Bluegrass English Mild

Brewed by Bluegrass Brewing Company
Style: Mild Ale
Louisville, Kentucky USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

(Draught) Pours a clear golden body with a medium cream head. Aroma of earth, grass, and caramel. Flavor of roasted malt, earth, grass, and nuts with light bitterness in the finish.

Cask Stillage from the Jug at the GABF, Colorado Convention Center 26/09/2009 Floral aroma. Bronze coloured smooth on the palate and malty with a crisp and slightly bitter earthy malt finish. My last pour at this year’s GABF.

This draft brew from a beer bar poured a large sized head of foamy fine to large sized off-white colored bubbles that were mostly lasting and left behind a transparent softly carbonated copper brown colored body and a poor lacing. The mild aroma was malty and metallic. The crisp mouth feel was weakly tingly at the start and at the finish. The good flavor contained notes of nutty and brown malt. A decent one that I would consider buying again.

Draft at the brewpub. Pours light brown with some red hues and off white head. The hose has some dusty roasted nutty malts, and an earthy herbal hop note. Nutty flavors but its pretty short lived. Light body and easy to drink.

Draft sample at Keg Fest of Ale. Poured clear brown color an average frothy off-white head that diminished slowly with good lacing. Moderate sweet roasted malt and earthy hop aroma. Medium body with a slick texture and soft carbonation. Moderate balanced bittersweet flavor and medium pine bittersweet finish of moderate duration.

On tap

While kicking back and watching Kragthorpe attempt to throw away another game I had a pint of this. Not having had too many milds it is hard to judge if was done well or not. It certainly seems like the type of beer that you could drink all night with no ill effects. The presence of flavor and character immediately gives it a bump over most kolschs.

Aroma / Appearance - The color of a darkly stained mahogany colored body smelled of wood stain, light fruit and gentle hops. It was very easy on the senses as I would expect such a low alcohol beer to be.

Flavor / Palate - The taste of soft velvety chocolate made this very appealing from the first sip. Malts and hops blend smoothly before a pine finish that hides in the throat. Very balanced and sessionable this is a style that I wish was more readily available outside England. More like tea than beer it would go perfectly with almost anything.