Beer Works Allston Mild

Brewed by Salem Beer Works
Style: Mild Ale
Salem, Massachusetts USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Draft. Dark amber color. Very thin tasting and not much else to it. The best thing about it is it's appearance.

On tap in Salem, labled Marblehead Mild. Deep amber with a thin head, sweet malty aroma, funky sweet aftertaste, light bodied.

Deep amber in color with a small white head.Sweet and malty,with virtually no hop presented.

nice dark bready mild. underhopped and a pleasantly sweet caramel malt flavour comes through.

Dark in color, with a creamy taste. i liked this one a lot. although, i only tried the sampler.

Cask version: This was a lot different than the kegged version, and I generally agree with Nutfield, that it was a much creamier and smoother beer. However, the drastic temperature difference between the two might make it hard to make a complete side by side comparison (cask beers generally being warm).

Keg version: Good as far as mild’s go I suppose, something which my lower than normal rating might reflect. I find it hard to objectively judge styles that I generally don’t care for though. My suggestion is to try it yourself, perhaps do what I did and get it in a 4oz sampler. (keg rating 3.0)

Cask version: It was nice to have this side-by-side with the non-cask version: there ARE differences between these two. Much smoother, creamier, with a frothy and substantial head. Although, the carbonation is too intrusive here. Still, some nice flavors emerging (as with the non-cask Mild).

Keg version: Little aroma (true to form for a mild) but on tasting there’s something nice going on here. I wouldn’t call it maltiness, but there are caramel overtones. Served too cold. Hint of red in the color. Keg rating 2.7