Custom Beers Smooth Mild

Formerly brewed at Custom Beers
Style: Mild Ale
Haywards Heath, England

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Hand pulled at the Wellington, Birmingham. Dark, almost cloudily opaque blackness, with a nice cream head. Wonderful milky consistency in the mouth - smoothness indeed! Superb flavour profile with a wonderful balance. Some smidges of sourness, culminating in a berry middle section, which is juicy. Prickled ashy main body, with a lurking background roast echo. Perfect for the style, as no flavour dominates or is too prounced, rather this is packed with humming melodies of taste. Silky, refreshing lip-smackingly easy to sup and unbelievably subtle in it’s excellence. For a 3.8% beer, this holds the attention from start to finish and leaves a wonderful lingering bitterness in the throat. This really is one to be savoured and it does appear that this relatively new brewery has now hit it’s stride with this gem.

Cask @ Reading Beer Festival 2008.
Dark brown color with a average, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to light beige head. Aroma is light malty, roasted, moderate hoppy pine, grapefruit. Flavor is moderate sweet and moderate to heavy bitter with a long to average duration. Body is medium to light, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is flat. Nice beer but not a mild IMO. (030508)

Cask gravity at Reading BF 08. Black with dark brown edges and a thin beige head. Really chocolatey. But still in good nick, excellent depth of flavour. Velvety in mouth. Tasty and rather woke me up after a poor nights sleep.

A Mes rate: Gravicask at Reading Beer Festival.
Dark brown with a thin white film. Firstly, I like this beer. Second, this is SO not a mild. It’s full of hops. Slight malt in the back ground but this is all hops and bitterness. Nice beer but miles off the style.

Cask Stillage at the Black Horse, Darwen 21/05/2005 Dark and smooth on the palate. Some alcohol present. Some bitterness and roast malt in a crisp finish.