not greatly challenging.

Deep brown colour with a ruby tinge. Not as dark as some. I thought I picked up some smoky notes lurking beneath the roast malt on the nose, but I was suffering from a heavy cold, so I was struggling with aromas. The palate was dry and had a slightly mineral/ashy consistency (which I found in a number of the milds at this festival). Light bodied. A decent, traditional, easy drinking mild but nothing really leapt out. Then it is a mild so it wouldn’t be fair to criticise it for not being an attention-grabber. Cask (gravity), Reading beer festival 2005.

Roasty grain aroma. Black with no head. Roast flavour dominates with some cara and choc notes. Quite dry. Medium bodied, ok.