3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at Bricklayers Arms Yorskhire Festival, 27th February 2009. Smooth, dark ruby brown. Lots of fruitiness on top of a full-bodied maltiness. Good palate.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at Reading Beer Festival 2012. Pours a dark brown colour with a tan head. Roasty malty aroma with hints of caramel, the taste has chocolate and malt with a soft dry finish. One of the best milds I have ever tasted.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
cask at reading ... deep black ... thnin tan head ... soft toffee roast nose...lght coffee ... light sulper ... soft roast ok .. but def ligt sulpher
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask @ 2nd Saltburn Beer Festival. A clear dark red/brown colored beer, with a beige head. The aroma of dark fruits, some coffee with a little hop. The taste of some coffee, sweet dark fruits, with hop bitter. The aftertaste sweet with bitter.
3.9 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Cask at the Bricklayer’s Arms BF, 2011. Dark brown with a creamy, beige head. Aroma has some very hard, dark malts, lightly roasted. Nice flavor, quite sweet and chocolatey, has some mild coffee, creamy, hints of toffee. Light to medium bodied with fine to average carbonation. Finishes very sweet with lots of creamy mocha. A really nice beer overall.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask, gravity dispensed, at the Cambridge Beer Festival. A really tasty mild. Dark chestnut with a thin white head; roasted malt aroma with some chocolate; sweet roasted malt flavour; and a dry chocolate finish.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask@Peterborough Beer Festival, 2009. Blackish brown beer with a mildly hopped and malty aroma. The flavour is milky chocolate. Overall a rich malty and gently chocolaty mild.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask Handpump at the GBBF Earl’s Court, London 09/08/2008
Roast aroma. Dark coloured and smooth on the palate with a little bitterness and fruit flavour in a chocolaty roast finish.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Dark chestnut with a small off-white head. Roasted aroma with chocolate and licorice. Rich and sweet roasted malt flavour with toffee and chocolate, and a slightly burnt edge in the finish
3.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at Wellington Arms, Bedford. The name is definitely Captain ’Oates’: there’s a picture of the Antarctic explorer on the pumpclip. Dark red brown with a small off white head. Chocolate aroma with a whiff of sulphur. Strong taste of cocoa or chocolate. A little plummy sourness as well, or maybe it’s sour milk. Very slight dryness.
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