Banks’s Mild / Original (Cask)

Brewed by Banks’s (Marstons plc)
Style: Bitter
Wolverhampton, England

Serve in English pint

Clear redish amber with a thick creamy lasting off white head. Smell of malt ripe fruit (apple) wood and caramel. Med sweetness with a light bitter and slight sour aftertaste. Dark berries, sweet malt, light caramel and ripe fruit. Oily with a medium body.

cask @ GBBF 2011. Pours a clear dark amber color with a small off-white head. Has a slightly roasted malty caramel aroma with weak hoppy hints. Fruity malty caramel toffee flavor. Has a fruity malty caramel finish with some weak hoppy hints.

Half pint at the Twickenham Beer Festival 2011. Dark amber/brown, little or no head. Excellent sour grape aroma. Slightly sour, on a cereal/oatey base. Smells better than it tastes unfortunately. A bit dull really, but not particularly bad.

Cask/gravity at Twickenham beer festival. Black with a thin head, aroma of a little molasses and roast malt, quite a full body for such a lightish beer, roasty with port wine hints and a touch of dark xmas pudding, dry lightly bitter finish. Very nice mild.

Middle range mild, but still drinkable, with a decent body and texture to this ale.

Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 2011, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.

Clear dark amber colour with a average to large, creamy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, dusty grain, toffee. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average duration. Body is medium, texture is oily and smooth, carbonation is soft to flat. [20110804]

Cask @ GBBF, 2011. Pours clear amber with a creamy white head and lacings. A bit watery. Grain, bread and caramel.

Cask at GBBF 2011, Wednesday. Clear brown - white head. Buttery, roasted, caramel, fatness, herbal, tobacco, light sweetness, grassy, light grape fruits.