3.4 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 14/20
May, JDW, Rochester. Roasty notes in a pleasant mild - dry and thirst quenching with a gentle hop finish lingering. Good.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask at The Regal (JDW), Cambridge. Very dark brown with a small creamy off white head. Ashy leather aroma with a little sweet fruitiness. Very pleasant sweet taste with a little grain and slight bitterness. Pretty good. Enjoyed this with a palatable, if unhealthy, Wetherspoons ’Traditional Breakfast’.
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
Cask conditioned handpump Moon On The Square Northampton. A dark mahogany coloured beer with a whitish pillowy head. The aroma is oaty and bready with toasted malts. The taste is the same and there are crunchy notes. It’s a little thinner than I’d have liked but it’s OK.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Cask at the Monks Retreat (JDW), Reading. Mahogany in colour with a dense beige head; roma of malted milk; smooth and creamy in texture with lightly roasted malt flavours and a touch of smoke; the finish is dry and oaty. An OK mild.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
The Baron, Hinckley. Milky coffee spilt on toilet rug aroma: slight sulphur, dab of butter. Dark ruby with a fine persistent cream head. Butter biscuit dunked in coffee, hints of charred wood and nuts, generous finishing bitterness and smoke. Characterful mild.
3.1 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Cask @ The State. Dark red-brownish colour, dense off-white head. Aroma has a gentle roastiness, some caramel. Flavour is light roasted, hint of coffee and fruits. A bit watery. Slightly bitter finish.
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
cask at guilfordm... golden amber ... sweet diacatal orange fruit hop ... dull soft fruits ... little mellon ... little bitter ... not up to much
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask at the Jolly Butchers, Stoke Newington, London on 5th May 2010. Brown with frothy pale brown head. Full-flavoured maltiness - caramel - and a touch of spice, and a herby/citric tang on the tongue. Slightly creamy/oily mouthfeel. Quite a lot "happening" in this mild.
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