Arbor Inferiority Complex

Brewed by Arbor
Style: Mild Ale
Bristol, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Cask (gravity) @ The 17th Reading Beer and Cider Festival 2011, Reading, Berkshire England.

Clear dark red brown colour with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, chocolate malt. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration, dark roasted, roasted, malt bitter, coffee notes. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110430]

Cask (Cask Pub & Kitchen, London) - Dark brown with red tinges. Chocolatey and fruity aroma with notes of marzipan and dried fruit. Fruity, tangy, chocolatey and hoppy taste with notes of chocolate, marzipan and dried fruit.

Cask@Craft Beer Co, London. Deep amber colour, small white head. Aroma is caramel, nuts and some fruityness as well as mild dark berries. Flavour is dark fruits, dark berries, some floral notes as well as quite big on the hoppyness in the finish.

Cask conditioned at The Craft Beer Co. Clerkenwell, Gt London. Chestnut with an off white head. A really complex beer, is it a Mild? Full of bitterness, hops and quite nutty in character. Some barley grain flavour, really quite enjoyable.

Factoberfest 2011 A reimagined mild but packed full of resinous and aromatic floral notes from the blend of hops from all the usual suspects finishing with a dry and bitter aftertaste. Tonnes of flavour for its 3.4%.

Cask at Craft Beer Co. It pours very dark brown, with a thin light beige head. The nose is latte, caramel, light roasted malt, wood, light spice and liquorice. The taste is lactose, filter coffee, earth, light spice, roasted malt, wood and cracked black pepper, with a dry, spicy finish. Light body and soft carbonation. Decent.

Cask at The Euston Tap, London. Pours light brown with a tight, off-white head. Has a very pleasant aroma with notes of milk chocolate and ground coffee. Flavor has a nice and roasty flavor with light sweetness and some burned wood bitterness. Yep, lots of burnt wood, almost to an abrasive extent. Light bodied with fine carbonation. Roasted malt finish, some baking cocoa, a bit of coffee, very faint sugars but some lingering, earthy bitterness. Not bad.

Pint at Hobgoblin. Nicely rich and roasted with a bit of chocolate to it. Black beer with little head. Aroma is light roasted, not very evident and lacks complexity. Enjoyable but fairly simple. Has more body than a lot of milds.

Gravity, Leicester 2011. Deep, copper-glinting ruby with wisps of head. Inviting blackcurrant and toast aroma. Good soapy blackcurrant and orange hop on milk chocolate Hobnob; burnt toast sprinkles, pistachio. Bitter hop and ash finish. Top drop.

Cask-conditioned at the Three Tuns, Bristol 4/03/2011. Deep brown in colour with a decent, off-white head. Sweet, berry fruits and caramel aroma with a touch of roastiness and grassy hop. Flavour was similar, with a dash of chocolate and moderately bitter finish. Good.