Dark Star Victorian Ruby Mild

Brewed by Dark Star
Style: Mild Ale
Horsham, England

Serve in English pint

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Ruby red pour. Medium off white head. Lacing. Malty aroma. Raisins, some hops. Taste is nice bread and malt. Some hop flavor. Slight sweetness mixed a bit of bitterness. Nice beer. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Cask.
Originally rated on 20110802.
Pours copper color with a minimal head. Aroma of fruits, some caramel malts, grass and nutty notes. Flavor of nuts, malts, fruits and hay.

Cask at Bow Bar. Reddish copper pour, nice creamy off-white head, light lacing. Soft roast malt nose, nice stewed fruit, slightly earthy. Lovely complex palate, creamy malt flavours, leather, wood, light fruit, subtle roast, light spiced hop notes with a soft, dry bitter linger. Very nice, definitely the best "mild" (although, is 6% a mild?) I’ve ever had.

21st May 2012
Old Fountain. Clear red - brown beer, nice pale tan head. Smooth palate, slightly soft and with just a touch of dryness. Creamy malt, a little dry. Mild toffee and a mild fruity tang undrneath with equally mild red berry fruits. Smooth finish. Nice mild!

Cask at the Cask and Kitchen. Pours a black colour with a thin tan head. Good malty aroma with a hint of fruit, the taste is malty with some caramel with a dry bitter finish.

Dark color with a brownish head that disappears quickly. The nose is roasted malts, forest fruits, and bitter chocolate. The taste is somewhat acidic and ashy, but still retains a pleasing light sweetness. The body’s a but thin and somewhat watery. Overall, another strong effort from Dark Star.

Half pint at the Sheffield Tap. Dark brown with red highlights and creamy head. Good mild taste with a bit of alcohol too. Aroma is roasted with a bit of nut. A bit sweet and bitter as roastedness leaves the palate. Very nice mild, glad someone’s still making them.

{thoughts} Assertively malty and rich without cloying, though the floral finish feels too light and out of place in this setting.

{elements} Hazy, dark brown hue; firm, light tan froth. Toffee and dark bread malts with notes of chocolate, plums and licorice. Instant, firm, mouth-coating malt sweetness complemented by mildly acidic stone fruit flavors and ending with a soft bitterness and lingering floral and bready aftertaste. Creamy texture, low carbonation, medium body. 50 cl real ale @ O’Connell’s.

Cask @ O’Connell’s, Tampere.
Pours a dark mahogany colour with a white foamy head. Aroma of toasted malts, chestnuts and some sweet fruits. Flavour of quite rich malts, English hops, chocolate, sweet dried fruits and some spices. Rich mouthfeel and a long, bitter, malty and nutty finish. One rich real ale, me likey.

Cask @ O’Connell’s Irish Pub
Forms a head, which is suprising for a real ale. Rather light aroma with sweet malt and caramel. Flavour is malty, slightly spicy and rather rich. Did not expect this kind of richness from a real ale.