3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask Handpump at the GBBF, Earl’s Court 06/08/2010 (As Mild)
Caramel malt aroma. Amber mid brown coloured and very smooth on the palate with a hint of dryness in a nutty malt finish.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
On cask at Southampton Arms - August 19, 2011. Very dark ruby-black with an average beige head. Roasty aroma, treacle, raisin and light floral bitterness. Taste has a hint of cola syrup - hops are more forward, and somewhat more herbal, but it’s sweeter at the same time, some cold sweetened coffee. Watery, light body, no astringency, virtually still, but very roasty - the bitterness balances it out nicely; decent but not awesome mild.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (GBBF2010)
6 Sweet bready aroma - mashy
4 Deep reddy brown, small head.
6 Simple sweet mashy taste
3 Refreshing palate, carbonation low. Finish roasted and sweet.
13 Simple mild, tasty and sessionable.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
From cask. Pours clear and golden amber woth a creamy, off-white and dense head. Aroma is fruity and roasted malt. Roasted malt and bitter flavoured. Subdued fruity note. Ends dry and malty.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask@GBBF2010. Deep ambery brown colour, mediumsized creamy beige head. Aroma is bready and fruity along with some mild leathery notes. Flavour is bready, plummy, dark dry fruity, mildly toasted as well as slightly ashy.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at GBBF 2010. A brown beer with a yellowish head. The aroma has notes of malt and caramel. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and caramel as well as lighter notes of nuts.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2010, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.
Clear medium brown amber color with a average to large, frothy to creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate to light heavy malty, toasted - caramel, ryebread (rugbroed), light roasted. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration, rye, cream caramel. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat. [20100806]
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Nitrokeg at the Habberley Social Club, Kidderminster. Pours An extremely dark brown with a large tan head. Aroma was coffee, a bot faint. Taste started with some coffee and watery chocolate in the finish. Thin in the mouth but it is low strength. Just a note, this is a different beer to Banks’s Mild, which should be rated under Banks’s Original.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Keg. Firebug, Leicester. Thin off white head, black body. Chocolate, fruits, liquorice, cola. Light sweetness. Watery, dry finish. Moderate carbonation.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Not cask, The Lime Kilns. Almost stouty dark ruby with a nitrogenous beige collar. Little chance of any aroma escaping that. Maybe a distant puff of cocoa. Mushy dunked milk chocolate digestive flavour with tiny hints of dried fruit and roast. Actually not bad if you want to sink a few pints of something tasting of slightly more than nothing, and still make perfect sense afterwards.
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