Cains Dark Mild (Keg/Can)

Brewed by Cains
Style: Mild Ale
Liverpool, England

Serve in English pint

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Opaque black with a thin tan head. Medium body with light carbonation.

Aroma: chocolate, roast malt, dark bread, woodsy hops.

Taste: hop bitterness, pale malt, stale chocolate.

Sort of a like a bitter and porter mixed.

light chocolate taste and licorice notes, very black and a surprisingly full body.

This is a great 3.2 beer. Pours a dark brown with a small tan head. This beer is creamy goodness, it has a sweet and roasted dark malt flavor. There is also a great chocolate and coffee taste with a yummy hoppy under tone. The only negative to this beer is it is slightly watered down.

From a tin. Excellent dark mild. Black with a bubbly white head. Lovely coffee flavours with sweet drying malt and mild bitterness on the finish

14.9oz can into a pint glass. Date of August 23, 2012 on the bottom. Presumably a best by date. An aggressive pour yields a half finger tan head although with very good retention. Aroma is definitely metallic but smelling past that, chocolate and coffee dominate with some sweet caramel in the background. The taste has none of the metal present in the aroma. Bitter coffee and dark chocolate followed by a little bit of burnt caramel. Very drying bitterness much like strong coffee. In fact, this beer is very espresso-like. A little bit of nutty-ness and dried fruit but it is very faint. Mouthfeel is thin as to be expected but not as bad as I was fearing. Overall, a very, very impressive beer for only being 3.2%. Tons more flavor than any light beer on the market. This is a beer you could literally sip on all day. Oh how I wish we could get more beers like this in the states. I would buy case loads!

Can from Asda, Perry Barr, Birmingham. Delicious aroma, of slight hops. Thick lacing, from a small head. Smooth, grainy and insistently cocoa tinged beer. Slightly stouty Mild. Black. A big and good Mild. Mmmm

Delighted to find a mild on tap here in the US. Very, very dark brown. Aroma is toffee and chocolate, with a touch of floral hops. Flavor is a match. Full bodied, but clearly low in alcohol. Just like it should be. Really nice. Probably better than these numbers indicate.

Can. Pours dark brown with a tan head. Smells of caramel, earthy, some chocolatey hints. Tastes of caramel, some tea, roasted malt, touches of bitterness on the finish. Full bodied.

draft @ redlight redlight. Poured on beer gas through a stout faucet. Pours a muddy beige and cascades to a very dark brown almost black with a dense beige head. Malty sweetness on the nose with caramel and a slight mineral aroma. Dark caramelized malts with hints of molasses and just a slight hint of anise in the flavor, there is some herbal hop notes to balance it with a minerally finish. Great session beer! I would love to try this on cask, would be even better.

Can - Black body with a somewhat lasting beige head; Very pleasant mild nose with a very pleasant sweet milk chocolate sweet roasted touch; Perfect carbonation on soft textured body with the right fill, balanced bitter; Long mild finish, very well composed aroma, mildly balanced bitter. Very pleasant, very drinkable beer.