3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Cask handpull, The Hillsborough Hotel, Sheffield- A Beer For Every Year Crawl. Dark ruby with a dense foamy tan head. Good earthy, toasty aroma dusting with coal and coffee. Excellent balance of orange tangy hop running under charcoal and coffee dregs. Hopped-up, tasty, savoury mild- certainly in the top 5 beers of the day.
3.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Cask at the Hillsborough Hotel. Beautiful dark colour and strong nutty flavour. A solid beer.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask (handpump) @ Hillsborough Hotel, 54-58 Langsett Road, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England S6 2UB.
Clear dark brown color with a average, frothy to creamy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, dark roasted, burnt, burnt coffee. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20090417]
3.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Comes across as more of a light porter than a dark mild. An ale not damaged by being pushed through a tight sparkler. Served on cask at the Hillsborough Hotel.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask handpull at the Rotherham Oakwood Beer Festival. Pours a deep brown with a tan head. Aroma is roasty, chocolate, coffee. Flavors are roasted malt, chocolate, a little coffee, with a tiny touch of bitterness in the finish. Smooth.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Cask @ Reading Beer Festival. Smooth dark mild with chocolate and sweetness. I detected sulphur.
2.6 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Cask@Reading BF. Lightly roasty, some lactic acidity. Smooth sweetish, roasted flavour. Not too bad.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
UPDATED: JUN 7, 2005 RE-RATE: hand pulled at the Wellington, Birmingham. Rounded, sguary taste, with some choc pudding. Overt malt finish, with an almost sour feel. Not so smooth as the other Mild sampled tonight and a little more bitter. Just above average and better than last time sampled [7/6/05]
Gravity at Reading Beer Fest, with Kook, Duff, Chris_o and Joeh. Dark beer, no head. Eggy aroma. Some sweet roast, but mixed in with the sulphury badness. Shows promise, but loses out cos of bad condition. [2/5/05 - 2.6]
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
Roasty aroma, with maybe a hint of coffee. Deep brown colour - not quite opaque. It had that ashy mouthfeel that I noted in a number of the milds at this festival. OK, but unexciting. Cask (gravity dispense), Reading Beer Festival 2005.
1.8 AROMA 3/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Ashy tar aroma. Black in colour. Roaste taste, a bit tart too. Chalky mouthfeel. Drinkable but not great.
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