Bushys Ruby 1874 Mild

Brewed by Bushy’s (Mount Murray Brewing)
Style: Mild Ale
Douglas, Isle of Man

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Gravity, Reading Beer Festival. Dark murky brown with a murky dark brown flavour backed up by murky dark brown spice. Interesting, but not encouraging.

A - light caramel, fruit and coffee A - copper with frothy head T - sweet with light roasted bitter P - mid and soft O - decent

Tasted this full bodied mild at the Troon Beer Festival in September 2004. Cask, gravity dispense. Ruby black in colour with a thin creamy white head. Good full aroma of chocolate and raisins. Creamy texture to the mouthfeel and good lacing. Dark malts give a complex range of flavours with roast coffee, milk chocolate, hobnob biscuits and juicy raisins. Slight hop prickle noted in the short aftertaste. Finish is rich and robust with syrupy dates and warming port notes. A superb mild that tastes like a strong 5% old ale - excellent and worth trying to find.

Cask at GBBF 2010. An amber beer with no head. The aroma has notes of malt, caramel, and nuts. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt and caramel, leading to a bitter finish.

Cask conditioned at Banbury Beer Fest ’11. Dark brown with tan head. Dark roasted malts, some coffee hints, a touch watery and quite an odd flowery note, presumably from the hops. Easy on the palate though and drinkable enough.

Cask @ 3 Judges. Mahogany colour tan head. Aroma is light roasted malts and a bit of toffee. Flavour is roasted malts, light fruity, hint of coffee. Slightly sweet and bitter. Superb drinkable.

Cask (handpump) @ GBBF 10, Great British Beer Festival, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England.

Clear medium to dark red brown color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, light chocolate. Flavor is moderate to light heavy sweet and light to light moderate bitter with a average to long duration, chocolate, nutty, fruity. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is soft. [20100803]

Cask at GBBf 2010. Pours a good ruby colour, mildly fruity aroma, with berries and caramel. Plenty of malt in the taste.

Cask@GBBF2010. Amber colour, not much head. Aroma is fruits, wood, earth and some nutty and grassy notes. Flavour is fruits, wood, floral hops as well as mild earthyness and some mild toasted notes.

From cask. Pours dark brown with a small white head. Aroma is roasted malty. Fruity, malty and light roasted. Bitter and fruity. Fruity finish, light sweet.

Gravity cask at Pig’s Ear festival on 2nd December 2009. Red with ladting yellow-tinged head of foam. Strong caramelly malt with nuttiness and one or two savoury notes. A slightly saline mouthfeel. A refreshing and engaging mild.